Understanding discrimination
Main Hall
Chair: Mary Hepburn, Honorary Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Princess Royal Maternity Hospital, Glasgow

Welcome and setting the scene
Mary Hepburn, Honorary Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Princess Royal Maternity Hospital, Glasgow (biography)

Understanding institutional discrimination
Craig Reinarman, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

The experience of using drugs: being a parent and accessing services
Anna Millington, National Users Advisory Group (NUAG)

Discrimination: the user’s view
Stevie MacDonald: Scottish Drug Forum

Moving beyond discrimination to an effective relationship
Phil Barker, Visiting Professor, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Morning parallel sessions
12.00pm - 1.00pm

Main Hall
Vocational rehab and social reintegration
Dr Julian Buchanan, Reader in Community Justice, Social Inclusion Research Unit, NEWI, Wrexham

Hall 2
Motivation: is it all people need to change?
Professor Nick Heather, Emeritus Professor of Alcohol and Other Drug Studies, Division of Psychology, Northumbria University

Room 2
Developing drug and alcohol treatment in the prison setting
Steve Tutty, Clinical Governance Lead Substance Use/Misuse Service, HMP Wormwood Scrubs
and
Challenging addiction at New Directions Therapeutic Community
Dave Evans, Treatment Manager, New Directions Therapeutic Community, HMP Channings Wood

Room 3
Young people and drug treatment
Neil Hunter, Joint General Manager, Glasgow Addiction Services

Room 4
Working with drug-using sex workers
Katy Swaine, Release Legal Team and Justine Davies, Substance Misuse Worker, Sexual Health on Call (SHOC), Haringey and Enfield

Room 5
Film festival screenings:
12.00: 'The Biggest Mess'
12:30: 'Reduce Speed' - a film about crystal meth
Throughout the conference there will be a film festival showing short films and programmes related to the conference themes

Room 6
Meeting the needs of black and other minority ethnic drug users
Viv Ahmun, Chair, The Federation of Black and Asian Drugs Workers and Chief Officer,
In-volve.

Room 7
Case studies and clinical dilemmas
Alan Joyce, Senior Advocate, The Alliance and Beryl Poole, The Alliance

Afternoon parallel sessions
2.30 - 3.30pm

Main Hall
The role of service users in service planning and evaluation*
David Liddell, Director, Scottish Drugs Forum and
Suzy Calder, Substance Misuse Strategy and Implementation Manager, Highland Drug and Alcohol Action Team (HDAAT)

Hall 2
The prevalance of co-morbid substance misuse and mental illness. Implications for service development*
Dr Tim Weaver, Research Fellow, Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour

Room 3
Working with street homeless drug users
Peter Anderson, Support Team Manager, Streetwork UK, Edinburgh

Room 4
Hidden harm: what’s changed for children and young people of substance misusers?
Susan Bennett, Principal Consultant, LCS Limited

Room 5
Film festival screenings:
2.30: 'Mohammad and the Matchmaker'
3.10: 'Dances with Drugs'
Throughout the conference there will be a film festival showing short films and programmes related to the conference themes

Room 6
Management of physical illness in drug users
Dr Penny Schofield, RCGP Regional Drug Training Lead for North East England

Room 7
Drug treatment and the role of the pharmacist
Carole Hunter, Lead Pharmacist, Glasgow Addiction Services and Rachel Britton, Research Pharmacist, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath

Coffee

Afternoon parallel sessions
4.00 - 4.45pm

Main Hall
Debate:
“This house believes that we are plainly failing to reduce harms with current policies, and that we should place more emphasis on getting addicts drug free than on prescribing methadone maintenance”

Proposing: Neil McKeganey, Professor of Drug Misuse Research, University of Glasgow
Seconding: David Bryce, Founder of Calton Athletic Recovery Group

Opposing: Pat O’Hare, IHRA Honorary President
Seconding: Bill Nelles, The Alliance

Room 6
Paper presentations: Criminal justice and the community
4.00pm - 5.15pm
Chair: Rick Rutkowski, Chair, The Alliance

1) CARAT and PASRO services in prisons
Joanne Sandland, CARAT Cluster Manager, Lifeline, HMP Hull

2) Hazardous journeys to better places
Dr Catherine M. Comiskey, Principal Investigator the ROSIE project, Ireland.

3) The community and criminal justice interface: Initiating and maintaining desistance in the community or coercion by any other name?
Dr Gillian Squirrel, University of Bristol and Thames Valley University

Schering-Plough symposium
Main Hall
5.00pm - 6.00pm

Benzodiazapine interactions with methadone and buprenorphine
Nicholas Lintzeris, Senior Lecturer, National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London and Honorary Consultant, South London and Maudsley Trust, Addictions Directorate

Treatment options in Glasgow
Dr Kennedy Roberts, Lead Specialist Senior Medical Officer, Glasgow Addiction Services

Evening parallel sessions*
6.00pm - 7.00pm

Main Hall
Managing pain in opiate-dependent patients: case studies and expert panel discussion*
Chair: Dr Chris Ford
Panel to include Jason White, Professor of Addiction Studies and Head of Department, Dept of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology, Medical School North, Adelaide, Australia, Gary Sutton, Release Heroin Helpline and Dr Penny Schofield, RCGP Regional Drug Training Lead for North East England.

Room 2
Treatment effectiveness strategy*
Mark Gilman, National Treatment Agency, Regional Manager, North West

Room 3
Occasional and controlled heroin use: patterns of use and mechanism of control*
Paul Turnbull, Deputy Director, Institute for Criminal Policy Research, King’s College London and Neil Hunt, Senior Research Associate at the European Institute of Social Services, University of Kent and Director of Research for KCA

Room 4
Development of quality standards for substance misuse services in Scotland
Carole Ross, Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Team Leader, Safer Communities, Scottish Executive Justice Department and Philip Hogben, Scottish Executive.

