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Programme
| Day One: Monday 26th October 2009 10:30am – 7:15pm |
| Chair: Dawn Griesbach, Griesbach & Associates, Crieff, Perthshire (biography) |
| 9:00 |
Registration |
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Plenary session |
| 10:30 |
Main Hall
The launch of the 2009 'Shooting Up' report
Vivian Hope, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Elizabeth Allen, Senior Researcher and NESI Project Manager, Institute for Applied Social and Health Research, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley |
| 10:55 |
Developing effective services for injectors of crack cocaine
Louise Wilkins, Drug Worker, The Health Shop, Nottingham |
| 11:20 |
Coffee |
| 11:50 |
Parallel session |
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Main Hall
Used works: risks, returns and litter
Chair: Alan Neill, Harm Reduction Officer, Manchester Drug Service
Risk aspects of used works
Robert Heimer, Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut, USA
Returns, drug litter & needle exchange
John Bolloten, Needle Exchange Co-ordinator, City Of Bradford Metropolitan Council
Public injecting sites and drug related litter: formal responses and informal practice in Plymouth
Stephen Parkin, PhD Candidate, University of Plymouth |
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Hall 2
Preventing or reducing injecting: a review of the evidence on route transitions and reflections on 20 years of promoting the transition away from injecting heroin in the Netherlands
Jamie Bridge, Project Development Officer, International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) and John Peter Kools, Consultant on Drug Use, HIV and Harm Reduction, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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Room 1
'Legal highs'- legal alternatives to illegal drugs
Renato Masetti, DAAT Training Co-ordinator, Suffolk DAAT |
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Room 2
Harm reduction and new/social media
Nigel Brunsdon, Trainer and Blogger, injectingadvice.com and Allison Downing, Specialist Harm Reduction Worker, Project 6, Keighley |
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Room 3
Groin injecting and harm reduction
Chair: Frank Henderson, Team Manager, Surrey Harm Reduction Outreach Team
1) Reduction of groin injection within the supervised injecting clinic
Clare Morgans, Senior Registrar in Addictions and Anne Hurwood, Substance Misuse Nurse, RIOTT Clinic, Tees Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
2) LARK to hiwecanhelp
Roweena Russell, Harm Reduction Strategy Manager, North Tyneside DAT, Tyne and Wear |
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Room 4
The benefits of paramedic involvement in overdose management training
Lisette Abrahams, Centre Manager, The Xchange, Surrey and Verity Snook, Clinical Education Manager, Paramedic Higher Education Team, South East Coast Ambulance Service |
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Room 5
User involvement in Walsall 'Hi's n Lows'
Tracey Gibbs, Project Manager and Philip Mason, Team Leader, Hi's n Lows, Walsall |
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| 12:50 |
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| 1:50 |
Parallel session |
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Main Hall
'Your DVT is in the post': femoral injecting, DVT's and needle size
Chair: Danny Morris, Independent Trainer & Consultant, Hereford
Allison Downing, Specialist Harm Reduction Worker, Project 6, Keighley |
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Hall 2
Heroin overdose and use of naloxone
Soraya Mayet, Consultant Psychiatrist in Addictions, Clare Morgans, Senior Registrar in Addictions, Tees Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust and Anna Williams, Researcher, National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London |
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Room 1
Spot on? The pros and cons of BBV blood spot testing
Norma Westland, Senior Addictions Nurse, NHS Fife Addiction Services, Cameron Hospital, Fife |
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Room 2
DAAT funded research, indoor injecting environments and community sharps bins
Chair: Kim Clarke, Specialist Clinical Governance & Improvement Manager,
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
1) How DAATs can fund directly relevant drug related research and contribute to knowledge
Gary Wallace, DAAT Manager, Plymouth Drug and Alcohol Action Team and Ross Coomber, Reader in Sociology, University of Plymouth
2) Resituating the ‘Shooting Gallery’: indoor drug injecting environments in the South West of England
Stephen Parkin, PhD Candidate, University of Plymouth
3) Community sharps bins: a public health solution to drug related litter
Lloyd Baron, IAD Researcher, Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University |
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Room 3
Naloxone and carer support
Chair: Peter Furlong, Liverpool PCT
1) Empower yourself with naloxone - moving forward with naloxone prescribing in Southwark, London
Mags O'Sullivan, Senior Substance Misuse Nurse, Blackfriars Community Drug & Alcohol Team, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
2) Education & empathy, not tea and sympathy
Keely Glithero and Lisette Abrahams, Centre Managers and Yvonne Bryant and Pat Lambert, Parents, Parent/Carer Support Group, The Xchange, Surrey Harm Reduction Outreach Team |
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Room 4
Welfare Reform: what does that really mean?
