WFAD 2012 Programme | World Federation Against Drugs

WFAD 2012 Programme

Monday, May 21

08:00 - 09:30	Registration
09:30 - 10:40	Official Inaguration H.M. Queen Silvia of Sweden will open the forum Maria Larsson, Minister for Children and the Elderly, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden Anna König Jerlmyr, Deputy Mayor for Social Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden Robert L. DuPont, MD, President, Institute of Behaviour and Health, USA Moderator: Sven-Olov Carlsson
10:40 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:15	Plenary Session Roberto Tarazona Ponte, Dr., Director of Caritas del Peru's National Drugs and First Aid Program, the Vatican Gus Jaspert, Head of the Drugs and Alcohol Unit, UK Viktor Ivanov, Director, Federal Narcotic Service of Russia R. Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, USA Moderator: Sven-Olov Carlsson
12:15 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 15:00	Special Sessions 1 - Psychosocial treatment of cannabis disorders Results from a manual based treatment programme at Maria Youth Centre, Stockholm, Sweden Thomas Lundqvist, PhD & Clinical Psychologist, Drug Addiction Treatment Centre, Lund Sweden Moderator: Kerstin Käll 2 - Children Have the Right to be Protected from Illicit Drugs Of all the international human rights conventions there is only one that mentions illicit drugs; the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, article 33. How does this align with the UN drug conventions? Should we shift focus in drug policy from the adult user to the non-using child? What are the practical implications? Roxana Stere, PhD student, SNSPA University, Romania Saul Takahashi, Human Rights Lawyer, Japan Moderator: Calvina Fay 3 - Out of Treatment and Out of Prison - The Importance of a Sober Place to Live A special session about the importance of after-care, re-integration into society, acceptance, and sustainability of sobriety. Christer Karlsson, Co-Founder of K.R.I.S (Criminals Return Into Society), Sweden Paul Molloy, CEO and Co-Founder of Oxford House, USA Jesse Perera, Senior Trainer, Sri Lanka Mithuru Mithuro Movement, Sri Lanka Moderator: Monica Barzanti
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee and Tea
15:30 - 17:00	Special Sessions 1 - Drug Violence in Latin America - NGOs Say "No" to Surrender International media has presented a picture that Latin America is ready for legalisation of drugs. This is not true for the grass root organisations active in preventing drug misuse. Speakers from several Latin American organisations will present their view. Carmen Fernández Cáceres, Director-General of Centros de Integración Juvenil, A.C. (CIJ), Mexico Carlos Dias, Brazilian Humanitarians in Action, Brazil Piero Ponce, The Information and Education Center for the Prevention of Drug Abuse (CEDRO), Peru Moderator: Solomon Rataemane 2 - Best Practices in Primary and Secondary Prevention Much too often the message about prevention is that "nothing works". At this session speakers with positive experiences of what works will share their methods and experiences. Jón Sigfússon, Director of Youth in Europe, Director of the Icelandic Centre of Social Research and Analysis, Reykjavik University, Iceland Kjell Adolfsen, Advisor at the unit for social and preventive services, Kristiansand commune, Norway Michael Buscemi, President of Service Learning and Life Skills Network and Senior Advisor to the Lions Clubs International Foundation, USA Moderator: Janina Romanova 3 - New Synthetic Drugs Challenge Prevention and Law Making - Can We Keep up? A new Swedish Act (SFS 2011:111) on destruction of unlisted substances of abuse entered into force 1 April 2011. It authorizes public prosecutors to seize unlisted drugs under investigation to be listed. The prosecutor can order the destruction of the substance. The new act has been a great success in thwarting Internet sales of unlisted substances. The seminar will have presentations on current legal practice and also on the Swedish system of monitoring and listing new substances. Lars Hansson, Expert on narcotics, Swedish Customs Service, Sweden Sara Wall, Drug expert at The Swedish National Institute of Public Health, Sweden Victoria Persson, Public Prosecutor, Public Prosecution Office, Stockholm, Sweden Moderator: Jonas Hartelius

