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