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The National Harm Reduction Conference is a time for renewal and rejuvenation… What better place, what better time, and who better than us to determine how to continue dismantling the system that keeps the people we love in harm’s way?— MONIQUE TULA

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HARMREDUCTION.ORG/CONFERENCE

11th NATIONAL

HARM REDUCTIONCONFERENCE

SAN DIEGONOV 3–62016

WELCOME HARM REDUCTION FAMILY AND FRIENDS!

The National Harm Reduction Conference is the most widely attended harm reduction gathering in the nation, and the only conference of its kind in the United States. Every two years, over a thousand leaders, decision makers, frontline service providers, community activists, people who use drugs, and their allies come together to learn and build together.

This year’s conference comes at a time when harm reduction, health care, and drug policy reform have entered a dynamic and critical phase. The prescription opioid and heroin overdose epidemic has captured the nation’s attention, with renewed focus on transmission of HIV and viral hepatitis among people who inject drugs. These trends are reshaping the policy and public health landscapes, making harm reduction more urgent and relevant than ever before.

As harm reductionists, our work is to level the playing field for people who use drugs. For the past 25 years, we’ve been raging against the machine, but we’ve also learned how to dismantle it from the inside. And as a result, we can celebrate the partial lifting of the ban on federal support for syringe access programs. People in the White House are using phrases we’ve used for years and advocating alongside us for sane drug policies and expansion of public health approaches to substance use.

Yet, in spite of all we’ve accomplished, we are seeing unprecedented rates of people dying from fatal opioid overdoses and people being ripped from their communities and incarcerated for drug-related crimes.

The US is at a pivotal moment in time: more than four decades after the civil rights movement, America is once again faced with re-examining its regressive criminal justice policies and practices. In spite of what has been deemed a “kinder, gentler” response to the drug war, we know that not everyone has benefitted from this shift. If you’re poor or live in a rural area, chances are you may not have access to expanded treatment and support services the way someone living in a region of the country with more resources and political will to change “the system.” If you’re homeless and living in an urban center, chances are you’ll be swept up in urban camp raids and left without the means to care for yourself in the way most people take for granted. If you’re a black or brown person, it pretty much doesn’t matter where you live: chances are you will serve a disproportionately long sentence if found to be guilty of a drug-related crime.

The National Harm Reduction Conference is a time for renewal and rejuvenation, none of which can happen without the generous support of our sponsors or without you, our comrades. What better place, what better time, and who better than us to determine how to continue dismantling the system that keeps the people we love in harm’s way? So glad you are here with us—let’s plan the future, together.

In Solidarity,

Monique TulaExecutive Director

SUPPORTING SPONSORS ADAPT PHARMA · AIDS UNITED · AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH · AMPHASTAR PHARMACEUTICAL, INC. · BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS · CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF HEATH OFFICE OF AIDS · COMER FAMILY FOUNDATION · DR. BRONNER’S · FISHMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION · GILEAD SCIENCES, INC. · H. VAN AMERINGEN FOUNDATION · JANSSEN · KALÉO · MAC AIDS FUND · OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS · ORASURE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · SAFETY WORKS · SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (SAMHSA)

CONTENTS

Agenda At-A-Glance 4

Daily Agenda

Thursday Nov. 3 6

Friday Nov. 4 11

Saturday Nov. 5 17

Sunday Nov. 6 24

Film Festival Schedule 25

Pavilion Schedule 30

Acknowledgements 34

Exhibitors 35

Floorplans 36

Safety Disclosure StatementWhile the conference is a place to challenge ideas, philosophies and approaches for reducing drug- related harm, it is not a forum for judging any individual’s personal choices about drug use.The Harm Reduction Coalition requests and expects, but cannot guarantee, that attendees’ confidentiality will be respected and upheld.

