FINAL PROGRAM (25. 2. 2002)
If you find any mistakes regarding your presentation or session, please don't hesitate to contact us so that we can correct them.We would also like to advise you that the programme may be subject to late changes.
We look forward to meet you in Slovenia.
List of presenters (session, time of presentation) - for all types of presentations (incl. posters)
Sunday - 3. 3. 2002
| 10.00 Room: E7 Training SESSION 85 |
|
| 17.00 Room: Linhartova h. Plenary SESSION 104 OPENING SESSION DRUGS, HEALTH, HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL CHANGE Aryeh Neier, USA |
Monday - 4. 3. 2002
| 08.30-09.00 Room: Linhartova h. Morning Countdown Chair: Ernst Buning, THE NETHERLANDS |
|||||
| 09.00-10.15 Room: Linhartova h. Plenary SESSION 110 Social change and transitions: lines of inclusion and exclusion Plenary Chair: Rahmaan Lawal, NIGERIA A HYBRID MOVEMENT FOR FREEDOM OF CONSCIOUSNESS, HARM REDUCTION, DRUG POLICY REFORM AND HUMAN RIGHTS Craig Reinarman, USA AGAINST MARGINALISATION Nora Stojanovik, MACEDONIA SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSITIONS AND SUBSTANCE USE Martin McKee, UK |
|||||
| 10.45-12.15 Room: Linhartova h. Major SESSION 88 Harm reduction and human rights Major Chair: Aryeh Neier, USA Session organized by the International Harm Reduction Development program of OSI, Human Rights Watch and the Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation OUTREACH AND HARM REDUCTION IN A HIGH - RISK ENVIRONMENT: THE BOGOTA STREETS Timothy Ross, COLOMBIA HARM REDUCTION PROJECTS AND THEIR LEGAL ENVIRONMENT Judit Fridli, HUNGARY PUBLIC HEALTH OR HUMAN RIGHTS WHAT COMES FIRST? Neil Hunt, UK HUMAN RIGHTS: ABUSES AS THE ENGINE OF THE HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC: HARM REDUCTION AND BEYOND Joanne Csete, USA |
10.45-12.15 Room: Kosovelova h. Major SESSION 19 Estimating the social costs of drug use Major Network Chair: Lucas Wiessing, EMCDDA Session supported by the EMCDDA / TSER European Drug Modelling Network ILLICIT DRUGS IN FRANCE: WHAT THEY COST THE COMMUNITY, 1997 Pierre Kopp, FRANCE ESTIMATE OF THE SOCIAL COSTS OF ILLICIT DRUG ABUSE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC IN 1998 Tomas Zabransky, CZECH REPUBLIC INTANGIBLE COSTS OF ALCOHOL DEPENDENCY AS A PUBLIC GOOD: AN ESTIMATE FOR SWITZERLAND BASED ON A CONTINGENT VALUATION SURVEY Claude Jean Renaud, SWITZERLAND CALCULATING THE SOCIAL COSTS OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN POLAND Janusz Sieroslawski, POLAND UPDATED HEALTH CARE COST ESTIMATES FOR DRUG-RELATED HEPATITIS C INFECTIONS IN EU COUNTRIES Maarten Jacobus Postma, THE NETHERLANDS |
10.45-12.15 Room: Štihova h. Major SESSION 80 Culture, media and the representation of drugs Major Chair: Vito Flaker, SLOVENIA ALCOHOL AS A THEME/MOTIVE IN THE SELECTED LITERARY OPUSES Krunoslav Pranjić, CROATIA MEDIA REPRESENTATION OF DRUG USERS Mojca Pajnik, SLOVENIA HARM REDUCTION-BENEFIT MAXIMIZATION: THE TABOO OF PLEASURE AND ILLEGAL DRUG USE Nick Stafford, AUSTRALIA IS REASON WITHOUT DRUGS REASONABLE? Darij Zadnikar, SLOVENIA |
|||
| 13.15-15.15 Room: Linhartova h. SESSION 52 WHO Workshop: Rapid assessment and surveys of drug injectors Roundtable Chair: Vladimir Poznyak, WHO INTRODUCTION TO SESSION Vladimir Poznyak, WHO PHASE II: WHO IDU MULTI-CITY STUDY-BOGOTA RAPID ASSESSMENT AND RESPONSE ON HIV/HEPATITIS B/C AMONG IDUs IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA: A MULTI -METHOD STUDY Ines Elvira Mejia Motta, COLOMBIA THE IDUs SITUATION IN ROSARIO, ARGENTINA: FACING THE THIRD MILLENNIUM Pablo Siri, ARGENTINA INJECTION DRUG USE AND RISK BEHAVIOURS IN GREAT ROSARIO, ARGENTINA; FROM ASSESSMENT TO RESPONSES IN THE FRAMEWORK OF WHO MULTY-CITY STUDY- PHASE II Silvia Inchaurraga, ARGENTINA RAPID ASSESSMENT AND RESPONSE OF INJECTING DRUG USE IN NAIROBI, KENYA Maurice Odek-Ogunde, KENYA INJECTING DRUG USE AND HARM REDUCTION PROGRAMS IN MINSK Yauhenia Kechyna, BELARUS RAPID ASSESSMENT OF INJECTING DRUG USE IN KHARKIV (UKRAINE) Marina Varban, UKRAINE MAPPING METHOD AT STUDYING DRUG ADDICTION IN MINSK (BELARUS) Yauhenia Kechyna, BELARUS THE LINK BETWEEN RAPID ASSESSMENT AND SUBSEQUENT QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY IN THE WHO DRUG INJECTING STUDY PHASE II Theresa Perlis, USA |
13.15-15.15 Room: Kosovelova h. SESSION 114 Drug Policy Alliance: Drug Policy Reform Activism in the United States Symposium Chair: Ethan Nadelmann, USA INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Ethan Nadelmann, USA The Drug Policy Alliance (formerly the Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation) is the leading USA drug policy reform organization. It promotes policies, practices and attitudes that reduce the harms of drug use and prohibition, and the sovereignty of individuals over their minds and bodies. It increasingly focuses on places where reform opportunities have emerged or can be developed. DPA builds coalitions, pursues litigation and influences the media. this session explores the work of the DPA and the challenges, opportunities and realities of reform work in the USA. WORKING WITH THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR AND THE DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATURE IN NEW MEXICO Katharine Huffman, USA CHALLENGING DRUG WAR RACISM: TULIA, TEXAS AND BEYOND Deborah Small, USA WHEN THE PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION EMBRACES REFORM Marsha Rosenbaum, USA BATTLING THE DRUG WAR IN THE COURTS Daniel N. Abrahamson, USA AIDING REFORMERS IN LATIN AMERICA Matt Briggs, Usa IHRD AND THE DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: THE CONTINUING COLLABORATION Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, USA |
13.15-15.15 Room: Štihova h. SESSION 13 Sexual behaviour Symposium Chair: Irena Klavs, SLOVENIA LOVE, INTIMACY AND NEEDLE SHARING: EXPLORING THE INFLUENCE OF SEVERE HEROIN DEPENDENCY AND DOPE SICKNESS ON DRUG RELATED HARMS IN THE DTES VANCOUVER Patricia Spittal, CANADA HIV RELATED-SEXUAL AND INJECTION PRACTICES AMONG WOMEN INJECTION DRUG USERS (IDUs) IN OTTAWA, CANADA Lynne Leonard, CANADA HOW WE CAN CHANGE THE HEALTH SEEKING BEHAVIOR OF IDUS? Juliana Rozario, BANGLADESH SURVIVING THE SEX TRADE : A TWO COHORT COMPARISON OF HIV INFECTION AND RISK BEHAVIOR AMONG STREET INVOLVED WOMEN IN CANADA WHO INJECT DRUGS Patricia Spittal, CANADA SEXUAL BEHAVIOR OF NIGERIAN HEROIN AND COCAINE DRUG USERS Rahmaan Lawal, NIGERIA DRUG USER ORGANISING IN CEE AND THE NIS: CRISIS COUNSELING Marina Kudryavtseva, RUSSIA |
13.15-15.15 Room: E1 SESSION 70 Consultation and community environment development Symposium Chair: Jimmy Dorabjee, INDIA CONSENSUS AND JOINT COMMISSIONING WITHIN UK DRUG ACTION TEAM STRATEGY Sue Neely, UK WHAT DRUG ISSUES DO DRUG USERS THINK ARE IMPORTANT AND WHAT POLICIES DO THEY WANT? Kristy Arden, AUSTRALIA THE COMMUNITY RENEWAL ADOPT-AN-AMBO PROJECT: DRUG AWARENESS & SAFETY EDUCATION IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS Jill White, AUSTRALIA COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE RISK OF HIV INFECTION Volodymyr Chura, UKRAINE METHOD GUIDANCE ON PARTICIPATORY ASSESSMENT FOR NGOS WORKING WITH IDUS Tetyana Deshko, UKRAINE |
13.15-15.15 Room: E7 SESSION 36 Users training in overdose prevention Roundtable Chair: Ken Vail, USA LEARNING TO BREATHE: USERS TRAINING USERS IN OVERDOSE RESUSCITATION Justin Woodruff, AUSTRALIA NON-FATAL HEROIN OVERDOSE AND SUICIDALITY: TOWARDS A MORE DETAILED EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP Penny Heale, AUSTRALIA NALOXONE DISTRIBUTION AND FIRST AID TRAINING TO PREVENT OPIATE OVERDOSE DEATHS Kerstin Dettmer, GERMANY IS THE CONCEPT OF "SUBSTANCE RELATED DEATH" A SENSIBLE CONCEPT? Alfred Uhl, AUSTRIA A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF YOUNG INJECTION DRUG USERS EXPERIENCES WITH OVERDOSE Susan Sherman, USA OVERDOSE SURVEY OF CENTRAL/ EASTERN EUROPE, FORMER SOVIET UNION AND CENTRAL ASIA Phillip Coffin, USA |
