The Expanding Naloxone Availability in the ACT (ENAACT) Committee is pleased to announce the Launch of Australia’s first overdose management programme that provides naloxone on prescription to potential overdose victims.
A custom workshop of select CAST Canada material with panels of folks with lived experience - direct, family and professional - we will see the realities of the opiate experience "From Behind the Eyes" of the folks who have been there and some who are there. For front line helping professionals.
Ruby Hall, Safi Landmark Hotel, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
In order to increase understanding, support and advocacy for OST among all relevant stakeholders, the Afghan Ministry of Public Health will organise a one day awareness workshop on Opioid Substitution Therapy on September 14th 2011 in Kabul.
In a significant omission, production and supply-side issues have not been a traditional focus of the International Harm Reduction Conference. This session at this year's conference in Liverpool is intended to provide participants with an overview of the diversity and seriousness of the issues facing people in four very different producer nations from the perspectives of those with first hand experience. This session will take place on Thursday 29th April between 9am and 10am. The session is organised by TNI, IHRA and IPS.
Discussions will focus on the challenges to policies and programmes within production, transit and consumer markets, including those in places as distant as Afghanistan and those closer to home.
The conference will present the latest evidence on opioid treatment and to develop strategies to assist healthcare partnerships and collaboration with community partners.
The main goal of the conference is to advocate for and promote harm reduction in the countries of the MENA region and to foster networking between civil society organisations and other stakeholders working in the field.
The World Drug Report will be launched during a Special Event of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) on the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, chaired by Ambassador Mirghani Abbaker Altayeb Bakhet, Chair of the 62nd session of the CND.
The Brookings Institution is hosting a webinar to discuss the findings of its series “The opioid crisis in America: Domestic and international dimensions”.
Webinar outlining how opioid stigma reduction programs can measure the behaviours of first responders and health-care providers towards people living with opioid use.
