Substance Abuse meetings & conferences

Pan Arab Psychiatric Conference (PAPC2012)

Novembe 29-December 1, 2012 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The theme selected for the Mental Health Changes in the Arab World (Violence, Trauma and Recovery) will address the involvement of the mental health professionals in providing services for people affected by the recent developments in the region. It is an opportunity to discuss and share development, trends, scientific research and treatments advancements in the impact of the violence on the mental health specifically and psychotrauma and Psychiatric disorders in general not forgetting Recovery.

Together with a carefully selected educational program and a group of highly renowned regional and international keynote speakers, we promise you a significant scientific enrichment for people involved hoping to benefit the region on the ground in the post period of the conference and initiate mental health programs the region needs.

Meeting Minds Experts
PAPC2012 Professional Conference Organisers

pco@papc2012.com

 2012 Prevention of Youth Substance Abuse in Rural Communities: Reaching Out to Missing Partners

August 1-3, 2012 University of South Carolina Lancaster in Lancaster, South Carolina

2012 Prevention of Youth Substance Abuse in Rural Communities: Reaching Out to Missing Partners is a training conference that emphasizes the unique challenges of conducting youth prevention in rural communities. The conference was founded by one of the most successful prevention coalitions in the country, in hopes of raising awareness of the plight that many rural communities face with regards to the growth of youth substance abuse.

Hosted by: USC Lancaster

This year’s conference is hosted by the University of South Carolina Lancaster in Lancaster, South Carolina. Historic Lancaster is located 30 miles from Charlotte, North Carolina.

Indian Health Service National Behavioral Health Conference

June 25 - 28, 2012 Bloomington, Minnesota

Description: The Indian Health Service [IHS] National Behavioral Health Conference is the premiere behavioral health training and information sharing event for American Indian and Alaska Native people. Throughout its history, the conference has attracted presenters and participants from across the U.S. and has evolved into an event for cutting-edge research, promising practices, professional learning, and collaboration and networking for those engaged in behavioral health professions in Indian Country. The conference provides an opportunity for Tribes, Urban Indian providers, and States to develop discussions and identify opportunities for collaboration and coordination in addressing a range of behavioral health issues. This year’s conference includes the Methamphetamine and Suicide Prevention Initiative [MSPI] and the Domestic Prevention Initiative [DVPI] annual meetings.

Contact Info: Deborah Black (301) 443-8028

American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association 2013 Conference

May 29 – June 1, 2013 Bloomington, Minnesota

Goal of the Conference

The American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association (ADARA) is pleased to announce the 2013 ADARA Conference, a national conference to be hosted in Minnesota. Our conference theme is “Blazing New Trails” which refers to “doing something different,” “doing early or pioneering work that others will follow up on,” and “doing something that no one has done before, especially something important for other people.”

This conference seeks to provide training and networking opportunities for mental health professionals, vocational rehabilitation counselors, independent living service providers, educators, interpreters, transition specialists, community-based rehabilitation providers, and any support staff in the helping professions.

Possible Areas and Topics

• Interfacing education and mental health
• Working with trilingual families
• Testing demonstrations
• Olmstead, recovery, peer support
• Supporting community living options
• Drug/alcohol abuse treatment strategies
• Trauma informed care
• Working with low functioning/language dysfluent consumers
• Developing cultural competency
• Therapeutic techniques/theories & effective counseling techniques & strategies (e.g., EMDR, DBT)
• Mental health/chemical dependency interpreting

• Deaf/Hard of Hearing cross-cultural conflicts
• Professional management
• Public policy
• Using technology in therapeutic settings
• Navigating the new health care environment
• Client-centered approaches/ Early interventions
• Career assessments
• Residential programming
• Levels of care: residential, outpatient, intensive, group homes
• Job coaching/Job placement
• Transition
• Autism
• Vocational evaluations
• Work adjustment

Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival

November 9-17, 2012 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rendezvous with Madness (RWM) is the world’s first and longest running film festival showcasing films that address issues of mental health and/or addiction. The festival provides a unique opportunity for filmmakers to screen their work and has grown into a filmmaker favourite over the past eighteen years.

The objectives of the Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival are:

− To explore the facts and mythologies of mental illness and/or addiction, as presented by Canadian and international filmmakers.
− To facilitate discussions amongst filmmakers and audiences with respect to these cinematic representations.
− To provide filmmakers an opportunity to screen their films that may otherwise not be seen.
− To increase awareness, and advocacy for mental health and addiction issues and concerns.