13.15-15.15 Room: E3 SESSION 66 Spaces and places for drug injecting Symposium Chair: Kate Dolan, AUSTRALIA METHODOLOGY OF THE EVALUATION OF THE SYDNEY MEDICALLY SUPERVISED INJECTING CENTRE (MSIC) AND LATEST RESULTS OF THE PROCESS EVALUATION Jo Kimber, AUSTRALIA HOMELESS IDU`s IN MANCHESTER: RESEARCH AND ACTION DESIGNED TO REDUCE OVERDOSE AND RISKY INJECTION PRACTICES? Michael Linnell, UK CRITICAL REMARKS REGARDING THE DUTCH EXPERIENCE WITH SAFE ROOMS FOR DRUG USERS Daan van der Gouwe, THE NETHERLANDS THE BURDEN OF PUBLIC INJECTING IN MONTREAL: IS IT TIME FOR SUPERVISED INJECTING FACILITIES (SIF)? Traci Craig Green, USA MY PLACE, YOUR PLACE, OR A SAFE PLACE: ACCEPTABILITY OF SUPERVISED INJECTING FACILITIES (SIF) IN MONTREAL Traci Craig Green, USA THE SYDNEY MEDICALLY SUPERVISED INJECTING CENTRE: A CLINICAL MODEL Ingrid Van Beek, AUSTRALIA THE SAFE INJECTING ROOM IN BERN: 15 YEARS IN OPERATION, CHANGES AS REFLECTED IN 3 INVESTIGATIONS Robert Haemmig, SWITZERLAND |
| 15.30-17.00 Room: Linhartova h. SESSION 98 Evidence for Action: Preventing HIV through needle and syringe programming, drug substitution treatment and structural intereventions substitution treatment and structural intervention Symposium Chair: Andrew Ball, WHO Organized by WHO Department of HIV/AIDS, Geneva; Global Research Network on HIV Prevention in Drug Using Populations (GRN) EVIDENCE FOR ACTION FOR NATIONAL HIV/AIDS POLICY AND PROGRAMMING? Gundo Weiler, SWITZERLAND EVIDENCE FOR ACTION: EFFECTIVENESS OF NEEDLE AND SYRINGE PROGRAMMES FOR HIV PREVENTION AMONG INJECTING DRUG USERS Alex Wodak, AUSTRALIA STRUCTURAL FACTORS IN HARM PRODUCTION AND REDUCTION: LESSONS FOR HIV PREVENTION AMONG IDUs Tim Rhodes, UK EFFECTIVENESS OF DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT IN PREVENTION OF HIV AMONG IDUS Annabel Boys, UK EVIDENCE FOR ACTION: COMMUNITY - BASED OUTREACH HIV PREVENTION FOR INJECTING DRUG USERS: A REVIEW OF EVIDENCE - BASED FINDINGS Dave Burrows, AUSTRALIA |
15.30-17.00 Room: Kosovelova h. SESSION 55 Prisons and harm reduction Roundtable Chair: Olga Perhavc, SLOVENIA PEER EDUCATION IN A JUDICAL INSTITUTION IS NOT ONLY AN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE INDIVIDUAL TREATMENT PLAN; IT CAN ALSO BE A CRUCIAL METHOD IN THE REDUCTION OF DRUG USE Dolf Herder, THE NETHERLANDS HARM REDUCTION IN PRISONS IN ARGENTINA ; FIRST APPROACH TO REDUCE DRUG RELATED HARMS Silvia Inchaurraga, ARGENTINA HARM REDUCTION IN POLISH PRISONS Marzena Ksel, POLAND METHADONE TREATMENT IN PRISONS: IMPLEMENTING IN YOUR COMMUNITY Holly Catania, USA ADDRESSING DRUG USE IN PRISON: DRUG CULTURE, DRUG FREE WINGS, DIFFERENTIAL SANCTIONS AND MITIGATING THE HARM Maria Kevin, AUSTRALIA INTRODUCTION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN HEALTH PROMOTION IN THE RUSSIAN PENAL SYSTEM Natalia Khodakevich, RUSSIA |
15.30-17.00 Room: Štihova h. SESSION 108 Alcohol – policy and treatment Symposium Chair: Zdenka Čebašek Travnik, SLOVENIA BEHAVIOUR DISTURBANCES AND VIOLENT CRIMES COMMITTED BY ALCOHOLIC JUVENILES Irena Cajner Mraovič, CROATIA COST EFFECTIVE DRAMA SKILL FOR ALCOHOL AWARENESS IN INDIA BY GIRLS Neela Thaker, INDIA TRAFFIC SAFETY RISK - DRUG & ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION John Sayers, UK ALCOHOL AND DEMOGRAPHICAL CRISIS Yury Razvodovsky, BELARUS THE IMPACT OF LATER TRADING HOURS FOR HOTELS ON LEVELS OF VIOLENCE Tanya Chikritzhs, AUSTRALIA SCHOOL LEAVER CELEBRATIONS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA: REDUCING THE HARM Richard Midford, AUSTRALIA |
15.30-17.00 Room: E1 SESSION 16 Drugs, risks and harm reduction in European regions Symposium 03:30 - 05:00 Chair: Lucas Wiessing, EMCDDA DRUG USE AND HEALTH PROBLEMS IN RECREATIONAL LIFE Ruth Arias, SPAIN STRATEGIC CHOICES TO REDUCE OVERDOSE DEATHS Marcel Buster, THE NETHERLANDS YOUNG, NEW INJECTORS VERSUS OLDER, LONG-TERM INJECTORS AT SYRINGE EXCHANGE PROGRAMS IN RUSSIA AND CENTRAL/EASTERN EUROPE Don Des Jarlais, USA |
15.30-17.00 Room: E7 SESSION 51 The meanings and contexts of injecting Symposium 03:30 - 05:00 Chair: Jane Fountain, UK WHAT DO NEEDLES MEAN IN THE CONTEXT OF NEEDLE EXCHANGE PROGRAMS? C.J. Strike, CANADA HCV SCREENING AND INJECTING RISK BEHAVIOUR; FINAL RESULTS FROM A QUALITATIVE STUDY Noel Craine, UK THE CHANGING SCENARIO OF DRUG USE IN MANIPUR, INDIA - THE NEW EPIDEMIC Shantibala Koijam, INDIA RESILIENCE AND RISK IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE ATTACK ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER Naomi Braine, USA ETHNOGRAPHIC OF THE NIGHT: DRUGS, SEXUALITY AND HIV/AIDS O.F.R.L. Fernandez, BRAZIL HEPATITIS C PREVENTION: "MILLENNIUM JUNKY" AND OTHER MEANINGS OF SAFER INJECTION Mark Davis, UK |
15.30-17.00 Room: E3 SESSION 82 Lines of inclusion: becoming a citizen Symposium 03:30 - 05:00 Chair: Fabrice Olivet, FRANCE TOWARDS A SOCIAL WAY OF DEALING Theo van Dam, THE NETHERLANDS FROM PROTEST TO PARTNERSHIP: ROLE OF COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY ACTIVISM IN SHAPING NATIONAL DRUG STRATEGY Sean Cassin, IRELAND FROM DIRT TRACK TO SUPER HIGHWAY: WHO SAYS THAT THE INTERNET IS BETTER? Charles Roberts, AUSTRALIA AIDS LEADERSHIP AND HARM REDUCTION IN NEW YORK CITY Allan Clear, USA ACTIVISM AND CITIZENSHIP IN HARM REDUCTION Roni Lima, BRAZIL PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, DRUG USERS AND THE HEALTH SYSTEM Vazquez Acuna Martin Edgardo, BRAZIL |
| 17.15-18.30 Room: Linhartova h. SESSION 67 HIV treatment for positive users Symposium Chair: Mojca Matičič, SLOVENIA THE IMPORTANCE OF NUTRIENTS FOR DRUG USERS AND THE HIV/AIDS INFECTED Soreishim Mahong, INDIA BARRIERS TO PROVIDERS PRESCRIBING HAART TO MEDICALLY ELIGIBLE HIV DRUG USERS Anita Loughlin, USA TWO SUCCSESSFUL EXPERIENCE OF CARING & SUPPORTING HIV – INFECTED Dus IN RJ – BRAZIL Monica Malta, BRAZIL HEALTH CARE WORKERS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS HIV POSITIVE INJECTING DRUG USERS: A REVIEW Dave Burrows, AUSTRALIA IVDUS AND BARRIERS TO HAART: THE ROLE OF HIV TREATMENT ADVOCATES Andrew Reynolds, USA |
17.15-18.30 Room: Kosovelova h. SESSION 59 Women and harm reduction Roundtable Chair: Rachel Anderson, USA PREGNANT ADDICTED WOMEN, CARE FOR HER AND HER BABY Branka Čelan Lucu, SLOVENIA PROBLEMS OF WOMEN, INJECTING DRUG USERS PARTICIPATING IN THE PROJECT "HARM REDUCTION" IN THE CITY OF DUSHANBE Murtazokul Khidirov, TAJIKISTAN BREAKING THROUGH THE BARRIERS Delores Aulich, INDIA PROFILE OF FEMALE DRUG USERS MANIPUR - INDIA Shantibala Koijam, INDIA INTERVENTION USING FEMALE CONDOM IN A HARM REDUCTION PROJECT Paula Araujo, BRAZIL THE INVOLVEMENT OF WOMEN IN DRUG RELATED CRIME IN THE REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN Alfira Khidirova, TAJIKISTAN |
17.15-18.30 Room: Štihova h. SESSION 49 Sex work, IDUS and harm reduction Roundtable Chair: Samuel R. Friedman, USA HOW, IN EFFECTIVE WAY, REALIZE TASKS OF HARM REDUCTION IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF PEOPLE SELLING SEX IN POLAND Tatiana Duklas, POLAND HIV PREVENTION AMONG COMMERCIAL SEX-WORKERS IN THE HARM REDUCTION PROGRAM OF THE CITY OF PENZA Nadezhda Fedoseeva, RUSSIA WOMEN AGAINST RISK: A HARM REDUCTION RESPONSE TO COMERCIAL SEX WORK Luciano Colonna, USA SERVICES FOR STREET SEX WORKERS WHO USE DRUGES IN VILNIUS Rita Kriksciukaityte, LITHUANIA PREVENTING SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES AMONG INJECTING DRUG USERS IDUs AND THEIR SEXUAL PARTNERS Paulo Telles, BRAZIL |
17.15-18.30 Room: E1 SESSION 84 Management and organisation of harm reduction Symposium Chair: Dick Pates, UK ORGANIZING HARM-REDUCTION ACTIVITIES IN THE INFECTION HOSPITAL AMONG PATIENTS WITH HEPATITIS B AND C Alexander Lesnevskiy, REPUBLIC OF BELARUS ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT: OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO IMPROVED MANAGEMENT AND SERVICE DELIVERY Sue Simon, USA STAFF MANAGEMENT IN HARM REDUCTION UNIT IS BOTH AN ART AND A SCIENCE Pedrinho Barreto, INDIA INTEGRATING HIV/AIDS COMPONENT IN A NATION WIDE DRUG DEMAND REDUCTION PROGRAM IN INDIA Siddharth Singh, INDIA THE RISKS OF DAMAGE REDUCTION Castano Guillermo, COLOMBIA |
