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Talking Point seminar series
| July
to November 2008 |
Friday
July 25th |
Drug
court: an overview of a diversionary program based on
the therapeutic jurisprudence model and aimed at drug
& alcohol dependent offenders
Julie Kowalski & Stuart McGown,
Community Correctional Services, Case Management Unit,
The
Drug Court, Department of Justice |
Friday
August 29th |
Addiction
is a brain disease: and it matters!
Neurobiology and the treatment of addiction in the 21st
century
Professor Jon Currie,
Professor/Director Addiction Medicine, St Vincent's
Hospital, Melbourne |
Friday
September 26th |
In a world
of their own: why segregate treatment for methamphetamine
users?
Madonna Devaney, Michael Inglis
& Tracey Brooke,
Access Point Methamphetamine Clinic, Turning Point Alcohol
& Drug Centre
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Friday
October 24th |
Cognitive
styles underlying risky decision making in substance
abusers
Professor Julie Stout,
Director Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory,
School of Psychology, Monash University
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Friday
November 21st |
Early
Alcohol and other drug treatment in Victoria 1870–1930
Caroline Clarke,
Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre
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Previous
programs
| February
to June 2008 |
Friday
February 8th |
Fighting
the drugs war: The role of prohibitionist groups in
Australian
illicit drugs policy
Dr Phillip Mendes
Senior Lecturer, Medicine, Nursing and Health Services,
Monash University |
Friday
March 14th |
Dual
diagnosis in a drug rehab
Yvonne Devey
Manager, Birribi, Youth Substance Abuse Service
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Friday
April 11th |
Substance
use and the adolescent brain: a toxic combination?
Dr Dan Lubman
Senior Lecturer, Substance Use Research & Recovery
Focused (SURRF) Program, ORYGEN Research Centre, Department
of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne
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Friday
May 9th |
What
everyone needs to know about fetal alcohol syndrome
in Australia
Sue Miers
Spokesperson, National Organisation for Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome and Related Disorders
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Friday
June 13th |
A
social networks approach to hepatitis C virus epidemiology
in Melbourne
Dr Campbell Aitken
Senior Research Fellow
Peter Higgs Research
Officer
Dr Margaret Hellard
Director
Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research,
The Burnet Institute
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| June
to November 2007 |
Friday
June 15th |
Community
wellbeing: Challenges, trends and opportunities
John Wiseman
Director, VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental
Health & Social Wellbeing |
Friday
July 13th |
Preventing
and treating blood borne viruses and STIs for Koori
people in prison
Joanne Harrison & Michael
Murray
VACCHO
Mark Saunders
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society,
Latrobe University;
John Whyte & Angela Clarke
Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, Melbourne University
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Friday
August 10th |
The
Neighbourhood Justice Centre six months on
David Fanning
Magistrate, Neighbourhood Justice Centre
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Friday
September 14th |
Policing
drugs: The Chinese approach
Lian Jin
Associate Professor, Yunnan Police Officer Academy,
China / Visiting scholar, School of Political Science,
Criminology and Sociology, University of Melbourne
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Friday
October 12th |
Creating
needle exchange in the US : The day before harm reduction
Dave Purchase
Director, Point Defiance AIDS Projects / Chair, North
American Syringe Exchange Network |
| Friday
November 16th |
Alcohol
and other drug related brain impairment.
Challenges and opportunities: The Australian context
Sonia Berton, Chief Executive Officer, arbias |
| February
to May 2007 |
Friday February
2nd |
Providing
an earlier warning of drug use trends
Jane Mounteney
Consultant, Bergen Clinics Foundation and Research Fellow,
Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care,
University of Bergen, Norway |
Friday
March 9th |
Dual
diagnosis clients: are they falling through the gaps?
