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Media partners

Society Guardian

Kings Place
90 York Way
London
N1 9GU

Tel: 020 3353 2000

www.societyguardian.co.uk

The Guardian has a long-term standing commitment to all public services and the charity sector. This has been delivered through its editorial, offering comprehensive recruitment sections and its support of key events. The Guardian is delighted to support Drugs and Alcohol Today London.

SocietyGuardian is published every Wednesday with the Guardian, and has news and editorial features on a range of public services, including health, housing, employment and social care. SocietyGuardian also offers a breadth of job opportunities, carrying public services and social care appointments.

Furthermore, the Guardian jobs website, with its unique functionality and its sector specific sections, attracts a large user profile of professionals drawn from a range of public services. The Guardian now also offers a unique social care Jobmatch service, which hand picks and matches the right candidates with the right jobs. The Guardian, with its unique editorial and effective recruitment offering, has become an invaluable resource for all public services and charity sector professionals. For further details on the Guardian's recruitment solutions, contact your Guardian representative on 020 3353 2000 or at www.guardian.co.uk/jobs

Drugs and Alcohol Today Journal

Drugs and Alcohol Today, published quarterly, brings readers the best in new thinking on drugs and alcohol practice and reports on the latest policy, laws, and developments in a jargon free and meaningful way.
This journal is peer-reviewed and it features current articles and research, maintaining a practice orientation in an accessible format for professionals working in the drugs and alcohol field.
Common themes that feature in the journal include:

• a regular drug policy forum between relevant prohibition and legalising perspectives
• service user involvement and relations between drug services
• patterns of drug use
• the criminal justice system.

Partners

Turning Point

Standon House
21 Mansell Street
London
E1 8AA

Tel: 020 7481 7600

Email: info@turning-point.co.uk

Website: www.turning-point.co.uk

We turn lives around every day by putting the individual at the heart of what we do, and helping people build a better life.

Turning Point is the UK's leading social care organisation, providing services for people with complex needs, including those affected by drug and alcohol misuse, mental health problems and those with a learning disability.

Turning Point is the UK's largest provider of substance misuse services. We have projects all across the country offering interventions at every level from advice and information to specialist detoxification and support for service users entering education and employment.

We are also major providers of services with the Drug Intervention Programme.

Partners

The Home Office

Drug Strategy Directorate
Peel Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF

Tel: 0870 000 1585

Email: public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Website: www.homeoffice.gov.uk

The Crime and Drug Strategy Directorate in the Home Office exists to co-ordinate efforts across government to reduce crime and the harms caused by drug misuse. A dedicated unit – the Drug Strategy Unit – focuses on reducing drug-related harm, while specific elements of the Strategy are the responsibility of other units within the Directorate. For example, the Crime and Drugs Legislation and Enforcement Unit deals with all matters relating to the legality and classification of drugs and also to reducing international supply.

Responsibility for delivery of the Strategy is shared across several government departments and agencies and CDSD co-ordinate activity to ensure that action taken across government contributes to reducing the harms associated with illegal drugs, including reporting to Ministers and communicating with stakeholders and the public.

Event Sponsors

Blenheim CDP

Head Office
66 Bolton Crescent
London
SE5 0SE

Tel: 020 7582 2200

Fax: 020 7582 2211

Email: info@blenheimcdp.org.uk

Website: www.blenheimcdp.org.uk

Blenheim CDP is The London Drugs Agency providing 17 distinct drugs treatment services across Greater London. These include:

• specialist stimulant services
• structured day programmes
• direct access and tier 2 services
• GP shared care
• needle exchanges
• mobile exchanges and outreach
• assertive outreach
• DIP and criminal justice services
• young peoples treatment services
• DRR programmes
• volunteer and ETE services
• training and consultancy

Of the 17 services 6 are stand alone stimulant specific projects meaning that Blenheim CDP is the leading provider of primary stimulant services in the country.

Blenheim CDP’s primary task is to reduce the harm caused by drug misuse to individuals and the public. The organisation delivers a range of evidence based initiatives that flexibly meet the changing and diverse needs of our service users and the wider community.