DON’T MISS:

HARM REDUCTION FASHION SHOW, A CONFERENCE TRADITION

ON FRIDAY. NOV. 4 AT 8PM IN GRANDE BALLROOM A

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East vs. West Soccer GameSPANISH LANDING PARK EAST

11:00 AM – 12:30 PMPanels, Workshops, RoundtablesVARIOUS LOCATIONS

2:15 PM – 3:45 PMPanels, Workshops, RoundtablesVARIOUS LOCATIONS

5:45 PM – 7:15 PM Panels, Workshops, RoundtablesVARIOUS LOCATIONS


9:30 AM – 10:45 AM PANEL: Harm Reduction and the Heroin Moment GRANDE BALLROOM A

FRIDAY, NOV. 4

2:15 PM – 3:45 PMPanels, Roundtables, WorkshopsVARIOUS LOCATIONS

1:00 PM – 2:00 PMLunch (ON YOUR OWN)


7:30 PM – 8:30 PMHRC ReceptionBAY VIEW LAWN

9:00 PM – 10:00 PMHarm Reduction Trivia NightSHORELINE


12:45 PM – 2:00 PM LUNCHEON SYMPOSIUM (LUNCH PROVIDED) HARBOR ISLAND BALLROOM 2/3

10:30 AM – 12:45PMWelcome GRANDE BALLROOM A/B

THURSDAY, NOV. 3

8:00 PM – 10:00 PMHarm Reduction Fashion ShowGRANDE BALLROOM A

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM CA Syringe Supply Clearing House Meet and GreetHARBOR’S EDGE PRIVATE DINING ROOM

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Registration: Thursday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

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12:45 PM – 2:00 PMLunch (ON YOUR OWN)

11:00 AM – 12:30 PMPanels, Workshops, RoundtablesVARIOUS LOCATIONS


A Town Hall Listening Session with the CDC SEABREEZE


11:15APM –12:30 PMClosing PlenaryGRANDE BALLROOM A/B

6:00 PM–8:00 PMART*GEEK*LOVE: Special Closing Event with Spoken Word Open Mic PAVILION, CREATIVITY ZONE


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7:30 PM – 9:30 PM Treatment Professionals Town Hall MeetingNAUTILUS 1

10:00 AM – 8:00 PM ART*GEEK*LOVE: One-day Pop-up Art Show PAVILION, CREATIVITY ZONE

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9:00 PM–12:00 MidnightDance PartyHARBOR ISLAND 2

Registration: Saturday, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3 LOCATION: GRANDE BALLROOM A/B

10:30 AM – 12:45 PM

WELCOME Allan Clear, Office of Drug User Health, NYSDOH/AIDS Institute, New York, NYMonique Tula, Harm Reduction Coalition, Oakland, CA Opening Plenary Panel

Harm Reduction that Heals the Most Harmed: A Call to ActionModerator: asha bandele is Drug Policy Alliance’s Senior Director of Grants, Partnerships and Special Projects and lives in New York City.Panelists:

Patrisse Cullors is an artist, organizer, freedom fighter, cofounder of Black Lives Matter, and lives in Los Angeles.Crystal Lee, enrolled member of the Navajo Tribe, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA School of Medicine, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Psychiatry and founder of United Natives. Crystal lives in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.Tanagra María Melgarejo Pulido is an adjunct instructor at Universidad del Turabo and Permanent Housing Coordinator at Proyecto Matria in San Juan, Puerto RicoDeborah Small is a Public Health Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, founder of Break the Chains, and lives in the Bay Area.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

LUNCH (ON YOUR OWN)

2:15 PM – 3:45 PM

LOCATION: GRANDE BALLROOM A

PANEL: High-tech Harm Reduction Moderator: Benjamin Phillips, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY

Using Text Messages to Engage People Living with HIV Who Also Use Drugs in Medical Care

Lara Coffin, HIV, ID and Global Medicine Division, UCSF, San Francisco, CA

The Effectiveness of Internet and Field-based Approaches to Recruit Young Adults who use Prescription Opioids Non-Medically: The RAPiDS Study

Brandon Marshall, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI

Creating a Digital Harm Reduction Tool for LGBTQ People Experiencing Co-occurring Issues with Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drugs

Jeremy Wiggins, Victorian AIDS Council, Melbourne, Australia

Because The Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Consequences: Harm Reduction in the Digital Age

Nick van Breda, Washington Heights CORNER Project, Sydney Uniting Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC), New York, New YorkTracey Helton-Mitchell, Independent, San Francisco, CA

Implementation of Online Opioid Overdose Prevention, Recognition and Response Training with Standing Orders for Naloxone Access: Two State Models (PA and MD)

Janie Simmons, National Development Research Institutes, Inc. (NRDI), New York, NYErin Haas, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, MD

