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Programme
Day One: Monday 15th October 2007 | 2.00pm - 8.45pm |
| Chair: David Best, Senior Lecturer in Addictions, Department of Psychiatry, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, Birmingham (biography). |
| 12.30 |
Registration |
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Plenary session: composition of drugs and sharing works
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| 2.00 |
Main Hall
Welcome and introduction
Chair: Dr David Best, Senior Lecturer in Addictions, Department of Psychiatry, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, Birmingham |
| 2.15 |
Composition of the drugs people are injecting: what we know, what we think, and what the media tell us…
Ross Coomber, Reader in Sociology and Head of Sociology and Social Policy Subject Group, School of Law and Social Science, University of Plymouth |
| 2.40 |
People say they don’t want to share, but they do. Why?
Noel Craine, Research Scientist, NPHS Microbiology Bangor, Wales |
| 3.10 |
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Parallel sessions |
| 3.45 |
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Main Hall
Young people and needle exchange: when and how should we provide a needle exchange service? When and how should we give young people blood borne virus (BBV) advice?
Danny Morris, Development Manager, Drug Services, Herefordshire PCT & Independent Trainer and Consultant
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Wound care, hepatitis B & sex work
Chair: Chris Ford, GP & SMMGP Clinical Lead
- Injection, infection, inspection - developing wound care in needle exchange
Rich Luck, Needle Exchange Team Leader & Gemma Hancock, Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist, The Cambridge Centre, Scarborough
- Implementing a hepatitis B vaccination programme for intravenous drug users in a semi-rural location
Julie Barton, Nurse Health Advisor, Sussex Partnership NHS Trust
- Hidden for survival
Emma, Kellie and Joanne, Peer Research Team 'Voices Heard', South Shields
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A life after drugs - developing policy & best practice for aftercare
Graham Miller, Director, Double Impact Services |
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Peer training and support programmes
Chair: Andrew Preston, Exchange Supplies
- The peer to peer project: changes in injecting drug users' knowledge, attitude and behaviour
Claire Shaw, Researcher at the Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University
& Peter Furlong, Project Co-ordinator, Lighthouse Project, Liverpool
- HMP Parc - peer support drug awareness scheme
Royston Scott, CARAT Team Leader & Susan O'Leary, Integrated Drug Strategy & Treatment Manager, HMP YOI Parc
- Brown & white: harm reduction workshops for crack & heroin IDUs
Sue Whitfield, Deputy Manager, Surrey Harm Reduction Outreach Service
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Implementing the treatment outcomes profile (TOP)
Colin Bradbury, Treatment Delivery Manager, National Treatment Agency |
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Complications of neck injecting
Jon Derricott, Exchange Supplies & Neil Hunt, Director of Research, KCA & Honorary Senior Research Associate at the European Institute for of Social Services, University of Kent |
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Plenary session: performance enhancing drugs and providing naloxone |
| 4.50 |
Main Hall
Insulin use by body-builders
William Llewelyn, USA, Author of the body-builders bible ‘Anabolics 2007’ |
| 5.30 |
Performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDS): reasons, risks and responses
Paul Dillon, Information/Media Liaison Manager, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW, Sydney |
| 5.55 |
Providing naloxone to reduce drug-related deaths
Sarz Maxwell, Medical Director, Chicago Recovery Alliance, USA |
| 6.20 |
Reducing drug-related harm: an action plan
Hugo Luck, Quality Manager, National Treatment Agency |
| 6.35 |
Welcome to the city from the Lord Provost of Glasgow
Civic drinks reception |
| 6.40 |
Conference evening meal
Wine and food buffet |
| 7.30 |
Evening fringe meetings |
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Naloxone trials update and networking meeting
Chair: Dr Saket Priyadarshi, Senior Medical Officer, Glasgow Addiction Services
- Naloxone in Glasgow
Carole Hunter, Lead Pharmacist, Glasgow Addiction Services
- The NAC trials, and the wider use of naloxone in the prevention of overdose deaths
David Best, Senior Lecturer in Addictions, Department of Psychiatry, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, Birmingham
- Updates from around the country, and discussion
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Room 5
National Needle Exchange Forum (NNEF) AGM and meeting
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| 8.45 |
Close |
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Day Two: Tuesday 16th October 2007 | 9.00am - 3.20pm |
| Chair: Jenny Scott, Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, University of Bath (biography). |
| 7.30 |
Registration |
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Plenary session: NES provision |
| 9.00 |
Main Hall
Welcome and introduction
Jenny Scott, Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, University of Bath |
| 9.05 |
The prevention of infectious diseases in drug users: the experience of working in Harlem
David Vlahov, Director for the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies at the New York Academy of Medicine and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Mailman at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University |
| 9.30 |
Needle exchange in custody suites and minor injuries units
