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Delivery Systems for Substance Abuse Treatment. An International Conference Istanbul, Turkey September 5-7, 2005 Sponsoring Organizations: USIP UNODC, UCLA SAMHSA, MERC, WHO, ISAM. Conference Overview. 65 Substance Abuse experts gathered from 23 countries
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Delivery Systems forSubstance Abuse Treatment An International Conference Istanbul, Turkey September 5-7, 2005 Sponsoring Organizations: USIP UNODC, UCLA SAMHSA, MERC, WHO, ISAM
Conference Overview • 65 Substance Abuse experts gathered from 23 countries • September 5-7, 2005 in Istanbul, Turkey • Conference Goals: • Share information on the substance abuse challenges facing individual countries and broader regions • Promote regional cooperation on substance abuse issues • Discuss the integration of substance abuse treatment services with primary care, mental health, and social service systems in countries with developing systems
Mohammed Afifi - SARC/Palestine Thomas Babor - UCHU/USA Terry Chambers - ISAJE/USA Gabriele Fischer - Medical University of Vienna/Austria Tarek M.S.A. Gawad - ISAM/Cairo University/Egypt Albert Hasson - UCLA/USA Conference Manager Richard Isralowitz - Ben Gurion University/Israel Nasser Loza – Behman Hospital/ Egypt Vladimir Poznyak - WHO/Switzerland Solomon Rataemane - University of Limpopo/South Africa Richard Rawson - UCLA/USA Conference Co-Chair Jack Stein - NIDA/USA Juana Tomas-Rossello - UNODC/Vienna Darren Urada - UCLA/USA Conference Co-Chair Steering Committee
Co-Sponsoring Organizations • United States Institute of Peace (USIP) • United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) • University of California, Los Angeles (USA) • U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) • U.S. Agency for International Development’s Middle East Cooperation (USAID/MERC) • U.S. National Institutes on Drug Abuse (NIDA) • World Health Organization (WHO) • International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM)
Africa Kenya Mauritius Morocco South Africa Uganda North America United States Country Representation • Middle East • Egypt • Jordan • Iran • Iraq • Israel • Lebanon • Palestine Authority • Turkey • Europe • Austria • Finland • Spain • Switzerland • United Kingdom • Russia • Slovak Republic • Slovenia • Ukraine
General Themes • Substance Abuse Delivery Systems – Past and Present (Rawson, Urada, Uchtenhagen) • Integration of Substance Abuse with other Systems – Benefits and Challenges • Primary Care (Babor) • Mental Health (Grella) • Social Systems (Stenius)
General Themes • Special Populations • Women (Mordecovitch) • Prisoners (Azarakhsch • Infectious Diseases (Farrell) • HIV/AIDS (Farrell, Azarakhsch) • Economic Considerations (Weisner) • Current Pharmacotherapies (Fischer, Elkashef)
General Themes • Research to Practice • SAMHSA (Mitchell/Curie) • UNODC (Tomas-Rossello) • NIDA (Stein) • UCLA (Rawson) • Next Steps • Continuing and Future Joint Work • Information sharing
Outcomes • DVD: “Drug Abuse Treatment and International Cooperation” • Currently available • Website: www.uclaisap.org/dssat/2005 • UNODC and UCLA – TREATNET Capacity Building: International Network of Drug Dependence Treatment and Rehabilitation Resource Centres • Kenya and Israel – USAID: Cooperative Development Research Program (Under Review) • UCLA and Kenya – Assessment of Drug Use and HIV in Kenya Prisons (Under Development) • South Africa and USA – NIDA’s International Collaboration on Drug Addiction • Initiated Regional data sharing among Middle Eastern, African, and European countries with the goal of forming Epidemiological Work Groups (REWGs)