LOCATION: GRANDE BALLROOM B

WORKSHOP: Harm Reduction the Rez WayEmmy Rudolph, White Earth Nation MOMS program, Oshki Manidoo, Naytahwaush, MNAdam Fairbanks, White Earth Nation MOMS program, Oshki Manidoo, Naytahwaush, MNMina Spalla, White Earth Nation MOMS program, Oshki Manidoo, Naytahwaush, MNJulie Williams, White Earth Nation MOMS program, Oshki Manidoo, Naytahwaush, MNJeri Jasken, White Earth Nation MOMS program, Oshki Manidoo, Naytahwaush, MNJeremy Syverson, White Earth Nation MOMS program, Oshki Manidoo, Naytahwaush, MN

LOCATION: NAUTILUS 2

WORKSHOP: Harm Reduction Clinical Supervision: Practicing What We Preach With Staff as Well as Clients

Patt Denning, Center for Harm Reduction Therapy, San Francisco, CAJeanne Little, Center for Harm Reduction Therapy, Oakland, CA

LOCATION: MARINA 2

PANEL: Environment, Risk, and Subjectivity: Notes on Outreach Work in Cracolândia, São Paulo, Brazil

Isabela Umbuzeiro Valent, Centro de Convivência É de Lei, São Paulo, BrazilMarina dos Passos Sant’Anna, Centro de Convivência É de Lei, São Paulo, Brazil



PANEL: All About StigmaModerator: Julie Stampler

Can We Reduce Harm by Eliminating the Label “Alcoholic?”

Annie Grace, This Naked Mind, Aspen, Colorado

Medication Assisted Treatment: Stigma, Misinformation, and Pharmacology

Denise Cullen, Broken No More, Orange, CAAimee Dunkle, Broken No More, Rancho Santa Margarita, CASam Snodgrass, Broken No More, Little Rock, AR

Constructions of Illegality: The Criminalization of Migrants and Drug Users by the State

Haley Coles, Sonoran Prevention Works, Phoenix, AZErin Hoekstra, Shot in the Dark, Phoenix, AZNathan Leach, Shot in the Dark, Phoenix, AZ


WORKSHOP: Taller de Energía y Sanación Maya: Meditación con Danza y Tambores

Patricia E Gonzalez-Zuniga, UCSD/La Casa del Centro/Wound Clinic, La Casa del Centro, San Diego, CAGilberto Zuniga, UCSD/La Casa del Centro/Wound Clinic, La Casa del Centro, San Diego, CA


WORKSHOP: The Roof, the Roof, the Roof is on Fire, we DO give a DAMN, so don’t let the Mother burn: Extinguishing Burnout for Staff Providing Harm Reduction Care

Dana Davis, Youngstown State University, The Open Door, Youngstown, OHChristina Farmartino, Youngstown State University, The Open Door, Youngstown, OHColleen Henning, Youngstown State University, The Open Door, Youngstown, OH

LOCATION: SEABREEZE

WORKSHOP: Florida Report 2015 Positively (T+) Trans Survey/Ariann@ Center

Arianna Lint, Ariann@Center/Translatina FL, Ft. Lauderdale, FLKella Lint, Ariann@Center/Translatina FL, Ft. Lauderdale, FLKella Moreno, Ariann@Center/Translatina FL, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

LOCATION: PAVILION

ROUNDTABLE: Economic Development and Harm Reduction

Malika Lamont, Interfaith Works Shelter Program Volunteer, Olympia, WAMeg Martin, Interfaith Works Shelter Program Volunteer, Olympia, WA

LOCATION: MARINA 3

PANEL: The Ithaca Plan: A Health-and-Safety Approach to Drugs and Drug Policy

Gwen Wilkinson, Southern Tier AIDS Program, Binghamton, NYLillian Fan, Southern Tier AIDS Program, Binghamton, NY


PANEL: Abuses in Residential Drug Treatment Centers across Borders: United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean

Debora Upegui-Hernandez, Intercambios Puerto Rico, Fajardo, Puerto RicoRafael Torruella, Intercambios Puerto Rico, Fajardo, Puerto RicoDenise Tomasini-Joshi, Open Society Foundations, New York, NYAdriana Cardona-Maguigad, Univision, Chicago, IL

LOCATION: SPINNAKER 1

ROUNDTABLE: Emergent Themes in Police Officers’ Health Concerns During a Police Education Program Focused on HIV and Harm Reduction

