This conference will examine challenges and legal barriers facing those who work with dependent drug users. It will present some of the new options as well as regulations that they will need to consider. Release's unique position as an expert in drugs and drugs law makes this conference a one-off event in the drug worker's calendar.
Release is pleased to confirm that Jim Knight MP, Minister of State of Employment and Welfare Reform at the Department for Work and Pensions is the afternoon keynote speakers and will be providing a question and answer session.
Key themes
- Welfare benefit system
- Legal issues surrounding paraphernalia and naloxone
- Mandatory and voluntary treatment
- Rehabilitation orders and sex workers
- Drug consumption rooms
Speakers at the event
- Jim Knight MP, Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform at the Department for Work and Pensions
- Mike Murray NHS Derby City
- Chair Sebastian Saville Executive Director, Release
- William Pryor Author and Director of Unhooked Thinking
- Dr Emily Finch Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Charlie Lloyd Programme Manager for Drugs, Alcohol and Social Evils, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Professor John Strang Director of the National Addiction Centre Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
- Mat Southwell International Drug User Activist
- Jamie Bridge Project Development Officer, IHRA; Co-Deputy Chair NNEF
- Cari Mitchell Spokeswoman, English Collective of Prostitutes
- Niamh Eastwood Deputy Director and Head of Legal Services, Release
Who should attend
- Drug workers
- Treatment providers
- Policy activists
- Commissioners
- Drug treatment researchers
- Those working with sex-workers and service users
Workshops
none
Pricing
£ 145.00 + VAT for Early bird rate - Unwaged/students/small vol orgs
£ 195.00 + VAT for all conference delegates
