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Programme
All main hall speakers listed. Full programme details will be posted here as soon as they become available.
| Day One: Thursday 13th March 2008, 9.30am - 8.00pm |
| Chair: Baroness Vivien Stern, Convenor, Scottish Consortium on Crime and Criminal Justice (bio) |
| 7:30 |
Registration |
| 9:30 |
The new drug strategy and updated clinical guidelines: implications for policy and practice
Stefan Janikiewicz, Clinical Director, Wirral and Chester Drug and Alcohol Services |
| 10:00 |
From crop to vein: the global drug supply chain
Cindy Fazey, Honorary Visiting Professor of International Drug Policy, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Liverpool |
| 10:30 |
The ACCE (alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy) profile challenge:
responding to changing alcohol and drug misuse trends
Howard Parker, Emeritus Professor and Research and Training Consultant |
| 11:00 |
Coffee |
| 11:30 |
Parallel sessions: |
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A new service platform?: Developing tomorrow's alcohol and drug services
Howard Parker, Emeritus Professor and Research and Training Consultant |
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Hall 2
Combined heroin and crack injection: supporting the development of coordinated harm reduction responses and interventions to ‘speedball’ injectors
Claire Robbins, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Soho Rapid Access Clinic, London, Danny Morris, Development Manager, Drug Services, Herefordshire PCT & Independent Trainer and Consultant and Neil Hunt, Director of Research, KCA & Honorary Senior Research Associate at the European Institute of Social Services, University of Kent |
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Room 1
Assessment and outcomes
Chair: Kim Clarke, Clinical Governance and Improvement Manager, Addictions Division, Specialist Services, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London
- Drug and alcohol misuse triage assessment
Angela Swift, Team Leader and Steve Walker, Senior Practitioner in Addictions, Fife NHS Addiction Services
- Employing an understanding of social capital to improve drug treatment outcomes
Paul Wells, Substance Misuse Lead, Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership Trust
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Room 2
NICE guidance - nice or nasty?
Tom Carnwath, Consultant Psychiatrist, Clinical Director of Addiction Services, County Durham |
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Room 3
Delivering services and barriers to treatment
Chair: Jon Derricott, Exchange Supplies
- A new synthesis for working in dual diagnosis treatment
Brendan Georgeson, Treatment Coordinator, Walsingham House,
Bristol
- Substance misuse group work at a medium secure unit
Vaughan Bater Charge Nurse and Nick McAndrew, Staff Nurse, Cardigan Ward, Caswell Clinic, Bridgend
- Barriers to addiction treatment and related service denials to persons with disabilities: a multinational perspective
Steven L. West, Associate Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Counseling, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
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Room 4
Making it Big? – The personal stories of those involved in the UK drugs trade
Laura Wilson, Managing Consultant, Matrix Knowledge Group, London |
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Room 5
Codeine maintenance in opioid dependence
Roy Robertson, General Practitioner, Muirhouse Medical Group and Clinical Reader, Department of Community Health Science, Edinburgh University |
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| 1:30 |
Parallel sessions: |
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Main Hall
Implications of drug legislation and alcohol use in drug treatment settings: an interactive session
Paul Duffy, Drug Interventions Programme Monitoring and Research Manager and Clare Lushey, Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool |
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Hall 2
Health concerns, prescribing and complementary therapies
Chair: Neil Hunt, Director of Research, KCA & Honorary Senior Research Associate at the European Institute of Social Services, University of Kent
- The health concerns of clients on methadone maintenance
Gail Hawthorne, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Hepatitis C Liaison, Health Service Executive (HSE) Dublin Mid Leinster
- Non-medical prescribing in Tier 4
Robbie Corrie, Unit Manager, Windmill Drug and Alcohol Team, Surrey and Borders NHS Trust, Chertsey
- Complementary therapies and substance misuse: an investigation of the effectiveness of complementary therapies with drug and alcohol users
Lyn Hill, Jill Allott and Carole Gunning, Complementary Therapists, Project 6, Keighley
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Room 1
A strategic approach to training and workforce development in Birmingham
Angela Hylton, Training and Workforce Development Manager, Birmingham DAT |
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Room 2
Break the cycle (preventing initiation into injecting) - Integrating interventions into practice
Simon Pringle, Drugs Worker (Outreach), Drugs Action, Aberdeen |
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Room 3
Drug testing / cocaine use in a workplace
Chair: Danny Morris, Development Manager, Drug Services, Herefordshire PCT & Independent Trainer and Consultant
- Testing times
Garrett McGovern, GP Addiction Specialist, Dublin
- The impact of mandatory drug testing on treatment entry - the Salford experience
Mark Knight, Research and Data Manager, Salford DAAT
- Cocaine use in the oil and gas industry – the impact of policy and delivery of treatment
Inga Heyman, Specialist Stimulant Worker, Incite at Work, Drugs Action, Aberdeen
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Room 4
Drug treatment in a women's prison
Sarah Morgan, Substance Misuse Development Manager, Main Healthcare, H.M.P Styal Women's Prison, Cheshire |
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Room 5
Will drug law reform reduce drug-related harm?