17.15-18.30 Room: E7 SESSION 6 Crack and cocaine: harm reduction and low threshold interventions for crack and cocaine users cocaine users Skills sharing Chair: Alex Harocopos, UK COCAINE USE AND HARM REDUCTION IN ARGENTINEAN CONTEXT Pablo Cymerman, ARGENTINA THERAPEUTIC USE OF CANNABIS BY CRACK COCAINE ADDICTS IN BRAZIL Dartiu Xsavier da Silvera, BRAZIL TEACHING OLD DOGS NEW TRICKS: ADAPTING DRUG TREATMENT SERVICES TO THE NEEDS OF CRACK USERS Alex Harocopos, UK HARM REDUCTION AMONG CRACK USER OF BAHIA-BRAZIL Maria Eugenia Nunez, BRAZIL LIVING ON CREDIT; DEVELOPMENT OF INTERVENTION STRATEGIES FOR PROBLEMATIC COCAIN SMOKERS John - Peter Kools, THE NETHERLANDS |
17.15-18.30 Room: E3 SESSION 128 Networking in Central and Eastern Europe Special interest meeting Chair: Emilis Subata, LITHUANIA |
Tuesday - 5. 3. 2002
| 08.30-09.00 Room: Linhartova h. Morning Countdown Chair: Ernst Buning, THE NETHERLANDS |
|||||
| 09.00-10.15 Room: Linhartova h. Plenary SESSION 111 Managing harm reduction in an era of social change Plenary Chair: Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, USA STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND HARM REDUCTION Vito Flaker, SLOVENIA MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH RISKS IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION: HARM REDUCTION AND OTHER APPROACHES Joanne Godinho, USA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND HARM REDUCTION Monica Beg, BANGLADESH |
|||||
| 10.45-12.15 Room: Linhartova h. Major SESSION 15 Ethnography in the drugs field Major Chair: Tim Rhodes, UK THE PRACTICE AND RELEVANCE OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND ETHNOGRAPHY FOR HARM REDUCTION Robert Power, UK ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE AUSTRALIAN DRUG FIELD David Moore, AUSTRALIA THE CRITICAL USE OF ETNOGRAPHY IN FORMULATING HARM REDUCTION POLICY Charles Kaplan, THE NETHERLANDS EXPERT KNOWLEDGE BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE AND THE FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE IN THE NARRATIVES OF DRUG USE Vera Grebenc, SLOVENIA DISCUSSANT Jean-Paul Grund, UNAIDS |
10.45-12.15 Room: Kosovelova h. Major SESSION 107 New trends in substitution treatment Major Chair: Annette Verster, ITALY THE RENAISSANCE OF METHADONE TREATMENT IN AMERICA Mark W. Parrino, USA NEW TRENDS IN PHARMACOTHERAPY AND POLICY IN EUROPE Icro Maremmani, ITALY ADVANCES IN OPIATE ADDICTION TREATMENT - HIGH DOSE BUPRENORPHINE (SUBUTEX) INTEGRATED WITH PSYCHO-SOCIAL TREATMENT: FOLLOW UP AT 12, 18 AND 24 MONTHS Luis Patricio, PORTUGAL BUPRENORPHINE AND HEROIN USE Sarah Lord, AUSTRALIA |
10.45-12.15 Room: Štihova h. Major SESSION 106 Drugs and alcohol in Slovenia: current dimensions and responses Major Chair: Milan Krek, SLOVENIA Organised by Governmental Office for Drugs PERSPECTIVES OF DRUG POLICY IN SLOVENIA Jože Hren, SLOVENIA ABOUT DRUG RELATED POLICY IN SLOVENIA Julijana Florjančič Kristan, SLOVENIA DRUG POLICY IN THE MINISTRY OF LABOR, FAMILY AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS Peter Stefanoski, SLOVENIA NATIONAL DRUG PROGRAMME Milan Krek, SLOVENIA |
10.45-12.15 Room: E3 Major SESSION 103 Drug policies in the CIS - signs of progress? Major Chair: Urban Weber, UNAIDS Session organized and supported by UNAIDS 10:45 - 12:15 CIS/NIS countries face rising drug use and an exploding HIV epidemic among drug users. Most inherited an abstinence-oriented approach. Speakers are chief narcologists and a legal reformer in the Russian parliament. They describe the evolution of their national drug policies, paying special attention to introducing needle exchange and substitution treatment. HARM REDUCTION IN LITHUANIA: POSITION OF TOLERANCE Emilis Subata, LITHUANIA MEDICAL ASPECT OF THE DRUG PROBLEM IN KYRGYZSTAN Tynchtykbek Assanov, KYRGYZSTAN FIGHTING THE DRUG MAFIA IS OFTEN REPLACED BY FIGHTING DRUG ADDICTS IN RUSSIA Aleksander Barannikov, RUSSIA |
||
| 13.15-15.15 Room: Linhartova h. SESSION 78 Syringe exchange: examples around the world Roundtable Chair: Sandra Batista, BRAZIL CENTER OF COEXISTENCE "IS OF LAW" Andrea Domanico, BRAZIL MEETING THE DEMAND FOR STERILE NEEDLES AMONG INJECTION DRUG USERS (IDUs)? Lynne Leonard, CANADA NEEDLE EXCHANGE PROGRAM FOCUSED ON COMMUNITY INTERVENTION IN BUENOS AIRES Graciela Touzé, ARGENTINA PROJECT STIGMA - TEN YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT Evita Leskovšek, SLOVENIA MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE: TECHNOLOGY AND NEEDLE EXCHANGE Yana Wirengard, USA NEEDLE EXCHANGE AND POLICE: HOW TO DEVELOP COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS Nina Grossman, USA NEEDLE EXCHANGE PROGRAM AND THE FIRST THERAPEUTIC CONTACT Agnieszka Sosnowska, POLAND MORE THAN CLEAN WORKS? THE ROLE OF A NEEDLE EXCHANGE IN REDUCING DRUG RELATED HARM Luke Mitcheson, UK THE EXPERIENCE OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT NINTH THE INTERNATIONAL FUND BY PROGRAM "HARM REDUCTION" Batesh Bapenova, KAZAKHSTAN HARM REDUCTION PROGRAM FOR IDUS IN BANGLADESH Shamin Rabbani, BANGLADESH A COMPARISON OF RISK TAKING BEHAVIOURS BETWEEN PHARMACY, FIXED SITE AND MOBILE VAN NEEDLE EXCHANGE USERS Cari Miller, CANADA NEEDLE AND SYRINGE EXCHANGE PROGRAMME FOR HEROIN DRUG USERS IN CELJE Nuša Konec Juričič, SLOVENIA |
13.15-15.15 Room: Kosovelova h. SESSION 38 Rapid Assessment - what is the evidence? Symposium Chair: Chris Fitch, UK RAPID ASSESSMENT IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS-FIELD ACCOUNTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Kevin Irwin, USA SUBSTANCE USE PREVENTION FOR REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS Franz Trautmann, THE NETHERLANDS RAPID SITUATION ASSESSMENT AND TRAINING AS A MEANS TO DEVELOPING STREET OUTREACH IN TOGLIATTI CITY, RUSSIA Andrey Rylkov, RUSSIA AN EVALUATION OF THE USE AND EFFICIENCY OF RAPID ASSESSMENT AND RESPONSE (RAR) ON SUBSTANCE USE AND SEXUAL HEALTH AMONG VULNERABLE YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE BALTIC COUNTRIES, BULGARIA AND POLAND M.C Donoghoe, HUNGARY RAPID ASSESSMENT DOES ACT AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE: FINDINGS FROM THE 2001 WHO RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION STUDY Chris Fitch, UK DISCUSSANTS Karl Dehne, AUSTRIA Dave Burrows, AUSTRALIA |
13.15-15.15 Room: Štihova h. SESSION 63 Cannabis decriminalisation and tobacco Symposium Chair: Alex Wodak, AUSTRALIA CIVIL PENALTIES FOR CANNABIS USE: WHAT ABOUT THE SUPPLY SIDE? Simon Lenton, AUSTRALIA DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY TOBACCO WORK Maureen Moore, SCOTLAND EVALUATION OF A SUBSTANCE USE PREVENTION PROJECT IMPLEMENTED IN ARMENIAN SCHOOLS Karine Markosyan, ARMENIA THE IMPACT OF CANNABIS "DECRIMINALISATION" IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA ON RATES OF SERIOUS ROAD INJURY Tanya Chikritzhs, AUSTRALIA IS TOBACCO SMOKING IN ADOLESCENCE SOMETHING MORE THAN JUST SMOKING? Mari Järvelaid, ESTONIA ALLIANCES: THEIR FORMATION AND ROLE IN TOBACCO CONTROL AT A NATIONAL AND LOCAL LEVEL Brian Pringle, SCOTLAND CANNABIS: IS BLUNKETT RIGHT OR WRONG? THE RECLASSIFICATION OF CANNABIS Tiggey May, UK LESSONS U.S. TOBACCO PREVENTION CAN LEARN FROM THE INDUSTRY Q. Paul DuongTran, USA |
13.15-15.15 Room: E1 SESSION 73 Research issues and methods Symposium Chair: Robert Broadhead, USA MEASURING THE PROPORTIONS OF INJECTING DRUG USERS WHO CONTACT HARM REDUCTION SERVICES Vanessa Higgins, UK VALIDITY OF DRUG USE REPORTING IN YOUNG DRUG USERS: SELF-REPORTS COMPARED TO HAIR TESTS Esther Welp, THE NETHERLANDS IMPLEMENTING A NATIONAL MONITORING EMERGING TRENDS NETWORK IN FRANCE Jean-Michel Costes, FRANCE THE COMMUNITY READINESS MODEL James Bolas, USA ETHICS, RESEARCH AND DRUG USERS Sharon Stancliff, USA A PEER RESEARCHER EXPERIENCES IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A VIDEO INTERVENTION PACKAGE Kristy Arden, AUSTRALIA RS & NON-EXCHANGERS DIFFER IN HARM REDUCTION & RISK BEHAVIORS Robert Heimer, USA THE HEROIN "DROUGHT" IN MELBOURNE: INDICATORS, BEHAVIOUR CHANGES, IMPACTS AND THE RETURN TO SUPPLY Paul Dietze, AUSTRALIA INVOLVING INJECTION DRUG USERS (IDU) IN RESEARCH: WHAT ARE ESSENTIAL CONDITIONS? Darlene Palmer, CANADA |