Blenheim CDP regards its relationship with local communities and service users as key. We develop proactive partnerships that are based on respect and understanding. This commitment drives the development and growth of its dynamic approach to service delivery supporting its development of new services, and the continuous improvement of existing ones.

Alongside the use of evidenced based methods such as cognitive behavioural therapies, motivational interviewing and solution focused interventions, Blenheim CDP also incorporate ITEP which provides workers with a range of mapping tools that guide discussions with clients around their thinking and behavioural patterns. Blenheim CDP was the only agency in London to trial the new node link mapping tools within the NTA pilot. The International Treatment Effectiveness Programme (ITEP) has been adopted across all our services, and we are now providing training and consultancy to other providers across the country.

Zone Sponsors

ADFAM

25 Corsham Street
London
N1 6DR

Tel: 020 7553 7640

Email: admin@adfam.org.uk

Website: www.adfam.org.uk

Adfam is the leading national organisation working with and for families affected by drugs and alcohol. We focus on 3 areas in our service delivery:

• Informing
  We provide a wide range of information to families to help them manage to their situation. We also work with professionals and government to influence policy in this area.
• Challenging
  Using information gathered directly from families, and from research findings, we challenge and influence policy makers, planners and the media to understand and represent more accurately the issues affecting families of drug and alcohol users.
• Supporting
  We run support services for families in contact with the criminal justice system in London prisons. We also provide capacity building services to family agencies, community / self help groups and statutory agencies to improve their ability to support families.

Event Supporter

The European Association for the Treatment of Addiction (UK)

25 Corsham Street
London
N1 6DR

Tel: 020 7553 9580

Email: secretariat@eata.org.uk

Website: www.eata.org.uk

The European Association for the Treatment of Addiction (EATA) is a charity which aims to ensure people affected by substance dependencies get the treatment they need.

EATA – a membership organisation – is the main representative body for voluntary and independent treatment services. We work with government bodies and policy makers, representing the views of the sector to improve access and quality in the rehabilitative treatment of substance dependency.

To achieve our aims, we target four specific areas through our programme of activities and services:

• Improving awareness to ensure that the treatment needs of people dependent on drugs and alcohol are met
• Encouraging and aiding the development of policies and strategies to improve treatment access and quality
• Influencing, advising on and promoting best practice in the purchase and provision of treatment services
• Improving and aiding the needs of support and aftercare services.

We also run a wide range of services for our members including regional meetings and events, regular newsletters and updates on the latest developments and encourage informed debates among members working on the ground.

Supporter

Federation of Drug and Alcohol Professionals

Unit 84, 95 Wilton Rd
London
SW1V 1BZ

Tel: 0870 763 6139

Email: office@fdap.org.uk

Website: www.fdap.org.uk

The Federation of Drug & Alcohol Professionals (FDAP) is the professional body for the substance use field and works to help improve standards of practice across the sector by:

• Setting professional standards
  through our Code of Practice and Complaints & Disciplinary procedures.
• Developing the workforce
  through our events and DANOS-based training, qualifications and guidance.
• Influencing, advising on and promoting best practice in the purchase and provision of treatment services
• Informing practice and professional development
  through the www.DrinkandDrugs.net website.

Supporter

DrugScope

Prince Consort House
Suite 204 (2nd Floor)
109 - 111 Farringdon Road
London EC1R 3BW

Tel: 020 7520 7550

Email: info@drugscope.org.uk

Website: www.drugscope.org.uk

DrugScope is the UK's leading independent centre of information and expertise on drugs and the national membership organisation for the drug sector and others. Their aim is to inform policy development and reduce drug-related harms – to individuals, families and communities.

They provide quality drug information, promote effective responses to drug use, undertake research, advise on policy-making and good practice, encourage informed debate (particularly in the media) and speak for their members working in drug treatment, education and prevention and other areas.

DrugScope strives to ensure that responses to drug use – across treatment, prevention and education services and the criminal justice system – are high quality and based on evidence of what works. Working with their members they develop and promote quality standards, policy frameworks and good practice for specialist and general agencies involved in drugs issues.

They draw on the knowledge and expertise of their membership to inform policy makers on drug-related issues, maintaining close links with government officials, parliamentarians from all parties and the media to promote an informed debate and approach to tackling the harms that drugs cause.