Tuesday May 22

08:30 - 09:00	Registration
09:00 - 10:30	Special Sessions 1 - Law Enforcement and Drug Treatment Working Side by Side in Latin America A special session showing that there is no conflict in upholding the law and offering help to those addicted by drugs and the need for law enforcement to work hand in hand with other segments of society. José Mariano Beltrame, Security Secretary, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Marcos Kac, General Attorney, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Moderator: Gabriel Romanus 2 - Cannabis - Is The Future More or Less Use? Aurélie Mayet, MD, Paris Sud University, France Christian Thurstone, MD, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, USA Michel Perron, Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, Canada Moderator: Kerstin Käll 3 - Drug Testing in North and South America and its Future Internationally Modern drug testing programs that include education, treatment and law enforcement have been proven to reduce substance abuse and promote public health and safety. Drug testing technologies are advancing rapidly and are needed to provide an early warning system for the "Perfect Storm of Drug Abuse" started in the United States and spreading internationally. David Martin, PhD, Chairman Drug and Alcohol Testing Industry Association, DATIA, USA Patricio Labatut, Co-Chairman of the DATIA International Committee, Chile Brian Drew, Co-Chairman of the DATIA International Committee, USA Moderator: Josephine Baxter
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee and Tea
11:00 - 12:15	Plenary Session Kiran Bedi, PhD, social activist, former Deputy Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau, India Giovanni Serpelloni, Head of Department for anti drug policies, Italy Bertha Madras, Professor of psychobiology, Harvard Medical School, USA Gregor Burkhart, MD, Senior Scientific Analyst, EMCDDA, EU Moderator: Josephine Baxter
12:15 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 15:00	Special Sessions 1 - Drug Effects in The Adolescent Brain: Preventing Youth Drug Use Is A Global Imperative Bertha Madras, Professor of psychobiology, Harvard Medical School, USA Moderator: Robert L. DuPont 2 - Preventing Tobacco and Alcohol Use to Prevent Illicit Drug Use Aurélie Mayet, MD, Paris Sud University, France Gregor Burkhart, MD, Senior Scientific Analyst, EMCDDA, EU Aurelijus Veryga, Professor Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania Moderator: Lisa Lundahl 3 - Measuring the Drug Problem - Is It Getting Better or Worse? CAN of Sweden has done drug habit surveys among youth longer than anyone in the world. Based on this experience the ESPAD-project was founded and now includes around 40 countries in Europe. Björn Hibell, Chair of the Steering Committee, the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Drugs, ESPAD, Sweden Håkan Leifman, Director, The Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs - CAN, Sweden Moderator: Nadzeya Ausiyevich
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee and Tea
15:30 - 17:00	Special Sessions 1 - Harm Reduction vs. Recovery - Conflicting Goals for Prevention and Treatment Must we choose between harm reduction and recovery or can they be combined in any way? The speakers will analyze the situation based on research and practical experience. Robert L. DuPont, MD, President, Institute of Behaviour and Health, USA Neil McKeganey, PhD, Founder of Centre for Drug Misuse Research at the University of Glasgow, Scotland Moderator: Kathy Gyngell 2 - Drugs Tests - New Possibilities with New Technologies Olof Beck, Professor, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden Lars-Olov Sjöström, PhD, Traffic Safety Manager, Abstaining Motorists' Association (MHF), Sweden Lennart Karlsson, Detective Sergeant at Stockholm County police, Sweden Moderator: Calvina Fay 3 - Emerging Trends of Novel Synthetic Drugs of Abuse and Prescription Drugs - How Dangerous are They? Peter Hultén, Licensed pharmacist at the Swedish Poisons Information Centre, Sweden Gunnar Hermansson, Journalist and former police officer, Sweden Moderator: Linda Nilsson

Wednesday, May 23

08:30 - 09:00	Registration
09:00 - 10:30	Special Sessions 1 - Shared Responsibility, Save the Rainforest! Erika Karel Boyanovich Gargurevich, Psychologist, CEDRO, Peru Alejandro Vassilaqui, Executive Director of CEDRO, Peru Moderator: Mina Seinfeld de Carakushansky 2 - Drugs trends in Asia and the response - Sri Lanka, Thailand and The SMART Program Pubudu Sumanasekara, Adic SL, Sri Lanka Naret Songkrawsook, CLANPO, Thailand Beate Hammond, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UN Moderator: Esbjörn Hörnberg 3 - Community Mobilization to Reduce Drug Use Arthur T. Dean, Chairman and CEO of Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), USA Eduardo Hernández-Alarcón, Deputy Director for Dissemination and Coalition Relations for the National Community Anti-Drug Coalition Institute, USA Susan R. Thau, Public Policy Consultant representing Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), USA Moderator: Sven-Olov Carlsson 4 - Meaningless or meaningFULL - why a better leisure life and youth culture matter for drug prevention A presentation of the project Active – the organization, its concept and the people who work with it. The speakers will talk about young Europeans and the harms of drugs, alcohol as well as illicit drugs. They will speak about youth culture and drugs and what concrete actions Active takes. Maik Dünnbier, Political Officer, Active, Germany Kristina Sperkova, Secretary General, Active, Slovakia Linda Engström, Chair, Youth Sobriety Alliance, Sweden Moderator: Gabriel Romanus
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee and Tea
11:00 - 12:30	Grand Finale Salómon Chertorivski Woldenberg, Secretary of Health, Mexico Julio Everardo Sotelo, MD, President of Centros de Integración Juvenil, Mexico Yvonne Thunell, Chairman, the Mentor Foundation, Sweden Erika Karel Boyanovich Gargurevich, Psychologist, CEDRO, Peru Robert L. DuPont, MD, President, Institute of Behaviour and Health, USA Moderator: Linda Nilsson

* To be confirmed

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