13.15-15.15 Room: E7 SESSION 65 Blood - borne infections and IDU Symposium Chair: Paulo Telles, BRAZIL HEPATITIS C VIRUS SCREENING AND TREATMENT IN AN ADDICTION OUT-PATIENT UNIT Pierre Goisset, FRANCE HIGH PREVALENCE OF HEPATITIS C AMONG YOUNG INJECTING DRUG USERS IN LONDON Ali Judd, UK THE DYNAMICS OF HIV AMONG IDU IN BRAZIL: EMPIRICAL AND THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS Waleska Caiaffa, BRAZIL DECLINING HIV/AIDS EPIDEMICS AMONG IDUs FROM 3 BRAZILIAN MAIN METROPOLITAN AREAS Daniela Piconez e Trigueros, BRAZIL CROSS-CULTURAL SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN HIV, HBV, AND HCV INFECTION AMONG INJECTING DRUG USERS (IDUS) Don Des Jarlais, USA CONTINUING TO AVERT AN EPIDEMIC: DRUG INJECTORS HIV PREVALENCE ENGLAND & WALES 1990-00 Vivian Hope, UK CLIENTS OF NEEDLE EXCHANGE SERVICES IN FINLAND Airi Partanen, FINLAND RISK PROFILE DIFFERENCES BY HIV STATUS AMONG MALE IDU WHO ARE MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN (MSM) OR HETEROSEXUAL (HM) Catherine Hankins, CANADA |
13.15-15.15 Room: E3 SESSION 71 Research on stimulants Symposium Chair: Jih-Heng Li, TAIWAN ECSTASY USE AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE: IMPLICATION FOR HARM REDUCTION Ave Talu, ESTONIA TRACKING THE EMERGENCE OF POTENT FORMS OF METHAMPHETAMINE IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA Libby Topp, AUSTRALIA THE DRUG ABUSE TREND AND HARM REDUCTION APPROACH IN ASIA Jih-Heng Li, TAIWAN INJECTING AND NON-INJECTING COCAINE USE IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA Sharlene Kaye, AUSTRALIA THE USE OF AMPHETAMINE, METAMPHETAMINE AND OTHER SYNTHETIC DRUGS BETWEEN PARTYGOERS IN SLOVENIA Matej Sande, SLOVENIA PEER SUPPORT AMONG AMPHETAMINE USERS Luk Van Baelen, BELGIUM |
| 15.30-17.00 Room: Linhartova h. SESSION 76 Monitoring of overdose mortality Symposium Chair: Emilis Subata, LITHUANIA ASSESSMENT OF RISK BEHAVIORS RELATED TO OVERDOSE AND MORTALITY AMONG IDUs IN MINSK Oleg Aizberg, BELARUS HOW SHOULD WE MONITOR OVERDOSE MORTALITY: ROUTINE MORTALITY STATISTICS AND/OR MORTALITY COHORT STUDIES? Matthew Hickman, UK AMBULANCE CALLS TO SUSPECTED DRUG OVERDOSES: ANALYSIS OF TRENDS IN NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA Louisa Degenhardt, AUSTRALIA OPIATE-RELATED DEATHS INVESTIGATED BY THE DUBLIN CITY AND COUNTY CORONERS,1998-2000 Ray Byrne, IRELAND THE EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH SURVEILLANCE OF NON-FATAL HEROIN OVERDOSE CASES VIA QUEENSLAND AMBULANCE SERVICE (QAS DATA) Jill White, AUSTRALIA |
15.30-17.00 Room: Kosovelova h. SESSION 35 Modelling prevalence, diffusion and interventions European Modelling Network Symposium Chair: Lucas Wiessing, EMCDDA Session supported by the EMCDDA/TSER European Drug Modelling Network THE PREVALENCE OF PROBLEM DRUG USE IN SCOTLAND Gordon Hay, UK PREVALENCE ESTIMATION OF COCAINE USE IN BARCELONA - CITY Antonia Domingo - Salvany, SPAIN THE MULTIVARIATE INDICATOR METHOD - DIFFERENT VARIANTS AND THEIR PROPERTIES Rita Augustin, GERMANY COMPARATIVE MULTI METHODS STUDY ON THE PREVALENCE OF THE ILLICIT USE OF HIGH RISK DRUGS IN THE GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBURG Gordon Hay, UK JOINT ESTIMATION OF THE LATENCY PERIOD DISTRIBUTION AND THE ONSET INCIDENCE OF HEROIN USE FOR MONITORING DRUG POLICY INTERVENTIONS Massimiliano Bultrini, ITALY EXPLORATION AND MODELLING OF DRUGS MISUSE IN ITALY: A SPACE-TIME APPROACH Massimiliano Bultrini, ITALY DYNAMIC DRUG POLICY: THE OPTIMAL TREATMENT AND PREVENTION MIX Gernot Tragler, AUSTRIA |
15.30-17.00 Room: Štihova h. SESSION 64 Dealing with the media Skill sharing Chair: Sandra Batista, BRAZIL ˝"SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL", HARM REDUCTION IN ROCK CONCERTS; NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR HARM REDUCTION IN ARGENTINA Silvia Inchaurraga, ARGENTINA DEALING WITH THE MEDIA Ruediger Schmolke, GERMANY INFORMATONAL SERVICES AND ADVOCACY TOOLS FOR DRUG USERS IN RUSSIA Katya Kotova, RUSSIA PEER EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF SYNTHETIC DRUGS Igor Zor, SLOVENIA DROGART INFO POINT Helena Hegler, SLOVENIA DEALING WITH THE MEDIA SPECIFICALLY ON DRUG AND HIV ISSUES Bradley Sellars, INDIA |
15.30-17.00 Room: E1 SESSION 132 Harm reduction case management: remaining client - centered Chair: James Bolas, USA |
15.30-17.00 Room: E7 SESSION 61 Drug education forum Roundtable Chair: Marsha Rosenbaum, USA THE ROLE OF DRUG PREVENTION EDUCATION IN REDUCING DRUG RELATED HARM Perminder Dhillon, UK HARM REDUCTION AS KEY POINT OF A REGIONAL AIDS PROGRAMME; ACCESS TO INFORMATION, TRAINING CONDOMS AND SYRINGES Raimundo Sabao, ARGENTINA THE NEW WORLD NEXT DOOR: TRAINING ON DRUGS AND AIDS, AIMED TO YOUNG PEOPLE IN ALBANIA Paolo La Marca, ITALY SERVICE PROVIDERS WORKING WITH DRUG USERS: HOW EFFECTIVE IS HARM REDUCTION TRAINING? Allan Clear, USA MAKING DRUG EDUCATION WORK Carol Holly, AUSTRALIA IMPROVING HARM REDUCTION AND DRUGS TRAINING, A REAL NEED IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Andrea Celentano, ARGENTINA REDUCTION OF DRUG RELATED HARM AT PUBLIC SCHOOLS Celi Denise Cavallari, BRAZIL |
15.30-17.00 Room: E3 SESSION 100 Participation in practice: recent developments in assessment methodology Symposium Session organized and supported by International HIV/AIDS Alliance Chair: Vyacheslav Kushakov, UK UNDERTAKING A RAPID ASSESSMENT AND RESPONSE (RAR) IN SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE (SEE): THE PERSPECTIVE OF VULNERABLE YOUNG PEOPLE Milos Loncarevic, YUGOSLAVIA PARTICIPATORY ASSESSMENTS AS A PROCESS TOWARDS BREAKING BARRIERS TO HARM REDUCTION Sirinate Piyajitpirat, THAILAND PARTICIPATORY ASSESSMENT ON HIV AND DRUG USE AMONG THE Dr. Mariani Akib Baraul, INDONESIA TAI LUE COMMUNITY ON THE THAI - LAO BORDER Jitlada Rattanaphanied, THAILAND A SERIES OF PARTICIPATORY COMMUNITY ASSESSMENTS IN UKRAINE: START UP OF INTERVENTIONS Ljudmila Shurpach UKRAINE RECENT RAPID ASSESSMENTS IN RUSSIA IN VIEW OF POTENTIAL RESPONSE AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Anya Sarang, RUSSIA |
| 17.15-18.30 Room: Linhartova h. SESSION 48 Methadone maintenance in CEE Symposium Chair: Ljubomir Okruglica, SLOVAKIA AN INTERNATIONAL DOCTORS LETTERS FORM FOR MMT-PATIENTS Hans-Guenter Meyer-Thompson, GERMANY THE ROLE OF SUBSTITUTION PROGRAMS IN THE PREVENTION OF HEROIN ADDICTS SOCIAL ISOLATION Slavko Sakoman, CROATIA THE ELIGIBILITY FOR METHADONE MAINTENANCE THERAPY IN A SAMPLE OF PATIENTS FROM A DETOX PROGRAM Carmen Mihalcea, ROMANIA MOTIVATIONAL INTERVENTIONS MODEL FOR METHADONE MAINTENANCE TREATMENT Alexsander Kantchelov, BULGARIA METHODS OF APPLICATION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF METHADONE SUBSTITUTION TREATMENT PROGRAMS IN POLAND BETWEEN 1992 AND 2001 Beata Karakiewicz, POLAND EVALUATION OF METHADONE MAINTENANCE TREATMENT PROGRAM BY THE ATTENDING PATIENTS Marek Beniowski, POLAND COMORBIDITY AND DIFFERENCES AMONG OUTPATIENT HEROIN ADDICTS Mercedes Lovrečič, SLOVENIA |
17.15-18.30 Room: Kosovelova h. SESSION 72 Injecting risk and syringe exchange Symposium Chair: Murdo Bijl, THE NETHERLANDS CONSTRUCTING OF A NET OF VOLUNTEERS: SECONDARY NEEDLE EXCHANGE, PEER EDUCATION Evgueni Kartchevski, RUSSIA RISK BEHAVIOUR REDUCTION SUSTAINED AMONGST NEEDLE EXCHANGE ATTENDERS IN SVERDLOVSK, RUSSIA Robert Power, UK SITUATIONAL FACTORS INFLUENCING DRUG INJECTING AND SYRINGE EXCHANGE PRACTICES IN TOGLIATTI CITY, RUSSIA: FINDINGS FROM RAPID ASSESSMENT Tim Rhodes, UK THE IMPACT OF INTERRUPTIONS IN DELIVERY OF IDU HIV PREVENTIVE MEASURES IN BELARUS Peter Vickerman, UK NEEDLE - SYRINGE EXCHANGE PROGRAM (NSEP): WHAT ABOUT COMING VULNERABLE POPULATION? Mohammad Omar Faruque, BANGLADESH REACHING OUT IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN DUBLIN Caroline Corr, IRELAND |