Ellane Bustamante Rojo, Comisión De Salud Fronteriza, Tijuana, MexicoMaria Luisa Mittal, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA Mario Morales, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA Erika Clairgue, Comisión De Salud Fronteriza, Tijuana, MexicoEfrain Patiño, Comisión De Salud Fronteriza, Tijuana, MexicoTeresita Rocha, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM


PANEL: Youth Engaged in Sexual Exchange: In Research and Practice

Irina Alexander, At the Crossroads,San Francisco, CA Kiefer Paterson, AIDS United, Washington, D.C. Amber Horning, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJJill McCracken, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL



PANEL: Illicitly Manufactured Fentanyl in the United States: Implications for Overdose Prevention and Public HealthModerator: Gary Langis, Education Development Center, Inc., Waltham, MA

Jon Zibbell, Emory University, Atlanta, GADan Ciccarone, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CAEliza Wheeler, Harm Reduction Coalition, Oakland, CAMary Wheeler, Health Streets Outreach, Health Innovations, Lynn, MAAllan Clear, NYSDOH/AIDS Institute, New York, NY

LOCATION: MARINA 2

PANEL: Victory or Death: Seattle’s Consumption Room Shilo Jama, The People’s Harm Reduction Alliance, Seattle, WATom Fitzpatrick, The People’s Harm Reduction Alliance, Seattle, WAVivek Chaudhary, Urban Survivors Union, Seattle, WA

LOCATION: MARINA 3

WORKSHOP: From Facebook to Festivals: Harm Reduction Outreach Across the Physical/Digital Divide

Michael Gilbert, Epidemico, Boston, MA


PANEL: Health and Corrections Moderator: Sharon Stancliff, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY

Health Care is Public Safety: How the Affordable Care Act Can Help End the Overuse of the Criminal Justice System

Terri Hurst, Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, Denver, CO

The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office: A Holistic Model of Criminal Defense

Christina Powers, San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, San Francisco, CA

HIV Prevention in Prison, Tijuana, Mexico Andres Gaeta, Centro Ser, A.C, Tijuana, Mexico

Syringe Access in US Jails and Prisons: Lessons from the International Community

Andrew Reynolds, Project Inform, San Francisco, CA

Missed Opportunities for Intervention in Correctional Facilities: Barriers to Harm Reduction Interventions and Solutions for Change

Jeremy Galloway, Julie Apperson, Dale Schafer, Carol Katz Beyer, Barry Lessin, Families for Sensible Drug Policy and Southeast Harm Reduction Project, Philadelphia, PA, and Roseville, CA


PANEL: Understanding and Responding to Widespread Attacks on the Dignity of People Who Inject Drugs and Other Key Populations

Samuel Friedman, National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI), New York, NYEnrique Pouget, National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI), New York, NYMilagros Sandoval, National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI), New York, NYDiana Rossi, Intercambios Civil Association, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaPedro Mateu-Gelabert, National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI), New York, NYGeorgios Nikolopoulos, Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Thessaloniki, Greece


WORKSHOP: The Weird and the Wonderful: Infectious and Other Medical Sequelae of Drug Use

Phillip Coffin, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA


WORKSHOP: Developing a Hepatitis C Peer Navigation Program at NYC Syringe Exchange Programs

Diana Diaz Muñoz, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NYNirah Johnson, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NYEmma Roberts, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NYFabienne Laraque, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NYJanette Yung, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY

LOCATION: SEABREEZE

PANEL: Evidence-based Hospital Policy for Pregnant People Who Use Illicit Substances and their Families: A Progress Report

Joelle Puccio, People’s Harm Reduction Alliance, Seattle, WAGlyceria Tsinas, Eugene, OR


ROUNDTABLE: Developing an Anarchist Response to HIV and Hepatitis C

Zoe Dodd, Toronto Drug Users Union/Toronto Community Hep C Program, Toronto, CanadaAlexander McClelland, Humanities Doctoral Program Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society & Culture, Montreal, Canada


LOCATION: PAVILION

ROUNDTABLE: Contrasting Views on Harm Reduction Therapy (Cognitive, Behavioral, Psychoanalytic, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Narrative)