Alex Wodak, Director, Alcohol and Drug Service, St. Vincent's Hospital,
New South Wales, Australia |
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| 2:30 |
Coffee |
| 3:00 |
Breaking down the barriers: effective strategies for engaging black and minority ethnic communities
Jane Fountain, Professor of Substance Use Research, Centre for Ethnicity and Health, University of Central Lancashire |
| 3:30 |
'Natural recovery': what can drug treatment services learn from those who stop without us?
Anthony Hewitt, Freelance Consultant and Researcher |
| 4:00 |
Vancouver vs USA: how one Canadian city built a comprehensive '4 pillar' response to drug use
Senator Larry Campbell, The Senate of Canada and Former Mayor of Vancouver |
| 4:30 |
Movement break |
| 4:45 |
| Schering-Plough symposium |
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Finding the balance; control vs. freedom
Chair: Tom Carnwath, Consultant Psychiatrist, Clinical Director of Addiction Services, County Durham
Neville Wright, Consultant Psychiatrist, Cumbria Community Drug and Alcohol Service and Sue Ashton, Team Leader, Cumbria Community Drug and Alcohol Service |
| 5:45 |
Welcome to the city from the Lord Provost of Glasgow |
| 6:00 |
Conference drinks reception (6:00pm to 8:00pm) |
| 6:15 |
Evening parallel sessions: |
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Main Hall
Naloxone trials update and networking meeting
Chair: Saket Priyadarshi, Senior Medical Officer, Glasgow Addiction Services |
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- Naloxone in Glasgow
Carole Hunter, Lead Pharmacist, Glasgow Addiction Services
- Lanarkshire naloxone pilot
Andrew McAuley, Information & Research Officer, Lanarkshire ADAT
- The effectiveness of naloxone distribution to clients in England
David Best, Senior Lecturer in Addiction, Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham
- Reducing drug related deaths in prisons
Vicky Putt, Senior Public Health Improvement Specialist (Substance Misuse and Alcohol)
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Room 2
Snus: An illegal drug that can improve public health among tobacco smokers?
Neil Hunt, Director of Research, KCA & Honorary Senior Research Associate at the European Institute of Social Services, University of Kent |
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Room 3
Using service user involvement and peer to peer to reach those who are hard to reach and at higher risk from drug related problems & illness
Tom Neville, Rochdale Service User Representative and Member of the SMMGP and Liz Wallace, Stockport Service User Representative |
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Room 5
Built on sand. The data base of British drug policy
Mike Ashton, Editor, Drug & Alcohol Findings |
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| 8:00 |
Close |
The Talk to FRANK helpline is consulting on how it can more effectively refer those callers who need treatment services to the most appropriate local service. We are keen to hear your views. The team are available throughout the conference in Room 6 - so do go along and share your thoughts.