17.15-18.30 Room: Štihova h. SESSION 11 Drug users’ views Roundtable Chair: Janko Belin SLOVENIA IS BEING "OUT" IN ? David Thapa, INDIA LA CAJA DE PANDORA: A HARM REDUCTION JOURNAL PREPARED BY USERS OF A TREATMENT PROJECT Diego Sempol, URUGUAY SATISFACTION AND NEEDS OF DRUG USERS CONTACTING TREATMENT SERVICES Wouther O.I. Vanderplasschen, BELGIUM MIND THE GAP! USERS VIEWS ON TREATMENT SERVICES FOR OPIOID DEPENDENCE Matthew Southwell, UK STATUS OF WOMEN DRUG USERS (YAMUNA BAZAR, JAMA MASJID & DHOLAKWALA) DELHI Soreishim Mahong, INDIA |
17.15-18.30 Room: E1 SESSION 75 Ethnic minorities and harm reduction Symposium Chair: Nikolav Zakarij, BULGARIA PROVIDING SERVICES TO SOUTH ASIAN DRUG USERS: A MODEL FROM THE NORTH - WEST OF ENGLAND Nilam Prinjha, UK HOW 47 BLACK AND MINORITY ETHNIC COMMUNITY GROUPS CONDUCTED DRUG NEEDS ASSESSMENTS Jane Fountain, UK STRATEGIES TO RESIST RACISM WITHIN DRUG SERVICE PROVISION Nilam Prinjha, UK "MAKING THINGS EQUAL"; DELIVERING DRUG SERVICES TO SOUTH ASIAN COMMUNITIES IN THE UK Noreen Sheikh, UK WEE GOTTA GET OUTTA THIS PLACE: THE ROLE OF GEOGRAPHY IN HIV RISK Robert Heimer, USA |
17.15-18.30 Room: E7 SESSION 115 UNAIDS mid east Symposium Chair: Oussama Tawil, UNAIDS |
17.15-18.30 Room: E3 SESSION 131 INWD Special interest meeting Chaired by Anke Wevers, THE NETHERLANDS |
Tuesday, 5. 3. 2002
Special interesting session – “How to organise yourself as an interest group, local or national”
Room: Aids Foundation Robert/Project Stigma, Wolfova 8, Ljubljana
Chair: Theo Van Dam, The Netherlands
Wednesday - 6. 3. 2002
| 08.30-09.00 Room: Linhartova h. Morning Countdown Chair: Ernst Buning, THE NETHERLANDS |
|||||
| 09.00-10.00 Room: Linhartova h. Plenary SESSION 112 From exclusion to inclusion Plenary Chair: Evita Leskovsek, SLOVENIA WOMEN - INCLUSION & EXCLUSION Annie Madden, AUSTRALIA ROMA, DRUGS, EXCLUSION AND INCLUSION Jean-Paul C. Grund, UNAIDS THE ASUD MARSEILLE EXAMPLE Johana Tomasik, FRANCE |
|||||
| 10.00-11.00 Room: Linhartova h. Rolleston Oration Jimmy Dorabjee, INDIA |
|||||
| 11.30-13.00 Room: Linhartova h. SESSION 10 Drug policy reform and harm reduction Symposium Chair: Craig Reinarman, USA CONDONING AS A POLICY TECHNIQUE IN DUTCH AND BELGIAN DRUGS POLICY Hugo Durieux, THE NETHERLANDS THE TRIBUNALS AND HARM REDUCTION CONCERNING CHEMICAL DEPENDENTS Omar Alejandro Bravo, BRAZIL THE HISTORY OF UK HARM REDUCTION POLICIES FROM A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Herve Hudebine, FRANCE MEDICALIZATION CAN ONLY BE PART OF THE SOLUTION Fredrick Polak, THE NETHERLANDS LIMITATIONS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT ON SUPPLY REDUCTION Ton Smits, THAILAND DEVELOPING POLITICAL SUPPORT AMONG LEGISLATORS FOR REFORM OF DRUG SENTENCING LAWS Deborah Small, USA OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO HARM REDUCTION IN BRAZIL Paulo Teixera, BRAZIL |
11.30-13.00 Room: Kosovelova h. SESSION 21 Harm reduction in Russia Roundtable Chair: Asya Bidordinova, RUSSIA HARM REDUCTION PROGRAMME IN VOLVOGRAD Olga Shelkovnikova, RUSSIA PECULIARITIES OF REINFORCEMENT OF HARM REDUCTION PROGRAM IN TOGLIATTI Larissa Michailova, RUSSIA NEEDLE EXCHANGE PROGRAMS (NEPs) IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RF) NEED THE STATE SUPPORT Larissa Badrieva, RUSSIA SOCIAL REHABILITATION OF STAFF MEMBERS OF A HARM REDUCTION PROJECT. OMSK, RUSSIAN FEDERATION Sergej Katantsyev, RUSSIA WORKING TOGETHER WITH GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS/ FROM NEGLECTING TO COOPERATION Vladimir Musatov, RUSSIA THE PROGRAM "HARM REDUCTION" IN ASTRAKHAN Anatoly Chaplygin, RUSSIA HARM REDUCTION PROGRAMS IN PERVOURALSK, RUSSIAN FEDERATION Sergej Kozykov, RUSSIA HIV PREVENTION IN RUSSIA Asya Bidordinova, RUSSIA |
11.30-13.00 Room: Štihova h. SESSION 69 Drugs and young people: interventions Roundtable Chair: Neil Hunt, University of Kent, UK HARM REDUCTION PEER EDUCATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Sandra Fox, AUSTRALIA THE ROLE OF THE DROP-IN CENTERS FOR "STREET CHILDREN" IN HARM REDUCTION PROGRAMS Mikhail Akimov, RUSSIA THE SOUND OF REFLECTION INFO-POINT Marjeta Rupar, SLOVENIA YOUTH SERVICES AND DRUG USE-A HOLISTIC RESPONSE David Murray, AUSTRALIA SENSATION-SEEKING AND DIFFERENTIATED APPROACH TO HARM REDUCTION Danica Klempova, SLOVAKIA THE COMPLEX APPROACH TO A PROBLEM OF A NARCOTISM AMONG YOUTH IN SARATOV Luydmila Borisenko, RUSSIA AFTER CARE NEEDS OF YOUNG HOMELESS DRUG USERS Savita Luka Masih, INDIA THE PSYCHOSOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF DRUG USE BY YOUNG PEOPLE: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF LONGITUDINAL STUDIES John Macleod, UK SUBSTANCE USE AND SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR IN SAME SEX ATTRACTED (SSA) AND HETEROSEXUAL YOUNG PEOPLE John Howard, AUSTRALIA |
11.30-13.00 Room: E1 SESSION 62 Pharmacotherapy, treatment and care Roundtable Chair: Eduardo Polidori, ITALY AN EXPERIENCE WITH CARE CLIENTS IN SUBSTITUTION Charanjit Gurumayum, INDIA BUPRENORPHINE SUBSTITUTION AN EMINENT RESPONSE Raju Rajkumar, INDIA INTERWEAVING AVAILABLE SERVICES OF HR Nanao Haobam, INDIA OPIATE USE AND THE PILOT OPIATE SUBSTITUTION PROGRAMME IN ROSARIO, ARGENTINA Pablo Siri, ARGENTINA DRUG ABUSE DAY-CARE TREATMENT Maria Martinez Alonso, SWITZERLAND IMPACT OF ORAL SUBSTITUTION OF BUPRENORPHINE (ADNOK) ON INJECTING FREQUENCY OF IDUS IN DHOLAK WALA Nisheeth Rawat, INDIA |
11.30-13.00 Room: E7 SESSION 58 Social exclusion and vulnerability Roundtable Chair: Vito Flaker, SLOVENIA DRUG USERS RIGHTS: FROM DELINQUENCY TO SICKNESS Fabrice Olivet, FRANCE SOCIO-POLITICAL ATTITUDE TOWARD THE DRUG USERS IN BANGLADESH: THINK A LITTLE... Mohammad Omar Faruque, BANGLADESH STRATEGIC DISCLOSURE: HOW DRUG USERS DECIDE WHEN TO "COME OUT" ABOUT THEIR USE TO FURTHER POLITICAL GOALS Justin Woodruff, AUSTRALIA THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING "NORMAL" Peter Stefanoski, SLOVENIA DRUG USE, HIV /AIDS AND DISCRIMINATION: LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES Diane Riley, CANADA STIGMA OF DRUG USE AND ITS ROLE IN FUELLING THE HIV EPIDEMIC IN RUSSIA Liviana Calzavara, CANADA DISCUSSANT Ismet Cerić, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA |
11.30-13.00 Room: E3 SESSION 12 Drug use and sex work Symposium Chair: Sue Simon, USA Sponsored by OSI EPIDEMIOLOGICAL OVERVIEW Karl Dehne, Austria NEED FOR A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO SEX WORK Licia Brussa, THE NETHERLANDS PUBLIC POLICY AND HEALTH AND SAFETY IMPLICATIONS FOR SEX WORKERS IN COUNTRIES OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION Robin Montgomery, RUSSIA SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AND DRUG INJECTIONS AMONG MALE SEX WORKERS IN MINSK Aleh Yaromin, BELARUS HARM REDUCTION FOR SEX WORKERS: SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES OF SERVICE DELIVERY EFFORTS IN EASTERN EUROPE AND FSU Sue Simon, USA BEST PRACTICE ON HARM REDUCTION ACTIVITIES FOR PEOPLE INVOLVED IN COMMERCIAL SEX Alina Mirela Bocai, ROMANIA |
| 13.15-14.15 Room: Poster hall SESSION 24 Harm reduction experiences around the world Oral posters Chair: Allan Clear, USA Chaired by Allan Clear, Harm reduction coalition, USA ON SOME RESULTS TOWARDS THE ACTIVITY OF THE PROJECT “HARM REDUCTION IN THE CITY OF DUSHANBE” Murtazokul Khidirov, TAJIKISTAN FIVE YEARS OF HARM REDUCTION IN MANIPUR: WHERE ARE WE TODAY? Mukta Sharma, UK MISSION - HARM REDUCTION Jelena Kostic, YUGOSLAVIA DRUG HARM REDUCTION IN THE WORKPLACES Ari Saarto, FINLAND HARM REDUCTION AS A KEY STRATEGY FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE TO THE AIDS EPIDEMIC AMONG AND FROM IDUs IN THE CITY OF SAO PAULO, THE BIGGEST CITY IN BRAZIL Regina Bueno, BRAZIL HARM REDUCTION AMONG INTRAVENOUS DRUG USERS IN THE ARGENTINA REPUBLIC; NEW EFFORTS INVOLVING SYRINGES, INFORMATION AND OUTREACH WORK Gustavo Hurtado, ARGENTINA HIV HOT SPOT INDIA'S TROUBLED NORTH-EAST Sanjeev Mishra, AUSTRALIA THE PROJECT PRISONS - PROJECT OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION AIDS FOUNDATION ROBERT (SLOVENIA) Alenka Grošičar, SLOVENIA HARM REDUCTION IN ESTONIAN MASS MEDIA Marianne Paimre, ESTONIA |