Adi Jaffe, Alternatives Behavioral Health, LLC, Los Angeles, CA

LOCATION: MARINA 5

ROUNDTABLE: Cutting the Crap of Injecting Drug Tablets

Nick van Breda, Washington Heights CORNER Project/Sydney Uniting Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC), New York, NYSarah Hiley, Sydney Uniting Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC), Sydney, AustraliaMaureen Steele, Sydney Uniting Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC), Sydney, Australia


WORKSHOP: A Different Fight 20 Years Later: Syringe Access and Disposal in San Francisco

Eileen Loughran, San Francisco Department of Health, San Francisco, CAJose Luis Guzman, San Francisco Department of Health, San Francisco, CA

5:45 PM – 7:15 PM


PANEL: Setting Down Roots I: Starting Syringe ProgramsModerator: Beth Herman, Family Health Centers of San Diego,San Diego, CA

Indian Country and Syringe AccessKristofer Fourstar, Fort Peck Tribes, Poplar, MTAurora Conley, Bad River Indian Reservation, Odanah, WI

A Translational Journey to Bring Syringe Exchange to Florida

Hansel Tookes, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL

Syringe Access in Ohio and the Legalization of ItChris Krueger, AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland, Cleveland, OHAdam Reilly, Caracole, Cincinnati, OH

Setting Down Roots in the South: Syringe Exchange in Kentucky

Matthew LaRocco, Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness, Louisville, KY

Successful Passage of Syringe Access Legislation in a Conservative State: The Utah Experience

Jennifer Plumb, Utah Naloxone, Salt Lake City, UT


PANEL: Come as You Are: Even if You’re a Racist?! Working with Race, Class, and Hate in Harm Reduction Groups and Community Settings

Diana Valentine, The Center for Harm Reduction Therapy, San Francisco, CAMaurice Byrd, The Center for Harm Reduction Therapy, San Francisco, CALeticia Brown, St. James Infirmary and Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CAMary Howe, Homeless Youth Alliance, San Francisco, CAVero Majano, Mission Neighborhood Resource Center, San Francisco, CA

LOCATION: MARINA 3

WORKSHOP: From Silk Road to Street Outreach: Harm Reduction Research and Darknet Drug Markets

Michael Gilbert, Epidemico, Boston, MA


PANEL: Clinical Investigation of Iboga Alkaloids Addresses Role of Meth/HIV Vector Amongst Gay Men

Dana Beal, Cures Not Wars, New York, NYClare S. Wilkins, Director, Pangea Biomedics; Board of Directors, Global Ibogaine Therapy Alliance (GITA), Jalisco, MexicoJeffrey Kalmet, Florida Society of Addiction Medicine, Orlando, FL

Results of Ibogaine Treatment for Opioid Dependence: Improvements in Quality of Life, Reductions in Usage

Thomas Kingsley Brown, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), Santa Cruz, CA


PANEL: Using Evaluation to Inform Harm Reduction Service Delivery

Scott Spiegler, Harlem United Community AIDS Center, New York, NYRebecca Goldberg, Managing Director of IHRP and RSS at Harlem United, New York, NYMaNtsetse Kgama, Director of Program Evaluation Systems, Quality Improvement, Research, and Evaluation, SQIRE, New York, NY


PANEL: What Happened to the HIV Epidemic?Moderator: Alma Candelas

What Happened to the HIV Epidemic Among Non-Injecting Drug Users in New York City?

Don Des Jarlais, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, NY Kamyar Arateh, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, NY

Looking at Some Probable Causes of the Causes of HIV and Thoughts about Harm Reduction and Action to Change Harmful Structures and Policies

Samuel Friedman, National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI), New York, NY



WORKSHOP: Street Team Outreach Medical Program (STOMP): Theory, Practice, and Realities

Braunz Courtney, HIV Education and Prevention Project (HEPPAC), Oakland, CALoris Mattox, HIV Education and Prevention Project (HEPPAC), Oakland, CA


WORKSHOP: Using Digital Storytelling to Reduce Stigma, Improve Health Outcomes, and Reduce Health Disparities Among Those Who Use Drugs or Are in Recovery

Andres Guerrero, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, COMarty Otanez, University of Colorado Denver- Department of Anthropology, Denver, CO


ROUNDTABLE: Improving Hepatitis C Screening and Treatment in At-risk Populations

Andrew Reynolds, Project Inform, San Francisco, CA

LOCATION: PAVILION

ROUNDTABLE: Harm Reduction, The Next GenerationCyndee Clay, HIPS, Washington, D.C.