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| Day Two: Friday 14th March 2008, 9.30am - 3.45pm |
| Chair: Bill Puddicombe, Director, Trust the Process Counselling Centre (biography) |
| 7:30 |
Registration |
| 9:30 |
The impact of user involvement
Joanne Christensen, Sefton Service User Involvement Officer, Sefton DAT |
| 10:00 |
The impact of drugs on communities
John Roberts, Independent Member, Metropolian Police Authority |
| 10:30 |
Doing more with less: rising to the latest challenge for drug treatment services
Christine Godfrey, Professor of Health Economics and Head of Department of Health Sciences, University of York |
| 11:00 |
Coffee |
| 11:45 |
Parallel sessions: |
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Main Hall
Chronic pain and substance misuse
Lesley Colvin, Consultant/ Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia. & Pain Medicine, University of Edinburgh and Michael Orgel, Consultant in Substance Misuse, Edinburgh Community Drug Problem Service |
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Hall 2
Risk behaviour and harm reduction
Chair:Jon Derricott, Exchange Supplies
- Identifying and reducing risk behaviour amongst injecting drug users
Kate Mukungu, Service Manager, Turning Point
- Exploring views and experiences about the sharing of injecting equipment used for ‘snowballing’ by adults who are homeless/vulnerably housed in Nottingham city: qualitative study
Louise Wilkins, Drug Worker, The Health Shop, Nottingham
- LARK web site for harm reduction and effective treatment outcomes
Roweena Russell, Harm Reduction Strategy Manager, North Tyneside DAT
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Room 1
Injectable drug treatment and MDMA within poly drug use
Chair: Danny Morris, Development Manager, Drug Services, Herefordshire PCT & Independent Trainer and Consultant
- Even with the new clinical guide lines, does injectable treatment really have a place in the future of the British treatment system?
Tom Neville, Rochdale Service User Representative and Member of the SMMGP
- There's a RIOTT going on
Hugh McCrossan, Clinical Manager/Borough Lead for Addiction in Southwark, London and Kylie Reed, Clinical Researcher, National Addiction Centre
- MDMA consumption in the context of polydrug use
Hamid Abboudi, Medical Student, St Georges University, London
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Room 2
The value of value for money in prison drug treatment
Laura Wilson, Managing Consultant, Matrix Knowledge Group, London and Louise Inman, Consultant, Matrix Knowledge Group |
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Room 3
Providing and commissioning drug services for diverse communities - findings from the black and minority ethnic community engagement study (2000-06)
Jez Buffin, Operations Manager, Centre for Ethnicity and Health, University of Central Lancashire, Preston |
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Room 4
Naltrexone - pharmacology, psychology and practical aspects
Jan Melichar, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Bristol & Consultant in Substance Misuse Psychiatry, Bristol Specialist Drug Service |
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Room 5
Pharmacy: the 'added value' service
Chair: Frances Donachie, Specialist Pharmacist, Substance Misuse, NHS Ayrshire and Arran
Presenters: Carole Hunter, Lead Pharmacist , Glasgow Addiction Services, Jean Logan, Specialist Pharmacist , NHS Forth Valley, Elaine Rankine, Specialist Pharmacist , NHS Lothian, Elaine Ward, Community Development Pharmacist, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and MaryClare Madden, Area Services Pharmacist, Boots, Strathclyde |
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| 12:45 |
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| 2:00 |
Social inclusion - an essential piece of the puzzle - what can we do to help people fit?
Peter Bates, Senior Consultant, The National Development Team |
| 2:30 |
Free to die?: developing initiatives to help drug users post-release
John Podmore, Chair of Release and Senior Operational Advisor, Offender Health, Department of Health |
| 3:00 |
Motivational interviewing: developing this essential skill
Steve Rollnick, Professor of Healthcare Communication, Department of General Practice, University of Cardiff |
| 3:45 |
Close |
The Talk to FRANK helpline is consulting on how it can more effectively refer those callers who need treatment services to the most appropriate local service. We are keen to hear your views. The team are available throughout the conference in Room 6 - so do go along and share your thoughts.
> Day one
> Day two
> Film festival
> Poster presentations
TOP
| Conference flyer |
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To download the conference flyer as a pdf
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