- INDEX - WELCOME MESSAGES - COMMITTIES - SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME - OFFICIAL LANGUAGE - TYPES OF SESSIONS - TRAINING - EXHIBITION - IMPORTANT DEADLINES - CALL FOR PAPERS - ABSTRACT SUBMISSION INFORMATION - REGISTRATION - HOTEL ACCOMMODATION - GENERAL INFORMATION - LOCAL INFORMATION - SOCIAL PROGRAMME - CORRESPONDENCE AND INFORMATION - ORGANISERS AND SPONSORS - REGISTRATION FORM - ABSTRACT FORM - WOMEN AND DRUGS - 12nd HR CONFERENCE - INDIA 2001

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

FINAL PROGRAM

PRESENTERS (PRESENTATIONS)

The 13th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm will be a major global arena for science and research, discussion, education, training and networking to reduce the health, social and economic harms associated with drugs (including alcohol and tobacco).

Raising public awareness, influence in policy, legislation, reducing harm of illicit drug use, reduction in criminality, in infectious diseases, hepatitis, aids, overdoses…

The Conference theme is the impact of social change and transitions on drug use and harms.

 

Keynote opening address

Drugs, health, human rights and social change

 

Plenary sessions

Sunday 3 March

Keynote opening address
Aryeh Neier. Open Society Institute, USA. Drugs, health, human rights and social change

Monday 4 March

Social change and transitions: lines of inclusion and exclusion

Martin Mckee (UK) Social and economic transitions, drugs and alcohol
Nora Stojanovik (Macedonia) Against marginalisation
Rastko Mocnik (Slovenia) Social change and substance use in the Balkans

Tuesday 5 March

Managing harm reduction in an era of social change
Joanne Godinho (World Bank, USA) Developing HIV/AIDS strategies and
programmes in countries in transition
Vito Flaker (Slovenia) Structural change and harm reduction
Monica Beg (Bangladesh) Community development and harm reduction

Wednesday 6 March

From exclusion to inclusion

Jean Paul Grund (Austria) Roma, drugs, exclusion and inclusion
TBA Drug users' involvement in policy change
TBA Women - Inclusion/exclusion

Thursday 7 March

Harm reduction and policy reform

Craig Reinarman (USA) Drug policy reform-a sociological and political
critique
Paulo Teixeira (Brazil) The role of politicians in promoting policy change
Corinne Carey (USA) Welfare and inclusion

 

Major sessions

Major sessions are planned on

Innovations in substitution treatment

Harm reduction in Slovenia

Drugs, war and conflict

Drug policy in Europe (including implications for accession countries)

Criminal justice interventions

Enabling environments

Politicians in policy reform

Alcohol and harm reduction

Harm reduction and prevention

Decriminalising cannabis and drug policy reform

Drugs ethnography

Coverage of HIV prevention interventions

Scaling up harm reduction

Cultural representations of drugs

trafficking, migration and transition

HIV/IDU in Russia/NIS

Dance drugs

Vulnerability

Drug use and sex work

Modelling intervention effectiveness

health impact of transitions

Donors and harm reduction

Prevention of initiation to injecting

Harm reduction and abstinence programmes

Harm reduction around the world

Advances and setbacks

Drug use, AIDS and discrimination

Overdose

HIV and STI associated with drug injecting.

 

Symposia, roundtable and other sessions are proposed on a wide range of topics (note that this list does not exclude sessions on other topics, depending on abstract submissions).

Advances in drug policies around the world

Advocacy

Agonist pharmacotherapy

Brief interventions

Building research capacity

Coca leaves substitution

Cost-effectiveness

Crop eradication impacts

Developing countries

Drug law reform

Drug policies

Drug treatment systems

Drug use patterns

Epidemiology

Estimating prevalence of drug use

Ethics and harm reduction

Evaluation

Geographic diffusion and modelling

Global trends in drug injecting

Globalisation

Harm reduction and alcohol

Harm reduction and supply side factors

Health and social care for HCV positive people

Health promotion

Hepatitis B and C

Heroin trials

HIV/AIDS, STI and TB care

Information collection and global monitoring

Law enforcement

Legal aspects of harm reduction

Medical Marijuana

Modelling the HIV epidemic

Multi agency dialogue

Needle exchange

NGO development

Outreach

Principles of harm reduction

Public health and public security

Rapid assessment

Research methods

Resource mobilisation

Safe injection rooms

Sexual health

Social marketing

STIs and drugs

Sustainability

Tobacco

Treatment

Violence

Vulnerable groups

- INDEX - WELCOME MESSAGES - COMMITTIES - SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME - OFFICIAL LANGUAGE - TYPES OF SESSIONS - TRAINING - EXHIBITION - IMPORTANT DEADLINES - CALL FOR PAPERS - ABSTRACT SUBMISSION INFORMATION - REGISTRATION - HOTEL ACCOMMODATION - GENERAL INFORMATION - LOCAL INFORMATION - SOCIAL PROGRAMME - CORRESPONDENCE AND INFORMATION - ORGANISERS AND SPONSORS - REGISTRATION FORM - ABSTRACT FORM - WOMEN AND DRUGS - 12nd HR CONFERENCE - INDIA 2001