Petra Staiger
Senior Lecturer, Deakin University School of Psychology |
Friday
April 13th |
New
directions in dual diagnosis – everything you
need to know but were afraid to ask
Greg Logan
Statewide Coordinator Dual Diagnosis Education &Training
Unit & Chris Hynan, Manager, Northern Nexus Dual
Diagnosis Service |
Friday
May 11th |
Pharmacotherapy
in Victoria – Future Directions
Chris Boag
Manager, Pharmacotherapy Development, Drugs Policy and
Services, Department of Human Services
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| July
to November 2006 |
Friday July
14th |
The
Child Protection Act, The Child Safety Commissioner
and the Alcohol and Drugs Sector
Bernie Geary
Child Safety Commissoner for Victoria |
| Friday August 18th |
WIP Symposium -
Translating Research into Practice: Making Services,
Research and Development Matter
"Special All Day
Event"
Turning Point's annual Work in Progress
symposium. Registration fees apply. For more information
contact tracey.brooke@turningpoint.org.au
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| Friday September 8th |
Mental Health Screening
and Intervention in Alcohol and Other Drugs: The Psycheck
Project
Dr Nicole Lee
Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre |
| Friday October 6th |
Tobacco Harm Reduction
Ernie Drucker
Professor of Epidemiology and Social Medicine and Professor
of Psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein
College of Medicine in New York City
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| Friday October 13th
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Alcohol
Related Harm Across Victorian Local Government Areas:
A Suburb by Suburb, Town by Town Analysis
Dr Anne-Marie Laslett
Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre |
Friday November 10th |
Families in the Spotlight
Alan Murnane
Family Drug Help
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Friday
July 14 |
The Child Protection
Act, the Child Safety Commissioner and the alcohol and
other drugs sector
Bernie Geary
Child Safety Commissioner |
| February
to July 2006 |
Friday
February 10 |
Ecstasy
and related drugs - what the paramedics see
Alan Eade
Metropolitan Ambulance Service (Melbourne)
Alan is an ambulance paramedic with the Metropolitan
Ambulance Service in Melbourne. His area of interest
is in ecstasy and related drug use - the so called party
drugs. The presentation will describe broadly the presentations
from ecstasy and related drugs to the Metropolitan Ambulance
Service, and some of the issues facing paramedics attending
to these events. |
Friday
March 10 |
Eating disorders
- they're not just about food
Tina Goodman
Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre
Tina has worked in the area of acute mental
health for over 25 years, including coordinating eating
disorder programs at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and
the Albert Road Clinic. The presentation will include
the aetiology, diagnosis and underlying psychological
mechanisms of anorexia and bulimia nervosa. |
Friday
April 7 |
Projecti - homeless
young people in Melbourne and Los Angeles
Professor Doreen Rosenthal, Director,
and
Shelley Mallett, Research Director
Projecti, the Key Centre for Women's Health, University
of Melbourne
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Friday
May 12 |
Comorbidity of
substance use and depression: the diagnosis, management
and outcome of depression in general practice (diamond)
longitudinal study
Dr Gail Gilchrist
Senior Research Fellow, Department of General Practice,
University of Melbourne
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Friday
May 26th |
Justice,
juice and juveniles: the use and abuse of alcohol and
other drugs by the young offender
Dr Andy Lovett,
Paediatrician and NH&MRC PhD Scholar, Centre for
Adolescent Health & Royal Children’s Hospital
Andy will review the pathways into the Juvenile Justice
system and present data from recent Australian studies.
In particular, he will examine the associations between
intensity of drug and alcohol use, dependence and crime.
Andy is a paediatrician and a trainee in addiction
medicine, based at the Centre for Adolescent Health.
He is completing a PhD examining health and risk behaviour
in a population of young offenders. |
Friday
June 9 |
Modelling the consequences of
adolescent amphetamine use
Dr Andrew Lawrence
Senior Research Fellow, Howard Florey Institute
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Friday
July 14 |
The Child Protection
Act, the Child Safety Commissioner and the alcohol and
other drugs sector
Bernie Geary
Child Safety Commissioner |
| July
to November 2005 |
Friday
July 8 |
Going
straight ... or gaily forward? Alcohol & drug counselling
with gay and lesbian clients
David Chong
Senior Consultant, Southern Dual Diagnosis Service and
Clinical Supervisor, Victorian AIDS Council
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Wednesday
August 10 |
Cannabis Use and
Mental Health in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Prof David M. Fergusson
Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch School
of Medicine & Health Sciences
Note: This Talking Point is being
held at 54 Gertrude Street
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Friday
August 12 |
Thinking about
drug use as everyday practice: research into the meaning
of drug use in youth cultures
Dr Cameron Duff
Director of Research, Centre for Youth Drug Studies,
Australian Drug Foundation