LOCATION: MARINA 2

WORKSHOP: Aren’t You Just Enabling? Responding to Objections to Harm ReductionAlessandra Ross, California Department of AIDS, Sacramento, CA

7:30 PM – 8:30 PM

LOCATION: BAY VIEW LAWN

Harm Reduction Coalition Reception: Meet and Greet Harm Reduction Coalition’s New Executive Director, Monique Tula

9:00 PM–10:00 PM

LOCATION: SHORELINE

HARM REDUCTION TRIVIA NIGHT Get ready for the 4th Annual Harm Reduction Trivia Night!

Past spectacular events have addressed such critical issues as blinded condom flavor guessing and “name that harm reductionist baby!” From disgusting medical facts to name-that-drug-tune, we will keep you entertained while giving you a chance to show your stuff and win fabulous prizes! This is the one trivia night you will go to where all of the questions are related to harm reduction. From plants to wars, sex to celebrities, every question is in your area of expertise!

Hosted by Lara Coffin, Shilo Jama, Philip Coffin


FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM

LOCATION: GRANDE BALLROOM A/B

PLENARY PANEL: Harm Reduction and the Heroin Moment Moderators: Daniel Raymond, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY, and Eliza Wheeler, Harm Reduction Coalition, Oakland, CA

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

LOCATION: MARINA 2

WORKSHOP: Housing First and Harm Reduction Practices and Standards

Suzanne Moore, Caracole, Cincinnati, OHChrissy Rademacher, Caracole, Cincinnati, OH

LOCATION: MARINA 3

WORKSHOP: The Gift of Empowering: Intervention Strategies to Promote Harm Reduction and Self-Efficacy

Laura Buckley, Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, Camden, NJKaren Rentas, Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care, Piscataway, NJ


PANEL: Hep C Outreach ProgramModerator: Jason Norelli, Glide Foundation, San Francisco, CA

A Glimpse of the Future: Integrating State-of-the-art HCV Testing and Treatment into Harm Reduction Outreach

Dan Bigg, Chicago Recovery Alliance, Chicago, IL

Snorting Kit Release: The Rise of Hepatitis C and Branching Out Harm Reduction Services to Non- Injection Drug Users

Lisa Al-Hakim, The People’s Harm Reduction Alliance, Seattle, WA

Primary Care-Based HCV Treatment as Key to Treatment Access for PWIDs: The San Francisco Health Network Case Study

Katie Burk, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CAKelly Eagen, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA

Lessons Learned from an HCV-focused Healthcare Navigation Program for People Who Inject Drugs (PWIDs)

Ricky Bluthenthal, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CAShoshanna Scholar, LA Community Health Project, Los Angeles, CA


PANEL: The International Harm Reduction FrameworkModerator: Allan Clear, NYSDOH/AIDS Institute, New York, NY

Challenges of the Core of Teaching and Research of ´E de Lei’ in the Construction of New Care Practices to People Who Use Drugs in Brazil

Isabela Umbuzeiro Valent, Centro de Convivência É de Lei, São Paulo, BrazilMarina dos Passos Sant’Anna, Centro de Convivência É de Lei, São Paulo, Brazil

The Portugal Decriminalization Framework – Creating Model Policies for State and Local Jurisdictions

Mark Cooke, ACLU of Washington, Seattle, WA

Predictors of Injecting Cessation Among People Who Inject Drugs in Tijuana, Mexico

Danielle Horyniak, University of California at San Diego/Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Cross-Border Injection Drug Use: Injecting Risk Behaviors and Blood-borne Virus Infections Among a Cohort of People Who Inject Drugs in San Diego, California

Danielle Horyniak, University of California at San Diego/Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia

The Case for a Harm Reduction DecadeRick Lines, Harm Reduction International, London, United Kingdom


PANEL: Safer InjectionModerator: Sarah Weir, Harm Reduction Coalition

Spaces for Safer Injection of Illicit Drugs: Qualitative Lessons from an American Underground Supervised Injection Facility

Peter Davidson, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA

The Movement for Safe Consumption Spaces: Community Organizing and the Image of the Drug User in New York City and Seattle

Patricia Sully, Public Defender Association/VOCAL-Washington, Seattle, WAMatt Curtis, VOCAL New York, New York, NY