Room 5
Film festival screenings:
6.00: 'Live Containers'
6.25: 'Naloxone'
6.45: 'Chew on This'
Throughout the conference there will be a film festival showing short films and programmes related to the conference themes

Room 6
Choosing medications: what people want
Nicholas Lintzeris, Senior Lecturer, National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London and Honorary Consultant, South London and Maudsley Trust, Addictions Directorate

Hall 2
'Detox or Die' Ibogaine film and discussion*
7.15pm - 8.00pm
David Graham Scott , Independent Film Director

'Early Bird' parallel sessions
8.30am - 9.30am

Hall 2
BOOTS Breakfast Meeting: Options in opiate dependence therapy*
Dr Hayley Pinto, Specialist Regsitrar in Addiction Psychiatry, Trust Alcohol and Drug Service, Norfolk and Waveney Mental Partnership Trust and Jeff Rothwell, Regulatory Affairs Manager, Rosemont Pharmaceuticals

Room 1
Housing people with multiple needs*
Karina Christiansen, Head of Mental Health and Homelessness Services, Southern Focus Trust and Viana David, Manager of Dual Diagnosis Services, Southern Focus Trust

Room 3
Paper presentations: Emerging clinical issues*
8.30am - 9.45am
Chair: Danny Morris, Development Manager, Drug Services, Herefordshire PCT.

1) Opiod and benzodiazepine consumption and co-prescribing
Suzanne Nielsen, PhD Scholar, Department of Pharmaceutical Pharmacology and Biology, Victorian College of Pharmacy

2) The practicalities of conducting a randomised controlled trial with drug-using prioners
Laura Sheard, Research Assistant, Centre for Research in Primary Care, Leeds

3) An observed injecting clinic at Trafford Substance Misuse Service
Lesley Shipley, Harm Reduction Nurse Specialist, Trafford Substance Misuse Service and Julian Coxon, Harm Reduction Nurse, Trafford Substance Misuse Service

Room 4
Successfully integrating service users into the commissioning process*
Gary Seaman, User Involvement Coordinator, Merton Drug Action Team

Room 6
The role of the key worker*
Andrew Horne, Operations Manager, Addaction Scotland and Dorothy Graham, Project Manager Addaction North Glasgow Community Rehabilitation Service.

Improving the health of drug-using prisoners
Main Hall
Chair: Professor Phillip Bean, Emeritus Professor of Criminology, Loughborough University (biography)

Breaking the chains
Tom Carnwath, Consultant Psychiatrist, County Durham

The needs of drug-using women in prison
Sue Brookes, Governor, HMP Comtonvale, Stirling

The prison/community interface
Mark Gilman, National Treatment Agency, Regional Manager, North West

Morning parallel sessions
12.00pm - 1.00pm

Main Hall
Key issues in buprenorphine prescribing
Dr Walter Ling, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP), University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Hall 2
Responding to crack use: lessons from the USA
Craig Reinarman, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

Room 1
Paper presentations:*
Family and neighbourhood issues in drugs work
Chair: Jon Derricott, Freelance writer and trainer

1) The road to God Knows Where: Treating addiction problems in disadvantaged communities
Paul Quigley, Medical Officer, HSE Addiction Service, Dublin

2) Outreach Working in Non-Urban Settings; Highlighting the Need for a Community Response Model in Effective Harm Reduction
Tim Gunner, DASH Drug Outreach Worker, Drug Services, Herefordshire PCT and Kate Best, DASH Drug Outreach Worker, Drug Services, Herefordshire PCT

3) Children of substance misusing parents – Putting policy into practice
Joy Barlow, STRADA

Room 2
Working with drug users in rural areas
Anni Stonebridge, Drug and Alcohol Development Officer, Aberdeenshire Association of Drug Action Teams (ADAT) Chair of the Remote and Rural Subgroup, ADAT

Room 3
Hepatitis C and drug-using prisoners
Jax Shapter, Mainliners

Room 4
Paper presentations:*
Young people, drug use in an asian community and the social reality of drug treatment
Chair: Neil Hunt, Senior Research Associate at the European Institute of Social Services, University of Kent and Director of Research for KCA

1) Demographic distribution and drug use in persons aged 10-18, in contact with treatment services and resident in the south west during 2004/05
Barbara Boulton, South West Public Health Observatory

2) Drug use in Keighley’s south asian community
Safiya Rehman, Drug & Alcohol Worker (Asian Communities) Project 6, Keighley.

3) The social reality of drug treatment
Mike Smith, Director, Hidden Populations Research Limited and Stuart Honor, Director, Hidden Populations Research Limited

Room 5
Film festival screenings:
12.00: 'Ibogane - Rite of Passage'
Throughout the conference there will be a film festival showing short films and programmes related to the conference themes

Room 6
'The Emperor has no clothes' - Young people's drug strategy*
Neil Baxter, Neil Baxter Training and Consultancy Ltd. and Richard Tamlyn, Independent Consultant

Room 7
Working with women with experience of sexual abuse
Kim Hager, Drugs Treatment and Policy Consultant

Lunch

Key clinical issues in drug treatment
Main Hall
Chair: Dr Roy Robertson, Muirhouse, Edinburgh (biography)

Side effects of substitute medications
Jenny Scott, Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, University of Bath

Teeth - not just for eating
Sebastian Saville, Director, Release

Opiate use, pregnancy and reproductive health
Mary Hepburn, Honorary Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Princess Royal Maternity Hospital, Glasgow

Pain and pain management in people who are opiate dependent
Jason White, Professor of Addiction Studies and Head of Department, Dept of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology, Medical School North, Adelaide, Australia