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Friday
September 9 |
Logistical and
ethical dilemmas in researching drug and alcohol use
among refugees and asylum seekers in Australia
Prof Sandy Gifford
Director, Refugee Health Research Centre, La Trobe University'
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Friday
October 21 |
Age
of Drinking Onset Research: U.S. and Europe
Prof Lee Strunin
Deputy Director, Partners
in Health and Housing Prevention Research Center, Boston
University
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Friday
November 11 |
From
Grief to Action: Families influencing drug policy
Nichola Hall
Chair, From Grief to Action, Vancouver,
Canada
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| February to June 2005 |
| February 11th |
An
Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure: the Case
for a 'Newer' Public Health
Dr Rob Moodie
CEO, VicHealth and Chair, Premier's Drug Prevention Council
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| March 11th |
Pre-Treatment
Works! Family Structured Intervention
Deborah Dupré
Executive Director, Duprevent International
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| April 8th |
Drug
treatment, with or without resources
Jimmy Dorabjee
Deputy Director, Centre for Harm Reduction, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne
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| May 13th |
Patterns
of memory dysfunction in current and 2-year abstinent
MDMA (ecstasy) users
Dr Kate Hall
Clinical Psychologist, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre
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| June 10th |
Understanding
chemical dependency in the deaf community
Walter Kadiki
Drug and Alcohol Information & Project Coordinator, Vicdeaf -Victorian Deaf Society
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| July to November 2004 |
| July 9th |
Comorbidity
in young people
Dr Leanne Hides
Clinical Research Coordinator, Substance Use Research and Recovery Focused (SURRF) Program, ORYGEN Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne
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| August 13th |
Nurses
drug and alcohol use and dependence: Creating understanding
Dr Cally Berryman
Coordinator of the Graduate Diploma in Substance Abuse Studies, Victoria University
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| September 10th |
Escape
or lifestyle? An exploration of the links between drug
use, homophobia and sexual diversity in young people
Dr Lynne Hillier
Senior Research Fellow, Australian
Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe
University
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| October 8th |
Decisions,
decisions, decisions: how IDU make the decision to seek
treatment for the first time
Jenn Johnston
Research Fellow, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre and Monash University
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| November 19th |
Fluidity
in a street-based drug market
Robyn Dwyer
National Drug Research Institute
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| February to June 2004 |
| February 13th |
Rethinking theory and practice in indigenous alcohol and other drug usage
Gregory Phillips
Co-ordinator, Indigenous Health Curriculum Development Project, VicHealth Koori Health Research and Development Unit, The University of Melbourne |
| March 12th |
The immediate and long-term impact of alcohol ingestion
Dr Alan J Gijsbers
Specialist Physician at Turning Point, St Vincent's and Epworth Hospitals and Medical Director of The Melbourne Clinic Substance Withdrawal Program |
| April 16th |
Substance-related brain injury: what does the research tell us and how can we respond?
Martin Jackson
Director, Psychology Clinic, LaTrobe University & Senior Clinical Neuropsychologist, ARBIAS
Mandy Philactides
Alcohol and Drug Acquired Brain Injury Clinician/Consultant, South East Alcohol & Drug Services |
| May 14th |
Domestic violence and alcohol
Virginia Geddes
Coordinator, Domestic Violence & Incest Resource Centre
Margot Scott
Training Coordinator, Domestic Violence & Incest Resource Centre |
| June 11th |
‘It might be a scummy-arsed drug but it's a sick buzz’: chroming and pleasure
Sarah MacLean
PhD candidate, Youth Research Centre, The University of Melbourne |
| July
to November 2003 |
| July
11th |
Why
the needle and syringe program is not based on evidence
John Ryan
Executive Officer, ANEX |
| August
8th |
Parental
alcohol and drug use: keeping the kids
in mind
Dr
Lynda Campbell
Menka Tsantefski
School of Social Work, University of Melbourne |
| September
12th |
Challenges and
idiosyncracies of treating alcohol and drug problems
in a rural context
Dr
Rodger Brough
Director, Alcohol & Drug Services, South West Healthcare
Warrnambool & Director, Australian Rural Centre for
Addictive Behaviours, Warrnambool |
| October
10th |
Self-help groups
and recovery from drug use problems: insights from
research, practice and theory
Assoc
Prof John Toumbourou, Centre for Adolescent Health,
University of Melbourne
Gordon Storey, Executive Officer, SHARC
(Self Help Addiction Resource Centre) |
| November
28th |
Reviewing
Victoria's alcohol and drug service system
Dr Alison Ritter, Head of
Research
Dr Lynda Berends, Manager of Evaluation and Service
System Development
Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre |
| February
to June 2003 |
| February
14th |
Does
marijuana make you go MAD?