Nick Fuller, Charge Nurse, Tayside Harm Reduction Service, Dundee |
| 9.50 |
Vending machines in North Wales: what really happened
Noel Craine, Research Scientist, NPHS Microbiology Bangor, Wales |
| 10.05 |
Using commissioning and contracting to review and improve services
Gary Wallace, Plymouth Drug and Alcohol Action Team Manager, Public Dispensary, Plymouth |
| 10.25 |
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Parallel sessions |
| 11.00 |
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Main Hall
Pharmacy needle exchange delivery models: getting the mix right
Claire Shepherd, Pharmacy Coordinator, Leeds PCT |
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Homelessness and drug related risk & harm
Chair - Jon Derricott, Exchange Supplies
- The effects of opiate substitution treatment and homelessness on hepatitis C virus incidence amongst drug injectors
Noel Craine, Research Scientist, NPHS Microbiology Bangor, Wales
- Down and out of it: high levels of drug-related risk and harm among homeless IDUs in Manchester
Russell Newcombe, Senior Researcher, Lifeline, Liverpool
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Running mobile services - needle exchange and methadone
Sarz Mazwell, Medical Director, Chicago Recovery Alliance, USA |
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Dealing with the media: experience from Australia
Paul Dillon, Information/Media Liaison Manager, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW, Sydney |
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Discussing, testing and thinking about hepatitis A, B & C and HIV: getting it right in practice
Chris Ford, GP & SMMGP Clinical Lead |
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Drug consumption room pilots: needed now, possible tomorrow?
Chair: Mike McCarron, National Drugs Officer, Scottish Association of Alcohol and Drug Action Teams/Scotland's Futures Forum.
Neil Hunt, Advisor and Secretary of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Independent Working Group on Drug Consumption Rooms |
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Parallel sessions |
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Injecting drug use: myth, fact and opinion
An interactive quiz, poll and discussion covering a range of issues
Jim McVeigh, Head of Substance Use and Reader in Substance Use Epidemiology, Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University & Martin Chandler, Inter Agency Drug Misuse Database Manager, Centre for Public Health in Liverpool, John Moores University
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Supplying paraphernalia
Chair: Danny Morris, Development Manager, Drug Services, Herefordshire PCT & Independent Trainer and Consultant
- The Introduction of foil into needle exchanges
Rachael Pizzey, Team Leader, Turning Point, Somerset
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Treatment of infectious diseases in drug users: challenges of access, adherence, and treatment resistance
David Vlahov, Director for the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine & Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Mailman, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University |
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Understanding need. Improving services
Chair: Helen Wilks, Chair, NNEF
- Patterns of mortality amongst injecting and non-injecting drug users in contact with treatment services in the North West of England 2003/04 - 2005/06
Ayesha Khundakar, North West NDTMS liaison manager, based at the Centre For Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University
- LARK - live assessment resource kit
Roweena Russell, Harm Reduction Strategy Manager, and Erica Whalley, Drug Action Team, Development Directorate, Tyne and Wear
- Are drug service users in England getting adequate harm reduction support? Findings of the 2006 NTA annual user satisfaction survey
Dima Abdulrahim, Senior Researcher, National Treatment Agency
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Dial a needle - meeting the needs of rural injecting drug users
Jody Clark, Proactive Outreach Worker, Drugs and Homeless Initiative, Warmley |
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Oral methadone and injectables
Chair: Nigel Brunsdon, Member of NNEF Planning Group
- Prescribing injectable opioids and the role of the observed clinic
Lesley Shipley, manager of Access 2, Tier 2 Harm Reduction Team, Trafford Substance Misuse Services & Haitham Nadeem, Consultant Psychiatrist in Addiction, Trafford Substance Misuse Services
- How will the results from the trials for the Home Affairs Committee on injectable opioid therapy (IOT) effect those already receiving this treatment?
Tom Neville, Service user patient rep/member SMMGP
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International lessons for national practice – Part 2
- Why the NTA funded service users to attend Warsaw conference?
Hugo Luck, Quality Manager, National Treatment Agency
- Launch of the service user group report on Warsaw conference
Jimi Grieve, NUN
- Black Poppy’s video perspectives on conference
Erin O’Mara, Editor, Black Poppy
- Look ahead to Barcelona 2008
Jamie Bridge, Communications and Project Development Officer, International Harm Reduction Association
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Plenary session: accessing veins and crack cocaine harm reduction |
| 2.00 |
Main Hall
Panel discussion
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| 2.45 |
Crack cocaine: evidence based, credible and accurate harm reduction information
A video specially commissioned for the conference
Jon Derricott, Exchange Supplies |
| 3.10 |
Chair's closing comments |
| 3.20 |
Conference close |
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