Conferences and symposia

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2012 Western Australian Drug and Alcohol conference - Making it Happen: Improving Services through Collaboration, 6-8 August 2012, Burswood Convention Centre, Perth

Presentations from past conferences and symposia 

Hope, hype of hard evidence? Alcohol and other drugs practice in the new millenium, 30 August - 1 September 2010, Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle, WA

Presentations - Tuesday 31 August, 2010

• Alcohol harm, demand and supply reduction: what is the strongest cocktail - Professor Tim Stockwell 
• Impact of parental drug use on children and the needs of children with drug dependent families - Professor Neil McKeganey
• What's happening with amphetamines: Use, problems and implications for interventions - Professor Steve Allsop
• Screening and brief intervention for alcohol use among trauma patients in WA: Bridging the gaps between evidence and practivce - Dr Melanie Newton 
• Sustainable change: Lessons learnt from Fitzroy Crossing and Halls Creek - Grant Akesson (The Drug and Alcohol Office)
• Alcohol warning labels: Impact on alcohol consumption among women of childbearing age - Dr Celia Wilkinson
• A community takes control: Ord valley Aboriginal Health Service's Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Project - Penny Bridge
• Indigenous-specific substance mis-use interventions in WA - Dr Mandy Wilson and Michael Doyle
• 'Slow Down' DVD: Using multimedia to engage the Aboriginal community - Mitchell Dobbie and Alex McIntosh
• Exploring the occurence of comorbid substance use and mental health problems - Dr Marika Guggisberg
• The benefits of using an intensive multi-component parenting program for use with multi-problem high risk families - Lucy Hayne and Liana Marrone 
• SJGHC-SOA Services for young people with complex presentations - Jasminka Vuckovic-Kosanovic and Melody Birrell

Presentations - Wednesday 1 September 2010

• Changing risk behaviours one small step at a time - Dr Martin Iguchi
• Self-regulation of alcohol advertising in Australia: Much hype, little hope - Professor Rob Donovan 
• Indigenous tobacco control is not an indigenous issue; it needs to be on everyone's agenda - Ms Viki Briggs and Ms Dallas McKeown-Young
• Evidence based measures to reduce alcohol related harm - Dr Alex Wodak
• Investigating injection rates among imprisoned drug users - James Fetherston
• Drug trends and crime tracking: A research study investigating the relationship between heroin, amphetamine and cannabis use, drug related harm and crime in WA - Dr Anthony Gunnell (Drug and Alcohol Office) 
• Aboriginal people, drug and alcohol misuse and the WA justice system: Is there hope in the new millenium - John Hart
• Drug education in Victorian schools: Findings from a comprehensive school drug education pilot research program - Associate Professor Richard Midford
• Australian School Student Alcohol and Drug survey: Illicit drug use among 12-17 year old school students in WA in 2008 - Rebecca Hood (Drug and Alcohol Office)
• ACCU: The adolescent cannabis check up - Etty Matalon 
• A screening MRI brain study to determine the prevalence of cerebral abnormalities in amphetamine users presenting to the Emergency Department -  Professor Daniel Fatovich 
• Vulnerable populations: Substance use in the WA HIV Cohort study - Susan Herrman 
• Implementation of a smoke-free policy in WA Health Department premises and grounds: An evaluation of the impact on inpatient substance use - Pauline Griffiths (Drug and Alcohol Office)