Niamh Eastwood, Deputy Director and Head of Legal Services, Release, London |
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Room 5
Peer-delivered needle exchange: the role of social networks in accessing injecting equipment and the implications for harm reduction interventions
Chair: Neil Hunt, Freelance Researcher, Kent
Lloyd Belcher, University Lecturer, Thames Valley University, London |
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| 2:50 |
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| 3:20 |
Main Hall
Naloxone
John Strang, Professor in Addiction Research and Director of the National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London |
| 3:45 |
Provision of foil in Sheffield via needle exchange services
Anne Boid, Needle Exchange Worker, Turning Point Adult Treatment Services, Sheffield |
| 4:10 |
Crack pipes
Mick Webb, Stimulant Worker, Drugs and Homeless Initiative (DHI), Swindon |
| 4:35 |
Welcome to the city from the Lord Provost of Glasgow |
| 4:45 |
Movement break |
| 5:00 |
Evening session |
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Hall 2
National Needle Exchange Forum open session
'From Peer to Infinity' - engaging peers as partners in needle exchange delivery
Speakers: The Gold Standard Team
Deploying peer based needle exchange as an integral part of harm reduction services - a drug service manager’s view
Mat Southwell
From underground peer needle exchange to professional partnerships - the drug user group experience
Tam Miller
From demons to angels - the role of drug dealers in delivering peer needle exchange
Nikki Coe
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| 6:00 |
Conference drinks reception |
| 6:00 |
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| 7:15 |
Close |
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| Day Two: Tuesday 27th October 2009 9:00am – 3:30pm |
| Chair: Carole Hunter, Lead Pharmacist, Glasgow Addiction Services (biography) |
| 8:00 |
Registration |
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Plenary session |
| 9:00 |
Main Hall
Priorities for primary prevention of new hepatitis C infections
Matthew Hickman, Reader in Public Health and Epidemiology, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol |
| 9:25 |
Scottish hepatitis C action plan: a blueprint for the UK
David Goldberg, Consultant Epidemiologist, Health Protection Scotland, Glasgow |
| 9:50 |
Trends in injecting performance and image enhancing drugs in the UK
Jim McVeigh, Head of Substance Use, Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University |
| 10:15 |
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| 11:00 |
Parallel session |
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Main Hall
'Damn statistics, damn lies & damn headlines': research, the media, policy, and practice
Jim McVeigh, Head of Substance Misuse, Lloyd Baron, IAD Researcher and Martin Chandler, IAD Database Manager, Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University |
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Hall 2
Using film to communicate key overdose messages. ‘Overdose - A retrospective’, 'OD training - user's cut’ and 'Mr Mange goes over'
Jon Derricott, Exchange Supplies |
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Room 1
If repeal of drugs prohibition is the future, how can practice match up today?
Mike McCarron, Board Member and Jolene Crawford, Director, Transform Drug Policy Foundation Scotland, Glasgow |
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Room 2
Prison NSP, single use filters, and 'Break the Cycle'
Chair: Frank Henderson, Team Manager, Surrey Harm Reduction Outreach Team
1) Prison needle exchange in the UK - why not?
Susan Wighton, Senior Lecturer Addictive Behaviours, Glyndwr University, Wrexham
2) The use of Sterifilt, a sterile single use filter, in relation to the drug injected
Lenneke Keijzer, Study Lead, Apothicom, Paris, France
3) 'Break the Cycle' - initial results from a two year project in Aberdeen
Simon Pringle, Drugs Worker Supervisor, Drugs Action, Aberdeen |
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Room 3
BBVsim – introducing a computer model of blood borne virus epidemics
Andrew Preston, Exchange Supplies, Neil Hunt, Freelance Researcher and Edmund Chattoe-Brown, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Leicester |
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Room 5
Where does it all lead? – a long term study of injecting drug users
Roy Robertson, General Practitioner, Muirhouse Medical Group and Clinical Reader, Department of Community Health Science, University of Edinburgh |
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| 12:00 |
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| 1:00 |
Parallel session |
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Main Hall
Hep C testing an essential service!
Chair: Matthew Hickman, Reader in Public Health and Epidemiology, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol
Dried blood spot testing: pre test counselling essentials and setting up a testing service
Siobhan Fahey, Association of Greater Manchester PCT's Hepatitis C Strategy (Programme Manager), Public Health Directorate, Manchester
Dried blood spot testing and care pathways
Noel Craine, Research Scientist, National Public Health Service for Wales, Bangor |
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Hall 2
Introducing 'take home' naloxone in Wales - from strategic direction to delivery
Danny Morris, Independent Trainer and Consultant, Hereford, Rossana Oretti, Consultant Psychiatrist in Substance Misuse, Cardiff Community Addiction Unit and Rhian Hills, Regional Advisor, Gwent Substance Misuse Advisory Team |
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Room 1
NICE commissioning guide for NSPs
Chair: Susie Dadlani, Pharmacy Needle Exchange and Supervised Consumption Manager, Surrey Harm Reduction Outreach Team
Christina McArthur, Commissioning Adviser, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), London |
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Room 2
Injectables and the story behind the perfect prescription
Erin O'Mara, Editor, Black Poppy Magazine and Tom Neville, Substance Misuse Advocate, CDT & SMMGP, Manchester |
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Room 3
Opportunities and obstacles when preventing initiation into injecting: international perspective
Neil Hunt, Freelance Researcher, Kent |
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Room 4
Sentencing for drugs offences
Genevieve Horwood, In House Counsel, Release, London |
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Room 5
Teaching people to access veins - practical issues
Rob van der Waal, Clinical Project Lead, RIOTT and Pete Beavan, Senior Substance Misuse Nurse, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
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| 2:00 |
Movement break |
| 2:10 |
Main Hall
Blood borne virus transmission amongst injecting drug users
Robert Heimer, Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut, USA |
| 2:55 |
Using ultrasound as a tool for helping femoral injectors
Richard Senbanjo, Clinical Director, Community Drug Services, KCA, Kent |
| 3:30 |
Close |
> Day One
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> Poster presentations
> Film festival
> Stand and floor plan
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