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NEW ADDITIONAL SPEAKER - Commander Brian Paddick
 

Thursday 12th June
7.00pm Pre-conference dinner



Friday 13th June
Chair -
Annette Dale-Perera, Director of Quality, National Treatment Agency.

10.00am Chair introduction

10.15am Welcome from the Welsh Assembly - TBC

10.30am Harm reduction - update and prospects
Gerry Stimson, Director, The Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour

11.00am Criminal justice, harm reduction & the National Treatment Agency
Nino Maddalena, Criminal Justice Manager, National Treatment Agency

11.30am Coffee

12.00pm Harm reduction in prison
Dr Kate Dolan, Senior lecturer, National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre,
University of South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

12.30pm Hard cases in hard places:
Partnerships for harm reduction in Dublin communities

Paul Quigley, Dept of Epidemiology and Public Medicine, Institute of Clinical Science, Queens Univ, Belfast, NI

1.00pm Lunch

2.00pm Workshops

  • What users want - Beryl Poole & Alan Joyce, The Alliance
  • Best practice harm reduction - Neil Hunt & Danny Morris, UKHRA
  • The ultimate harm reduction: Good treatment - Dr Noel Craine, Research Scientist, PHLS in Wales & Ian Smith, Research Manager, Salford and Trafford SMS
  • Brief alcohol interventions - Gerald Bennett, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Dorset Healthcare Trust
  • Reducing drug-related deaths - Jon Derricott, UKHRA
  • Advocates for harm reduction - Peter McDermott, UKHRA & Ian Wardle, Lifeline

3.00pm Coffee

3.30pm A tough rock to crack
Promoting a harm reduction approach with users & professionals
Matthew Southwell, Director, Traffasi

4.00pm Accommodating drug users
Caroline Lamont, Hostel Services Manager, The Single Homeless Project

4.30pm A future for harm reduction?
Kevin Flemen, Freelance writer and trainer

5.00pm Close

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