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A Climate for Change
Program Outline
10 July 2008
7:00 – 8:30 Registration and Arrival Coffee
8:30 – 8:50
8:50 – 9:00
Indigenous Welcome
Keynote Session Host – Theresa Moyers
9:00 – 9:45 Keynote – William Miller
On the Nature of Addiction: Beyond Brain Disease
9:45 – 10:30 Keynote – Barbara McCrady
It Takes a Village to Resolve an Addiction...And Certain Kinds of Villagers
10:30 – 11:00
Morning Tea
11:00 – 11:45
Keynote – Carlo DiClemente
Searching for Mechanisms of Change in All the Wrong Places
11:45 – 12:00 Morning Summary – Theresa Moyers
12:00 – 1:00
Lunch
Interactive Presentations
1:00 – 2:00
Amanda Baker
The Long and the Short of treatments for alcohol or cannabis isuse among people with co-existing mental health problems
Constance Weisner
Adolescents: The New Chronic Population?
2:00 – 3:00 Ian MacEwan
Lesbian and Gay Clients: So 1980’s. Move On! Alex Blaszczynski
Pathological Gambling: Versace or The Emperor's Clothes?
3:00 – 3:30
Afternoon Tea
3:30 – 4:15
Plenary
Dennis Gray & Ted Wilkes
Getting Serious About the Structural Determinants of Indigenous Substance Misuse
4:15 - 5:00
Panel Discussion
Adams, Marlatt, McLellan, Weisner, Shaffer
Facilitator: Allan Zuckoff
11 July 2008
8:15 – 8:50
8:50 – 9:00 Arrival Coffee
Keynote Session: Host – Doug Sellman
9:00 – 9:45 Doug Sellman
The Price We Pay For Knowing The Meaning Of Life
9:45 – 10:30 Keynote – Alan Marlatt
Harm Reduction: Moderation and Mindfulness in the Treatment of Coexisting Disorders
10:30 – 11:00
Morning Tea
11:00 – 11:45
Keynote – Steve Allsop
Influencing Addiction Policy: The Risks of Swimming with the Crocodiles
11:45 – 12:00 Morning Summary – Simon Adamson
12:00 – 1:00
Lunch
Interactive Presentations
1:00 – 2:00
Anne Roche
Achieving Professional Practice Change: Roads to Nirvana
Peter Adams
Strategies to Improve the Ethics of Engagement with the Tobacco, Alcohol and Gambling Industries
2:00 - 3:00 Harold Kalant
What Pharmacology Can't Tell Us About Addictions: Pessimistic Musings of Pharmacologist Theresa Moyers
Hearing Between The Lines : The Language of Substance Abuse.
3:00 – 3:30
Afternoon Tea
3:30 – 4:30
Plenary
Panel Discussion
Miller, DiClemente, McCrady, Allsop, Wilkes
Facilitator: Allan Zuckoff
4:45 – 4:50 Closing – Joel Porter