13.15-14.15 Room: Poster hall SESSION 53 Outreach and peer education Oral posters Chair: Dave Burrows, AUSTRALIA BEHAVIOR CHANGE COMMUNICATION (BCC) FOR HIV/AIDS PREVENTION AMONG THE IDUS Nakib Hossain Bhuiyan, BANGLADESH DRUG USER SELF-HELP ORGANISATION: SECOND BREATH/WIND OF PROFESSIONAL OUTREACH WORKER Oleg Sergunin, RUSSIA PEER INTERVENTIONS: EMPOWERING YOUTH IN CHICAGO TO SHARE & PRACTISE HARM REDUCTION Karen Stanczykiewicz, USA MOBILE RESOURCE GROUP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FOR REACHING THE STREET INJECTING DRUG USERS (IDUs) OF CALCUTTA Sanjoy Bhattacharya, INDIA CRACK-SPECIFIC OUTREACH STRATEGIES Mark Kinzly, USA ZONE OUTREACH AS AN EFFECTIVE FORM OF WORK IN HARM REDUCTION PROGRAM Valery Harevich, BELARUS DOES ASSERTIVE OUTREACH WORK WITH DUAL DIAGNOSIS CLIENTS? Mike Blank, UK |
13.15-14.15 Room: Kosovelova h. SESSION 97 Media presentations Media display Chair: Ric Curtis, USA RAPID ASSESSMENT 101: WHAT IS "FIELDWORK"? Ric Curtis, Lohn Jay College, USA EFFICIENCY OF OPERATION OF THE MOBILE DISPENSARY IN BOR CITY IN NIZHNY NOVGOROD REGION Grigori Mochkovitch, RUSSIA |
13.15-14.15 ROOM: Poster hall SESSION 54 Blood - born virus and drug injecting Oral posters Chair: Ali Judd, UK INNOVATIVE HEROIN OVERDOSE PREVENTION PEER EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA Justin Woodruff, AUSTRALIA INCIDENCE OF HIV/HEPATITIS INFECTION AMONG HUNGARIAN HEROIN IDU-S Eszter Ujhelyi, HUNGARY FIRS AID OF OPIATE OVERDOSE Metka Debevec Švigelj, SLOVENIA INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF BLOOD - BORNE DISEASES AMONG THE PATIENTS IN METHADONE TREATMENT IN CENTRE FOR THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF DRUG ADDICTION LJUBLJANA BETWEEN 1999 AND 2001 Tamara Fras Stefan, SLOVENIA REALIZATION OF HARM REDUCTION PROGRAM IN SUMY (UKRAINE) BY NGO "PACE FORWARD TO MEETING YU" Natalya Hapiyenko, UKRAINE |
13.15-14.15 Room: Poster hall SESSION 60 Harm reduction in CEE Oral posters Chair:Anya Sarang, RUSSIA FORMATION OF THE NETWORK OF MOBILE HELP FOR IDUS IN VINNITSA OBLAST Vitaliy Polonets, UKRAINE HARM REDUCTION IN ULAN-UDE Sesegma Baglaeva, RUSSIA THE EXPERIENCE OF HARM REDUCE PROJECT IN ROSTOV-ON-DON, SOUTHERN RUSSIA Serguei Saoukhat, RUSSIA COUNSELLING SERVICES NETWORK ON HIV/AIDS FOR IDUs AND PLWA IN ODESSA, UKRAINE Natalya Kitsenko, UKRAINE HIV/AIDS PREVENTION AMONG IDUs AND CSWs IN UKRAINE Olena Kucheruk, UKRAINE HARM REDUCTION STRATEGIES IN KLAIPEDA - FIVE YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION Aleksandras Slatvickis, LITHUANIA ESTONIA: HARD WAY OF HARM REDUCTION Nelli Kalikova, ESTONIA ON PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM HIV- PREVENTION AMONG INJECTING DRUG USERS IN BELGOROD Valentina Tarakanova, RUSSIA HARM REDUCTION PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION IN VINNITSA OBLAST Oksana Orishchuk, UKRAINE THE PROGRAM OF "PROPHYLACTIC AID TO DRUG ADDICTS IN THE PERIOD OF ABSTENTION" Sergey Kulikov, RUSSIA CHANGE OF AUTHORIT'Y S ATTITUDE TO THE HR-PROGRAM IN SOLIGORSK Ludmila Truchan, THE REPUBLIC BELARUS FIRST ATTEMPT FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF A MUNICIPAL SERVICE ON DRUG PROBLEMS IN BULGARIA Dorita Krasteva, BULGARIA |
13.15-14.15 Room: Poster hall SESSION 93 Oral poster - main Oral posters Chair: Inchaurraga Silvia, ARGENTINA CHILDREN AND DRUGS Diana Taratuta, STOP DRUGS! RETROSPECTIVE STUDY PERFORMED ON 570 ADDICTS, INCLUDED INTO THE PROGRAM OF CENTER FOR TREATMENT OF ADDICTS TO PROHIBITED DRUGS Andrej Pišec, SLOVENIA MOTHERS` CARE FOR A CHILD Jasna Čuk, SLOVENIA IBOGAINE AS AN ANTIADDICTIVE DRUG FITS INTO THE HARM REDUCTION CONCEPT Roman Paškulin, SLOVENIA HARM REDUCTION PROGRAM IN NIKOLAEV DETENTION CAMP Nikolay Gagarkin, UKRAINE DRUGS AND YOUTH IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - ACTUAL SITUATION Mladen Milosavljević, BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA DIFFERENT DRUG USING SUBCULTURES IN ESTONIA Airi-Alina Allaste, ESTONIA VIOLENCE IN DRUG-FREE TREATMENT IN THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES Jacek Charmast, POLAND "ONE WAY TO INCREASE THE QUALITY OF THE MEDICAL AND SOCIAL FOLLOW-UP FROM DRUG-USERS, ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE WITH ASSOCIATED CHRONIC DISEASE" Sylvia Kynast, FRANCE EMPRONA - THE SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION CENTRE Snežana Bošković, YUGOSLAVIA IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF THE DUTCH SELF - CONTROL INFORMATION PROGRAMME (SCIP) IN OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES Edith A.S.M. Cramer, THE NETHERLANDS ABORIGINAL DRUG AND ALCOHOL COUNCIL OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA INCORPORATED, AUSTRALIA Carol Holly, AUSTRALIA THE USE OF ECSTASY IN TECHNO PARTIES IN BRATISLAVA Richard Zalesky, SLOVAKIA CLINICAL PHENOMENOLOGY OF HEROIN DEPENDENTS Nikola Vuckovič, YUGOSLAVIA HARM REDUCTION IN LISBON - AN OVERVIEW Luis Patricio, PORTUGAL TRAINING SOCIAL LEADERS FOR PREVENTION OF DRUGS Irma Olivares Maturana, CHILE OUTCOMES FROM THE PILOT OUTREACH PROGRAMME IN LJUBLJANA PRISON Bojana Klančar, SLOVENIA PARTICIPATORY COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT "HIV AND DRUG USE": KEY FINDINGS IN UKRAINE Andiy Klepikov, UKRAINE |
| 13.15-14.15 Room: Poster hall SESSION 95 Blood born viruses and IDU's Oral posters Chair: Martin Donoghoe, HUNGARY A BRIEF PRESENTATION OF INCIDENCE & PREVALENCE OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE & RELATED SECONDARY HARMS AMONG IRANIAN POPULATION SINCE THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION AT 1978. Bijan Nassirimanesh, IRAN THE ASSESSMENT OF THE SCALE OF DRUG USE AND READINESS OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO COVER 60 % OF IDUs WITH PREVENTIVE ACTIVITIES Sviatlana Brutskaya, BELARUS LINKS AMONG PROSTITUTION, DRUGS AND AIDS Regina de Paula Medeiros, BRAZIL RAPID ASSESSMENT AND RESPONSE (RAR) ON HIV/AIDS PREVENTION WITH YOUNG PEOPLE IN SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE Martin Donoghoe, HUNGARY GENDER DIFFERENCES IN HIV AND HCV INFECTIONS AMONG NEW PRISONERS IN NEW YORK STATE Keith Sabin, USA EPIDEMIC ASPECTS OF SPREAD OF DRUG ADDICTION Pavel Lavrov, RUSSIA INJECTING DRUG USE AND HIV INFECTION IN YEREVAN Samvel Grigoryan, ARMENIA ROLE OF TRAININGS IN REALIZATION OF HARM REDUCTION PROGRAM IN PENITENTIARY SYSTEM OF PSKOV AREA Iraida Sivatcheva, RUSSIA HARM REDUCTION PROBLEMS AMONG INJECTION AMPHETAMINE USERS Kristina Verakso, UKRAINE TECHNIQUES OF INJECTION DRUG USE IN MINSK, BELARUS Alexander Lesnevskiy, REPUBLIC OF BELARUS |
13.15-14.15 Room: Poster hall SESSION 96 Programmes around the world Oral posters Chair: Graciela Touzé, ARGENTINA LIVING WITH THE DAILY DOSE: ACCESS AND ADHERENCE OF IDUs TO HAART Jutta Engelhardt, THE NETHERLANDS DECENTRALIZATION OF SERVICES FOR DRUG USERS IN MACEDONIA Slavica Gaidadzis-Knezevic, THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA SUPPORTED HOUSING HARM REDUCTION PROGRAM ENDS HOMELESSNESS FOR NYC`S MENTALLY ILL Sam Tsemberis, USA QUESTIONNAIRE ON OPINIONS ON ILLEGAL DRUG PROBLEMS AMONG POLICY - MAKERS AND INHABITANTS OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY Branka Čelan Lucu, SLOVENIA THE LATIN AMERICAN HARM REDUCTION NETWORK (RELARD) IMPACT, CONQUESTS AND CHALLENGES Silvia Inchaurraga, ARGENTINA HARM REDUCTION CAMPAIGN IN BUENOS AIRES, GREAT BUENOS AIRES AND ROSARIO Graciela TouzéARGENTINA COMPULSORY AND VOLUNTARY CLIENTS TREATED IN THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF DRUG ABUSE IN THE CITY OF ZAGREB Ksenija Butorac,CROATIA PLAN AND PROGRAM OF FIGHTING DRUG ABUSE IN FEDERATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Nermana Mehić-Basara, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA |
||||
| 14.15-15.00 Lunch | |||||
| 15.00-17.00 Room: Linhartova h. SESSION 41 Prevalence, patterns and trends in injecting drug use; methods, needs and priorities Symposium 01:15 - 03:15 Chair: Paul Griffiths, UNDCP Chair: Paul Griffiths MEASURING DRUG INJECTING HIV RISK BEHAVIOUR: THE CRITICAL ISSUES Silvia Inchaurraga, ARGENTINA CHANGES IN PATTERNS OF DRUG USE FOLLOWING A REDUCTION IN HEROIN AVAILABILITY IN SYDNEY: THE HEROIN DROUGHT Carolyn Day, AUSTRALIA WHAT LESSONS CAN BE LEARNED FROM COMPARING OF THE DRUG TREATMENT DEMANDS IN VARIOUS EUROPEAN CITIES? Dušan Nolimal, SLOVENIA UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFUSION OF INJECTING DRUG USE: EXPERIENCE FROM AFRICA Rahmaan Lawal, NIGERIA AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO METHODS FOR ESTIMATING INCIDENCE OF HEROIN USE: FROM HUNT AND CHAMBERS TO BACK CALCULATION Matthew Hickman, UK |
15.00-17.00 Room: Kosovelova h. SESSION 8 Dance drugs and harm reduction Symposium Chair: Matej Sande, SLOVENIA PROTECTING THE HEALTH OF CLUB-GOERS: THE NEED FOR A SIMULTANEOUS FOCUS ON DRUGS & SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR Andrew Bennett, UK GROUP RESEARCH ZZV KOPER - REGIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH, KOPER, SLOVENIJA Mercedes Lovrečič, SLOVENIA PREVALENCE AND STRUCTURE OF DRUG USE WITHIN CROATIAN RAVE SCENE: CASE OF ZAGREB Teo Matković, CROATIA NO MORE PEACE, LOVE, UNITY AND RESPECT - IT IS WAR, FEAR, HARM AND BRUTALITY Nicky Bath, AUSTRALIA ORGANIZATION OF NETWORK FOR MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS AT RAVE EVENTS IN SLOVENIA FROM THE VIEW OF HARM REDUCTION Mina Kranjc, SLOVENIA ECSTASY: AMERICA`S NEW REEFER MADNESS Marsha Rosenbaum, USA PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE 2001 UK MIXMAG DRUG USE SURVEY Luke Mitcheson, UK EUROPEAN BASIC NETWORK FOR DANCE CULTURE AND DRUG AWARENESS Thierry Charlois, FRANCE |
15.00-17.00 Room: Štihova h. SESSION 56 Prison as a risk environment for blood-borne viruses Roundtable Chair: Heino Stöever, GERMANY HIV PREVENTION INITIATIVE IN PRISONS` PROJECT Nurnabat Aimukhammedova, TURKMENISTAN THE SPECIAL ROLE IN A POSSIBILITY OF PROPAGATION HIV/AIDS IN THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC Raushan Abdildaeva, KYRGYZSTAN HIV, HEPATITIS AND TUBERCULOSIS IN SLOVENIAN PRISONS Evita Leskovšek, SLOVENIA IS IMPRISONMENT OF DRUG INJECTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HEPATITIS B&C INFECTION? Thomas Paine, UK INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE WITH HARM REDUCTION IN PRISONS: WHAT THE U.S. CAN LEARN Andrew Reynolds, USA HIV, HCV AND RELATED RISK BEHAVIOUR AMONG IDU REPORTING RECENT IMPRISONMENT Margaret MacDonald, AUSTRALIA PREVENTION OF HIV/AIDS, HEPATITIS AND STD IN PRISONS OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD REGION Elena Beliaeva, RUSSIA INTAKE PREVALENCE OF BLOOD BORNE PATHOGENS AMONG INCARCERATED MEN AND WOMEN IN RHODE ISLAND: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT Grace Macalino, USA EVALUATION OF RISKY ATTITUDE AND BEHAVIOR IN PRISONS OF MOLDOVA Dumitru Laticevschi, MOLDOVA HR NEEDED IN PRISONS OF EASTERN EUROPE AND FORMER SOVIET UNION Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, USA HARM REDUCTION MEASURES IN PRISONS-EUROPEAN OVERVIEW STUDIES Heino Stöever, GERMANY |
15.00-17.00 Room: E1 SESSION 74 Legislative models in different countries Symposium Chair: Igor Lukšič, SLOVENIA THE WEST AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY DRUG SUMMIT - A VEHICLE FOR HARM REDUCTION IN DRUG POLICY? Simon Lenton, AUSTRALIA CALIFORNIA `S PROPOSITION 36: THE FIRST NINE MONTHS Daniel N. Abrahamson, USA A HARM REDUCTION APPROACH TO DRUG CONSUMPTION: THE PORTUGUESE DRUG POLICY James Paul Kahan, THE NETHERLANDS PROGRESS IN SETTING HARM REDUCTION POLICY WITHIN A PUNITIVE DRUG LEGISLATION SYSTEM IN HUNGARY Judit Honti, HUNGARY REMEDIAL EFFECTS OF THREE LEGISLATIVE MODELS (A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS) Natalia McKinstry, USA REVIEW OF POLISH DRUG LEGISLATION AND ITS IMPACT ON HARM REDUCTION PROGRAMS Justyna Sobejko, POLAND |
15.00-17.00 Room: E7 SESSION 77 Opiate overdose prevention and intervention Symposium Chair: BYSTANDER RESUSCITATION ATTEMPTS OF HEROIN OVERDOSE VICTIMS DOES IT IMPROVE OUTCOMES? Paul Dietze, AUSTRALIA RESEARCH PROJECT RAISING PUBLIC HEALTH AWARENESS ON OPIATE OD PROBLEM Anya Sarang, RUSSIA THE OXYGEN PROJECT: A MULTI-PRONGED RESPONSE TO OPIATE OVERDOSE IN THE UNITED STATES Heather Edney-Meschery, USA PREHOSPITAL OPIOID OVERDOSE (OD) IN COPENHAGEN Torben Ishoy, DENMARK IS PREHOSPITAL OPIATE OVERDOSE ALWAYS A COMPLICATION TO DRUG ADDITION? S. Hogskilde, DENMARK THE DRUG OVERDOSE VISITATION (DOV) PROJECT: A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY FOR DRUG REFERRAL Ron Henderson, AUSTRALIA THE HISTORY OF WA USERS STRUGGLE TO INFLUENCE POLICY ON THEIR ACCESS TO NALOXONE Justin Woodruff, AUSTRALIA |
15.00-17.00 Room: E3 SESSION 101 Drug Use and HIV among the Roma of Eastern Europe: Perspectives on Community Health and Human Rights Symposium Chair: Jean-Paul C. Grund, UNAIDS HIV PREVENTION INITIATIVES FOR ROMA INJECTING DRUG USERS Elena Yankova, BULGARIJA ALCOHOL AND SOLVENT USE IN ROMA COMMUNITY Tatiana Hiearova, SLOVAC REPUBLIC A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE STATE AND THE ROMA IN EASTERN EUROPE: A CASE STUDY OF ROMA AND HEALTH CARE Andor Ürmos, HUNGARY DISCUSSANT Rumyon Russinov, HUNGARY |
Wednesday - 6. 3. 2002 (11:30 – 13:00)
Special interesting session – “The needs of international support to each other and the need of international drug users network”
Room: Aids Foundation Robert/Project Stigma, Wolfova 8, Ljubljana
Chair: Theo Van Dam, The Netherlands
Thursday - 7. 3. 2002
| 09.00-09.30 Room: Linhartova h. Morning Countdown Chair: Ernst Buning, THE NETHERLANDS |
|||||
| 09.30-10.45 Room: Linhartova h. Plenary SESSION 113 Harm reduction and policy reform Chair: Asya Bidordinova, RUSSIA NO SMOKING Rastko Močnik, SLOVENIA THOSE WE LEAVE BEHIND: DRUG POLICY AND THE POOR Corinne Carey, USA THE ROLE OF POLITICIANS IN PROMOTING POLICY CHANGES Paulo Teixeira, BRAZIL |
|||||
| 11.15-12.30 Room: Linhartova h. Major SESSION 83 IDUs and sexually transmitted HIV epidemics Chair: Dave Burrows, AUSTRALIA WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH IDU-DRIVEN HIV EPIDEMICS WILL GENERATE SECOND-WAVE SEXUALLY- TRANSMITTED HIV EPIDEMICS? Catherine Lowndes, UK MODELLING THE SPREAD OF HIV IN RUSSIA: THE INTERACTION OF SEX AND WORK INJECTING DRUG USE Nicholas Grassly, UK POTENTIAL IMPACT OF HIV AMONG IDUS ON HETEROSEXUAL TRANSMISSION IN INDIA Don Des Jarlais, USA DISCUSSANT Svyatoslav Plavinsky, RUSSIA; Robert Heimer, USA |
11.15-12.30 Room: Kosovelova h. Major SESSION 25 Heroin trials Chair: Alexandre Berlin, FRANCE HEROIN ASSISTED TREATMENT FOR OPIATE ADDICTS - THE SWISS EXPERIENCE Ambrose Uchtenhagen, SWITZERLAND "GERMAN HEROIN TRIALS" Michael Krausz, GERMANY DUTCH HEROIN TRIAL: INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE MEDICAL CO-PRESCRIPTION OF HEROIN Peter Blanken, THE NETHERLANDS |
11.15-12.30 Room: Štihova h. Major SESSION 57 Drugs, war and conflict Open SESSION The production and transit and supply of illicit drugs is often linked with countries and regions with weak state systems, internal conflicts and wars. This moderated discussion features an international panel and audience participation to examine global, regional and local links between drugs, wars and conflicts. Moderator: Patrick Aeberhard, FRANCE Erkin Nurmamatov, KYRGYZSTAN Tariq Zafar Syed, PAKISTAN Ernie Drucker, USA Asya Bidordinova, RUSSIA Murtazokul Khidirov, TAJIKISTAN Silvia Inchaurraga, ARGENTINA Gustavo Hurtado, ARGENTINA |
|||