Professor David Castle
Professorial Fellow,
Mental Health Research Institute and The University of
Melbourne |
| March
14th |
Clinical
guidelines for the use of buprenorphine in pregnancy
Dr Adrian Dunlop
Drug and Alcohol Physician,
Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre |
| April
11th |
Forensic
drug intelligence and the community
Cate Quinn
Manager Drugs Branch,
Victoria Forensic Science Centre |
| May
9th |
Future
directions for Aboriginal youth
Paul Briggs
Convenor, Victorian Aboriginal Leadership Network;
President, Rumbalara Football Netball Club |
| June
13th |
Management
dilemmas in severe youth substance abuse: what can we
achieve?
Dr Yvonne Bonomo
Physician in Adolescent Medicine,
Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, YSAS and the
Centre for Adolescent Health |
July
to November 2002
July
12 [cancelled]
Future directions for Aboriginal youth
Paul Briggs
Convenor, Victorian Aboriginal Leadership Network & President,
Rumbalara Football Netball Club
August 9
Syringe exchanges in European prisons
Dr
Friederike Veit
Adolescent Medicine Physician & 2001 Winston Churchill
Fellow
September 13
Drugs: addiction or adrenalin
Rev Tim Costello
Director, Urban Seed & National President, Baptist Union
of Australia
October 11
Media and the drugs policy agenda: what are the relationships?
John Tebbutt
Media Studies Program, La Trobe University
November 8
Full speed ahead: developments in treatment for amphetamine
use
Dr Nicole Lee
Senior Clinical Psychologist & Senior Research Fellow,
Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre
February–June
2002
February 8
Women and Drugs Forum
Chaired by Professor Margaret Hamilton, Director, Turning
Point Alcohol & Drug Centre
Speakers:
• Susan Donath, Research Fellow, Turning Point EpiCentre
• Sandy Cook, Executive Officer, Drugs and Crime Prevention
Committee, Victorian Parliament
• Dr Sue Davies, Senior Lecturer, La Trobe Law
• Adele Murdolo, Manager, Working Women’s Health
• Helen Barnacle, psychologist and author of Don’t
Let Her See Me Cry
March 15
Outreach – more than just a walk in the park?
CCI Team, Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre
April 12
Drugs, money and the art of decoration
David Crosbie, CEO, Odyssey House
May 10
Dual diagnosis, the chicken and the egg: who really benefits
from the struggle over client ownership?
Northern Dual Diagnosis Team, St Vincent’s Hospital and
Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre
June 14
Exploring issues around peer administration of naloxone
Kate Cantwell, Metropolitan Ambulance Service & Department
of Public Health, University of Melbourne
Stephen Burgess, Paramedic Sciences, Victoria University
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July–November 2001
July 13
The face of injecting drug users in community hepatitis
C prevention
Dr John Fitzgerald, Department of Criminology, University
of Melbourne
August 10
Reducing tobacco use in Australia - results of recent strategies
and campaigns
Professor David Hill, Director, Cancer Control Research Institute,
Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria and Director, Centre for Behavioural
Research in Cancer
September 14
Non-fatal drug overdoses attended by ambulances in Melbourne
- prevalence, patterns and bystander responses
Dr Paul Dietze, VicHealth Public Health Research Fellow, Turning
Point Alcohol & Drug Centre
October 12
Effective prevention – doing drug treatment workers
out of a job?
Chaired by Bern Murphy, National Advisory Committee on School
Drug Education and Premier’s Drug Prevention Council
Speakers:
• John Toumbourou, Associate Professor, University of
Melbourne, Centre for Adolescent Health
• Geoff Munro, Director, Centre for Youth Drug Studies,
Australian Drug Foundation
• Peter Streker, Community and Health Development Officer,
City of Port Phillip
November 9
Primary health care for street drug using communities
Dr Nick Crofts, Head, Epidemiology and Social Research Unit
and Director, Centre for Harm Reduction, Macfarlane Burnet
Centre for Medical Research
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March–June 2001
March 16
Buprenorphine: a new treatment for heroin dependence
Dr Alison Ritter, Head of Research, Turning Point Alcohol
& Drug Centre
April 20
Has the twelve year South Australian cannabis experiment
worked? Reflections on South Australia’s Cannabis Expiation
Notice System
Dr Adam Sutton, Department of Criminology, The University
of Melbourne
May 11
State of play in alcohol and drug policy and services
Paul McDonald, Assistant Director of Drug Policy and Services,
Department of Human Services
June 8
Homelessness and Drugs
Netty Horton, CEO, Council for Homeless Persons and Chair
of Victorian Homeless Strategy
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