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Film festival
All films at the festival will be shown in Hall 2
> Programme
> Poster presentations
Monday 26th October 2009
1.10pm (during lunch break)
Keep Walking: an educational documentary for femoral injectors
Producer: Exchange Supplies as part of the NTA Harm Reduction Works campaign
Contact email: jon@exchangesupplies.org
Length: 26 minutes
'Keep walking' is a film for femoral injectors made by Exchange Supplies for the NTA as part of the 'Harm Reduction Works' campaign. The film is a documentary aimed at femoral injectors examining the risks of femoral injecting through interviews and a fly on the wall visit to a vascular surgeon for three femoral injectors.
The Harm Reduction Works campaign materials are designed to inform and change the conversations that occur between drug workers and drug users, and between drug users themselves in order to change the decisions drug users make, and reduce the risks they take.
The Harm Reduction Works resources have been produced by Exchange Supplies for the National Treatment Agency. Funded by the Department of Health as part of Reducing Drug-Related Harm: An Action Plan.
See HarmReductionWorks.org.uk for details of all resources.
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Monday 26th October 2009
3pm (during coffee break)
Overdose - a retrospective
Producer: Impact Productions in association with Nottingham City NHS/The Health Shop
Contact: sarah.paling@nottinghamcity-pct.nhs.uk or louise.wilkins@nottinghamcity-pct.nhs.uk
Length: 14 minutes
Aim: By producing the DVD we hoped to make a more locally appropriate, service user-led tool to be used alongside a two-hour overdose response training session already provided by The Health Shop, a harm reduction service in Nottingham. Service users and carers attend the training.
Design: Our initial ideas were taken to a consultation group of service users who gave honest and frank accounts of overdose and the DVD was produced by final year media students from Nottingham Trent University. The students spent a lot of time with service users to gain an understanding of the culture of drug use in Nottingham. The content of the short film follows the journey of a person leaving prison and culminates in them overdosing. Interviews given by services users sharing their experiences of overdose are shown intermittently throughout the film
Findings: Since the DVD has been part of our training session we have found it to be an important method of facilitating discussion, especially as the DVD was peer-led and filmed at easily recognisable locations in Nottingham city. The film is also currently being shown as part of overdose sessions at HMP Nottingham. We recognise that the film does not contain all aspects of overdose, harm reduction and basic life support, this was due to time restrictions and therefore it is important that it is used in context and as part of a training session. The film also shows graphic simulated scenes of injecting and has a very personal emotive ending; therefore we would never show the DVD without support being available.
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Tuesday 27th October
10.30am (during coffee break)
Mr Mange goes over
Producer: Exchange Supplies as part of the NTA Harm Reduction Works campaign
Contact email: jon@exchangesupplies.org
Length: 9 minutes
People often think that heroin overdoses are caused by variations in heroin purity, but this isn't necessarily the case and many factors can be involved. Overdose death is often predictable with known risk factors including:
- not being in treatment;
- being older and having a long history of injecting;
- poly drug use, particularly alcohol and benzodiazepines;
- physical ill health; and
- a recent history of non-fatal overdose.
Produced in conjunction with Lifeline publications, Mr Mange is black comedy about overdose death. Using a darkly comic cartoon style, Mr Mange goes over is a very serious look at the causes of heroin overdose and how to avoid it. Warning: contains explicit language and drug references.
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Tuesday 27th October
10.40am (during coffee break)
OD training saves lives – a training documentary
Producer: Exchange Supplies as part of the NTA Harm Reduction Works Campaign
Contact email: jon@exchangesupplies.org
Length: User version – 5 minutes
Drug worker edit version – 13 minutes
This film describes how to run overdose response training courses, and talks to people who've benefited from training about how it altered their response to overdose situations.
See HarmReductionWorks.org.uk for details of all resources.
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Tuesday 27th October
12.25pm (during lunch break)
HIV, hepatitis C, and injecting drug use: a training film
Producer: Exchange Supplies as part of the NTA Harm Reduction Works campaign
Contact email:andrew@exchangesupplies.org
Length: 26minutes
There have been a number of major advances in the understanding of blood borne viruses in recent years, and it is vital that everyone in the field - and injecting drug users - has up-to-date information about the hepatitis C epidemic, HIV, and injecting drug use.
Aimed at drug workers, peer trainers, policy makers and commissioners, and anyone interested in injecting drug use, this full length documentary features leading experts in the field including Gerry Stimson, Noel Craine, Roy Robertson and Robert Heimer giving their analysis of the current state of our knowledge.
The film will also cover issues such as hep C treatment, the role of needle exchange and substitute prescribing in prevention of blood borne virus epidemic as well as describing the HIV epidemic that occured in Edinburgh in the late 1980's.
See HarmReductionWorks.org.uk for details of all resources.
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