RWM brings independent Canadian and International film and video to the public. RWM features strong programs that address the facts and mythologies of mental illness and addiction.

Each of the various programs focuses on different themes and includes panel discussions involving the filmmakers, artists and people with professional and personal experience with mental illness and addiction.

Tonics, Elixirs and Poisons: Psychoactive Substances in European History and Culture

Conference 8-9 September 2012 Wellington, New Zealand

Psychoactive substances, whether narcotics, stimulants or hallucinogens, affect their users as individuals, yet their social context informs their cultural significance. At different times and in different places, different substances have become a locus of fascination or anxiety, praise or opprobrium, patriotism or prohibition. We seek papers examining psychoactive substances in a specific cultural context. How, when, and why did substances such as alcohol, caffeine, cannabis, cocaine, opium, tea, and tobacco acquire the cultural meanings that they did? How have consumers of psychoactive substances crossed the border between medical and recreational use, and how has society responded to any perceived transgressions? How have these substances been represented in literary, journalistic, legal, or scientific texts?

The conference will take place at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The conference will have no registration fee, and will be open to the public. For further information, contact Alexander Maxwell or Richard Millington.

Alexander Maxwell alexander.maxwell(at)vuw.ac.nz
Richard Millington richard.millington(at)vuw.ac.nz

Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600
Wellington 6140
New Zealand

Visit the website at http://www.victoria.ac.nz/antipodean/upcoming-events.aspx

Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA) 2012 National Conference

36th National Conference

November 1-3, 2012 Bethesda, Maryland

We invite you to celebrate our 36th anniversary at the Double Tree Hotel in Bethesda, MD on November 1-3, 2012. The conference is notable for its in-depth focus on substance abuse education and the high quality of its workshops and presentations. The objectives of the AMERSA National Conference are to bring together researchers and health professional educators to learn about scientific advances and exemplary teaching approaches. AMERSA’s membership consists of a multidisciplinary audience, comprised of physicians, nurses, social workers, dentists, psychologists, public health practitioners, substance abuse specialists, physician assistants, and allied health professionals.

7th Global Forum on Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting and Diversion

November 27-29, 2012 Washington, DC

Since 2002 Reconnaissance International’s Global Forum on Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting has brought together the most eclectic mix of stakeholders and leaders who care about safe access to pharmaceuticals. All the previous Global Forums have covered new ground in the discussion of how to best combat counterfeit pharmaceuticals and medical devices. This has stimulated new ideas, encouraged cooperation and catalysed numerous new projects on global, national and company levels.

In the past few years illicit pharmaceutical diversion - a topic covered by the Global Forum - has been growing at an alarming rate. This includes the diversion of shipments from low-price markets to high-price markets and the misuse of prescription medicines. Prescription drug abuse, especially of opiates, is now a major issue, particularly in the USA. The title of the Global Forum has therefore changed with the addition of “Diversion” to recognise the importance of this issue and the need to combat it.

Reconnaissance International
General Enquiries

4 Windmill Business Village
Brooklands Close
Sunbury-on-Thames
Surrey
TW16 7DY
United Kingdom

info@reconnaissance-intl.com
Phone: +44 (0)1932 785 680
Fax: +44 (0)1932 780 790
http://www.reconnaissance-intl.com

ISBRA 2012--16th Congress of the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism

September 9-12, 2012 Sapporo, Japan

Traditionally, ISBRA conferences focus on the biology of alcohol consumption and alcoholism and their biomedical consequences. However, throughout its 30 years of existence, the ISBRA leadership has always been committed to an interdisciplinary approach to fully understand the basis and the consequences of the behavior we are interested in. Therefore the ISBRA congress offers a wide range of outstanding data in scientific fields from the biomedical basis of alcoholism in animal and human experimental models to alcohol-related treatment issues, all the way to alcohol-related epidemiology and health economics.

Administration Secretariat

CONVENTION LINKAGE, INC.
Sapporo Daido Seimei Bldg., 3-1 Kita3-jo-nishi, chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-0003, Japan
Phone: +81-11-272-2151 / fax: +81-11-272-2152
E-mail: ISBRA2012[at]c-linkage.co.jp

3rd International Congress on Dual Disorders

Addictions and Other Mental Disorders

October 23-26, 2013

The 3rd International Congress on Dual Disorders will be the best opportunity for psychiatrists specialized in Dual Pathology to meet, share and find the latest advances in the field.