| 8.30 – 9.00am |
REGISTRATION |
| 9.00 – 9.10am |
Welcome to Country |
| 9.10 – 9.20am |
Welcome
Professor Simon Lenton
Director, NDRI |
| Session One |
Session Chair: Mr Chris Killick-Moran, Australian Government Department of Health |
| 9.20 – 9.45am |
Moderate drinking: For better or worse?
Professor Tanya Chikritzhs
Program Leader, Alcohol Policy and Strategies Research Program, NDRI |
| 9.45 – 10.10am |
Young women 'behaving badly': Fighting, drinking and involvement with the criminal justice system
Dr Mandy Wilson
Program Leader, Justice Health Research Program, NDRI |
| 10.10 – 10.35am |
Alcohol and young people: Taking into account social relations and cultural practices
Professor David Moore
Program Leader, Ethnographic Research Program, NDRI |
| 10.35 – 10.45am |
Launch of an online interactive alcohol-related harm data resource
Ms Eveline Lensvelt
Research Associate, Alcohol Policy and Strategies Research Program, NDRI |
| 10.45 – 11.10am |
MORNING TEA |
| Session Two |
Session Chair: Dr Nadine Ezard, National Centre for Clinical Research on Emerging Drugs |
| 11.10 – 11.35am |
Opioids in the Australian ‘street’ drug markets: Trends, issues and opportunities
Professor Simon Lenton
Program Leader, Harm Reduction Policies and Strategies Research Program, NDRI |
| 11.35 – 12.00pm |
Intervention research in schools: Mechanisms for policy and practice impact
Dr Nyanda McBride
Program Leader, Prevention and Early Intervention Research Program, NDRI |
| Session Three |
Poster Presentations
Session Chair: Professor Suzanne Fraser, NDRI |
| 12.00 – 12.10pm |
A mixed-methods study of drug use at outdoor music festivals in Western Australia and Victoria
Ms Jodie Grigg, NDRI Research Associate and PhD Scholar
Blood-borne virus prevention and blood awareness among men who inject performance and image-enhancing drugs
Dr Renae Fomiatti, NDRI Research Officer
Producing alcohol or other drug ‘dependence’ in an Australian drug court: A Victorian case study
Ms Eliana Sarmiento Guerra, NDRI PhD Scholar
Incarcerated young men who inject drugs: Health care provision in adult prisons
Ms Shelley Walker, NDRI PhD Scholar |
| 12.10 – 1.00pm |
LUNCH |
| Session Four |
Session Chair: Mr Sione Crawford, Harm Reduction Australia |
| 1.00 – 1.25pm |
The role of glutamate in addiction and the N-ICE trial for "ice" use
Associate Professor Rebecca McKetin
Program Leader, Methamphetamine Use Research Program, NDRI |
| 1.25 – 1.50pm |
Conflict and communication: Managing the multiple affordances of take-home naloxone administration events in Australia
Dr Adrian Farrugia
Research Associate, Social Studies of Addiction Concepts Research Program, NDRI |
| 1.50 – 2.15pm |
Beyond disease: Responding to accounts of addiction-related stigma and discrimination
Professor Suzanne Fraser
Research Fellow, Social Studies of Addiction Concepts Research Program, NDRI |
| 2.15 – 2.45pm |
AFTERNOON TEA |
| Session Five |
Session Chair: Professor Simon Lenton, NDRI |
| 2.45 – 3.10pm |
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Commercial versus non-commercial models of cannabis regulation
Professor Tom Decorte
Director, Institute for Social Drug Research, Ghent University, Belgium |
| 3.10 – 4.45pm |
PANEL DISCUSSION - CANNABIS REGULATION: PROFIT VERSUS PUBLIC HEALTH
Brief presentations by panel members:
The state of the cannabis law debate in Australia
Professor Nicole Lee, 360Edge and NDRI Adjunct
Issues with Colorado’s commercial cannabis market
Mr Todd Subritzky, NDRI
The 2020 referendum on cannabis law reform in New Zealand: Opportunity for health focused reform or commercial profit?
Associate Professor Chris Wilkins, SHORE & Whariki Research Centre, Massey University, New Zealand
How should we think about the implications of cannabis law reform in Australia?
Dr Kate Seear, Monash University and NDRI Adjunct
Presentations will be followed by discussion of the issues by panel members, keynote speaker Professor Tom Decorte and audience, chaired by Professor Simon Lenton.
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| 4.45 – 4.50pm |
Closing remarks
Professor Simon Lenton |