| 13.30-15.15 Room: Linhartova h. SESSION 99 Addressing HIV/AIDS vulnerability in harm reduction programmes for high risk drug users users Symposium Chair: Andrew Ball, WHO Organized by WHO Department of HIV/AIDS CONCEPTS OF HIV/AIDS RISK AND VULNERABILITY Peter Aggleton, UK YOUNG PEOPLE, SUBSTANCE USE AND HIV: ASSESSING AND ADDRESSING COMPLEX VULNERABILITY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE SIX BALKAN COUNTRIES Jane Gronow, BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA SUBSTANCE USE, DRUG RELATED DEATH AND HIV/AIDS VULNERABILITY AFTER INCARCERATION Heino Stoever, GERMANY GAY, YOUNG AND INJECTING John Howard, AUSTRALIA |
13.30-15.15 Room: Kosovelova h. SESSION 22 Harm reduction and criminal justice settings: can it work? Symposium Chair: Paul Turnbull, UK HARM REDUCTION INCLUDED IN POLICE TRAINING: THE INTERNATIONAL HARM REDUCTION DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM'S POLICY INITIATIVE Monica Ciupagea, HUNGARY AGGRAVATION OF CRIMINAL POLICY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES Balazs Denes, HUNGARY DISCOURSE CONCERNING DRUGS IN DISTRITO FEDERAL PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS Omar Alejandro Bravo, BRAZIL DRUG COURTS: HARM REDUCTION WITHIN THE U.S. CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Deborah Small, USA WHAT CO-OPERATION BETWEEN POLICE AND SOCIAL WORK? Christian Buchan, SWITZERLAND HARM REDUCTION IN UK AND ITALIAN PRISONS: THE GAP BETWEEN POLICY AND IMPLEMENTATION Morag MacDonald, UK |
13.30-15.15 Room: Štihova h. SESSION 4 Alcohol - treatment Symposium Chair: Flavio Poldrugo, ITALY AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ON PARTNER ABUSE FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT STAFF Barb Rindels, USA TREATMENT OF RESISTANT ALCOHOLIC FAMILY SYSTEMS Ivan Dimitrijevic, YUGOSLAVIA IS ESTIMATING ECONOMIC COSTS AND BENEFITS OF SUBSTANCE USE A SENSIBLE APPROACH? Alfred Uhl, AUSTRIA DEVELOPING A DRUG & ALCOHOL SERVICE FOR UNDER 16s -A MULTI -AGENCY Margot Ferguson, SCOTLAND STREET DRINKERS DAY CENTRE-A HARM REDUCTION SERVICE IN BRIGHTON Jennifer Bennett, UK HOLISTIC APPROACH OF THE SOCIAL COUNSELLING CENTRE ON ALCOHOLISM IN LJUBLJANA TO THE PROBLEM OF ALCOHOLISM Ksenija Ramovš, SLOVENIA SAVE MARRIAGE PROJECT WEAPON AGAINST ALCOHOLISM Poonam Chablani, INDIA THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE LEVEL OF VODKA CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA AND ALCOHOL RELATED MORTALITY RATE: RESULTS OF TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS Yury Razvodovsky, BELARUS |
13.30-15.15 Room: E1 SESSION 68 Drug user organizing in CEE and the NIS Skill sharing Chair: Daan van der Gouwe, THE NETHERLANDS SUPPORTING USER ORGANIZING: CHALLENGES & APPROACHES FROM A DONOR PERSPECTIVE Matthew Curtis, USA USERS ORGANIZING IN CEE/FSU: PRACTICAL SUPPORT FROM WESTERN EUROPE Daan van der Gouwe, THE NETHERLANDS DRUG USER ORGANIZING IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND FORMER SOVIET UNION: OBSTACLES AND CHALLENGES Daan van der Gouwe, THE NETHERLANDS SELF-HELP IN RUSSIA: FUTURE DEVELOPMENT Vitalik Melnikov, RUSSIA THE MAIN DIRECTIONS OF WORK OF DRUG USERS SELF GROUP "KOLODETS" Peter Markelov, RUSSIA USERS ORGANIZATION - THE NEXT STEP TOWARDS SOCIAL INTEGRATION Kestutis Butkus, LITHUANIA |
13.30-15.15 Room: E3 SESSION 50 Evaluation of pharmacotherapies Symposium Chair: Jasna Čuk, SLOVENIA MAINTAINING OR ENABLING?- METHADONE TREATMENT WITHIN THE IRISH CONTEXT Marie Lawless, IRELAND AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL EVALUATION OF PHARMACOTHERAPIES FOR OPIOID DEPENDENCE (NEPOD) Susannah O´Brien, AUSTRALIA PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY AMONG FEMALE DRUG USERS IN GLASGOW, SCOTLAND Gail Gilchrist, UK FROM REHABILITATION TO RISK MANAGEMENT: THE GOALS OF METHADONE PROGRAMS IN CANADA Bastien Quirion, CANADA THE USE OF HARM REDUCTION STRATEGIES IN DANISH METHADONE MAINTENANCE PROGRAMMES Vibeke Asmussen, DENMARK FOLLOW UP STUDY OF SUBJECTS IN A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF METHADONE TREATMENT IN PRISON Kate Dolan, AUSTRALIA THE IMPACT OF INITIATING METHADONE MAINTENANCE TREATMENT ON PATTERNS OF DRUG USE AND OTHER RISK BEHAVIORS IN VANCOUVER, CANADA Mark Tyndall, CANADA |
|
| 15.30-16.45 Room: Linhartova h. SESSION 31 Imitation and prevention of injecting risk Symposium Chair: Lucas Wiessing, EMCDDA TO EXAMINE SOCIAL FACTORS OF INJECTION INITIATION AMONG YOUNG INJECTION AND NON-INJECTION DRUG USERS IN BALTIMORE, HD, USA Susan Sherman, USA DRUG TRANSITIONS-OPPORTUNITIES TO REDUCE INJECTING AND INJECTING-RELATED HARM Neil Hunt, UK TRANSITIONS TO INJECTION DRUG USE: A REVIEW Elise Roy, CANADA YOUNG INJECTORS: PREDICTING RISK-USING EQUIPMENT AFTER SOMEONE ELSE HAS USED IT? John Howard, AUSTRALIA WAR ON TERRORISM - TRIGGERING INJECTING DRUG USE IN PAKISTAN; STRATEGIES AND PROGRAMS TO MINIMIZE DAMAGE Tariq Zafar Syed, PAKISTAN |
15.30-16.45 Room: Kosovelova h. SESSION 79 Crossing borders Symposium Chair: Gorana Flaker, SLOVENIA MESSAGES OF HOPE: IMPLICATIONS OF BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HISTORY FOR HARM REDUCTION IN EASTERN EUROPE AND RUSSIA Samuel R. Friedman, USA PATTERNS AND CHALLENGES OF DRUG-RELATED MIGRATION TO POLAND FROM THE EAST Maria Salivonenko, POLAND DRUG DEMAND AND HARM REDUCTION: EXCHANGES OF POLICY AND PRACTICE IN PAKISTAN AND UK Noreen Sheikh, UK ARTIFICIAL CRISES OF SMUGGLED IV`S FROM INDIA AT THE BORDER AREAS OF BANGLADESH: INCREASE THE ABSCESS CASES, MOBILITY AND VULNERABILITY TO HIV/AIDS AMONG THE IDU`S Tareque Golam, BANGLADESH INDO-BANGLADESH BORDER-A CONTEXTUAL FACTOR IN INCREASING DRUG RELATED HARM Debashish Das, INDIA DRUGS SMUGGLING AND VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (STUDY AT THE TAJIK-AFGHAN BORDER) Murtazokul Khidirov, TAJIKISTAN |
15.30-16.45 Room: Štihova h. SESSION 32 Integrating Policy Research and Advocacy Symposium Chair: Simon Boerboom, THE NETHERLANDS TRANSFORMING HARD DATA INTO HARM REDUCTION POLICY: THE NALOXONE EXPERIENCE Daniel N. Abrahamson, USA POLICY RESEARCH AND POLICY CHANGE: LESSONS FROM THE PROJECT ON HARM REDUCTION IN THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM Scott Burris, USA HARM REDUCTION LAW AND POLICY A RESOURCE NETWORK FOR EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION Joseph Welsh, USA DURA-LEX Marcelo Bueno M. Carneiro, BRAZIL A RAPID ASSESSMENT PROCESS TO DESCRIBE POLICY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY Zita Lazzarin, USA |
15.30-16.45 Room: E1 SESSION 87 National and structural interventions to prevent blood born virus transmission Chair: Robert Haemmig, SWITZERLAND Symposium PREDICTORS OF COMMUNITY VULNERABILITY TO HIV AMONG INJECTING DRUG USERS IN THE USA Barbara Tempalski, USA AUSTRALIA`S NATIONAL HEPATITIS C EDUCATION CAMPAIGN TARGETING INJECTING DRUG USERS David Stanley, AUSTRALIA EVALUATING THE SPATIAL DIFFUSION PATTERNS OF THE AIDS CASES IN SAO PAULO STATE, BRAZIL Paulo Telles, BRAZIL ERECTING PYRAMIDS: BUILDING DIVERSIFIED HIV PREVENTION AND TREATMENT SYSTEMS FOR INJECTING DRUG USERS IN EASTERN EUROPE Jean-Paul C. Grund, UNAIDS HIGH RATES OF HIV PREVALENCE AND INCIDENCE AND ASSOCIATED RISK FACTORS AMONG YOUNG Cari Miller, CANADA |
15.30-16.45 Room: E3 SESSION 86 Reorienting services for harm reduction Symposium Chair: Anya Sarang, RUSSIA SYSTEMATIC INTEGRITY OF HIGH, MEDIUM AND LOW THRESHOLD PROGRAMMES FOR RESOLVING THE SOCIAL PROBLEM OF ADDICTION Jože Ramovš, SLOVENIA THE MONAR ASSOCIATION AND HARM REDUCTION PROGRAMS Jadwiga Wladon, POLAND HARM REDUCTION IN A DANISH 12 STEP DOMINATED COMMUNITY Helle Vibeke Dahl, DENMARK YOUNG PEOPLE WORKING WITH YOUNG IDUs Vera Da Ros, BRAZIL IMPACT OF SELF HELP GROUP IN INTERVENTION PROGRAM Birjit Konjengbam Singh, INDIA HARM REDUCTION: FROM INFERIORITY TO INVISIBILITY John Ryan, AUSTRALIA Reorienting service for harm reduction |
|
| 17.00-18.15 Room: Linhartova h. Closing SESSION Chair: Gerry Stimson, UK |