A Coordinated Approach to the Provision of Supervised Injection Services in Toronto

Shaun Hopkins, The Works, Toronto Public Health, Toronto, CanadaAnne Marie Dicenso, Queen West Central Toronto Community Health Centre, Toronto, Canada

The Tenderloin, San Francisco: Community Trauma Stimulates Community Driven Solutions

Valerie Rose, St. Francis Foundation, San Francisco, CAPaul Harkin, Glide Foundation, San Francisco, CA



PANEL: Ending the Epidemic: Models for Addressing Crystal Methamphetamine Use to Prevent HIV

Jennifer Carmona, New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, New York, NYNasra Aidarus, New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, New York, NYAmida Castagne, New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, New York, NYPaul Kobrak, New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, New York, NYJagadisa-Devasri Dacus, New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, New York, NY


ROUNDTABLE: Youth Engaged in Sexual Exchange: The Conversation

Andrea Ferguson, SWOP-USA, Walnut, CA

LOCATION: PAVILION

ROUNDTABLE: Addressing Hepatitis B: Roundtable Discussion on the Various Barriers to Addressing the Epidemic

Arman Altug, Hepatitis Education Project, Seattle, WA

LOCATION: SEABREEZE

WORKSHOP: Shifting the Script: How Overdose Prevention Training Media Can Save Lives AND Create Change

Gretchen Hildebran, IndependentAcxel Barboza, New York Harm Reduction Educators, New York, NYNarelle Ellendon, NYSDOH/AIDS Institute, New York, NY

LOCATION: SHORELINE

ROUNDTABLE: Say What?! To Label or Not To Label in Harm Reduction

Melissa Eaton, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CAYeah Yeah Cowles, Homeless Youth Alliance, San Francisco, CAHeather Hobson, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CADiana Valentine, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA


ROUNDTABLE: Illusion of Empowerment Louise Vincent, Urban Survivor’s Union, Greensboro, NC

LOCATION: MARINA 5

ROUNDTABLE: The Bathroom Saga Continues: Round 3

Hector Mata, Washington Heights CORNER Project, New York, NY Israel Garcia, Washington Heights CORNER Project, New York, NY

12:45 PM – 2:00 PM

LUNCH (ON YOUR OWN)

LOCATION: SPANISH LANDING PARK EAST

EAST VS. WEST SOCCER GAME

LOCATION: HARBOR ISLAND BALLROOM 2/3

LUNCHEON SYMPOSIUM: ADDRESSING HEPATITIS C: LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND (LUNCH PROVIDED) Hepatitis C is a silent epidemic killing thousands of Americans every year. Approximately 3.5 million Americans live with chronic hepatitis C but only about half of them know it. People who inject drugs have some of the highest rates of infection in the country. Prevention and treatment are needed to reduce the impact of hepatitis C among substance users. The good news is that chronic hepatitis C can be cured. Cure means the virus is not detected in the blood when measured three months after treatment is completed. A simple blood test is the first step to take action. Join us for a discussion on raising the alarm around this silent epidemic among substance users. Event sponsored by Gilead Sciences, Inc.Speakers:

Anthony Martinez, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NYMojgan Zare, Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition, Atlanta, GA

2:15 PM – 3:45 PM


PANEL: Seattle’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Program: Overview and Lessons Learned from Five Years on the Ground

Seema Clifasefi, University of Washington-Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WAKris Nyrop, LEAD National Support Bureau, Seattle, WANatalie Walton-Anderson, King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Seattle, WADeanna Nollette, Seattle Police Department, Seattle, WAChloe Gale, Evergreen Treatment Services-REACH, Seattle, WALEAD Case Manager, Evergreen Treatment Services-REACH, Seattle, WALEAD Participant, Evergreen Treatment Services-REACH, Seattle, WA



PANEL: Harm Reduction and Drug Policy: A Conversation with Ethan Nadelmann and Daniel Raymond

Ethan Nadelmann, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NYDaniel Raymond, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY

LOCATION: MARINA 3

WORKSHOP: Harm Reduction Groups: Come One, Come All, Come As You Are

Maurice Byrd, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CAMelissa Eaton, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA

LOCATION: MARINA 5

ROUNDTABLE: Housing and DrugsMarietta Brodhurst, Gibb Mansion/PACC, Brooklyn, NY


PANEL: Tools of Engagement

Engaging People Who Use Drugs in the Development of an Integrated Methadone and HIV Treatment Program in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Barrot Lambdin, RTI-International, San Francisco, CASaria Hassan, RTI-International, San Francisco, CAAlexis Cooke, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CAJessie Mbwambo, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaDorothy Mushi, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Low-Threshold Primary Healthcare for Patients in Opioid Maintenance Therapy – Harm Reduction through Clinical Practice

Disa Dahlman, Addiction Center, Malmo, SwedenKatja Troberg, Addiction Center, Malmo, Sweden


PANEL: Crack, Pipes, and BeyondModerator: Jarad Ringer, Harm Reduction Coalition

The Impact of Crack-pipe Acquisition Sources on the Rates of Health Problems Associated with Crack Smoking in Vancouver, Canada

Amy Prangnell, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, CanadaHuiru Dong, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, CanadaM-J Milloy, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, CanadaEvan Wood, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, CanadaThomas Kerr, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, CanadaKanna Hayashi, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada

Meth Pipes Because Crack Pipes Are So Last Harm Reduction Coalition Conference

Shilo Jama, People’s Harm Reduction Alliance, Seattle, WA

Expanding Harm Reduction for People Who Use Crack: The San Francisco Experience

Andrew Reynolds, Project Inform, San Francisco, CAIsaac Jackson, Urban Survivors Union, San Francisco, CA

Buying Fear: Crack Cocaine in Costa Rica. An Exploratory Research Project

Ernesto Cortés, ACEID, San Jose, Costa Rica


PANEL: Indian Country and Syringe AccessKristofer Fourstar, Fort Peck Tribes, Poplar, MTAurora Conley, Bad River Indian Reservation, Ashland, WIJessica Rienstra, Lummi Indian Reservation, Seattle, WAClinton Alexander, White Earth Indian Reservation, White Earth, MN


WORKSHOP: Embracing Negative Survivorship and Unhealthy Coping: A Harm Reduction Approach in the Movement against Domestic and Sexual Violence

Emi Koyama, Portland, OR


WORKSHOP: Academic Detailing in Action: How to Get Healthcare Providers to Prescribe Naloxone

Emily Behar, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CAPhillip Coffin, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA

LOCATION: SEABREEZE

WORKSHOP: Opioid Overdose Prevention Initiatives on the College Campus: Partnerships with Academics and Community Experts

Mark Kinzly, TX Opioid Narcan Initiative & Austin Harm Reduction Coalition, Austin, TXLori Holleran Steiker, The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work, Austin, TXMitchell Hinrichs, Student at University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TXLucas Hill, University of Texas at Austin, School of Pharmacy, Austin, TXStephanie Danielle Hamborsky, University of Texas at Austin Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Austin, TXChris Brownson, University of Texas at Austin Office of Student Affairs and Health Services, Austin, TX


LOCATION: PAVILION

ROUNDTABLE: Language, Power, Labeling, Stigma, and Liberation: What Words Should We Be Using in Harm Reduction Work?

Bernie Lieving, Santa Fe Prevention Alliance, Santa Fe, NM

LOCATION: EXECUTIVE ROOM 2

ROUNDTABLE: Funding Our MovementModerator: Julie Stampler, Board of Directors, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY

Paola Barahona, AIDS United, Washington D.C.Sarah Evans, Open Society Foundations, New York, NYMary Pounder, Comer Foundation, Chicago IL Matt Blinstrubas, Elton John AIDS Foundation, New York, NY


ROUNDTABLE: Harm Reduction: It's Not Just for Others: Vicarious Trauma and Self Care for Harm Reduction Workers

Catherine Swanson, Independent, Oakland, CA

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

LOCATION: SEABREEZE

PANEL: The Integration of Harm Reduction and Healthcare: Implications and Lessons for Healthcare Reform

Michele Calvo, The New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NYPeter Schafer, The New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY Taeko Frost, The New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY

LOCATION: MARINA 2

WORKSHOP: Remaining True to Harm Reduction Values within Low-Threshold, Supportive Housing Environments

Jessica Nagel, Community Access, New York, NY


PANEL: Bridging Movements: Harm Reduction and Access to AbortionModerator: Sharon Stancliff, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY

Naomi Braine, Brooklyn College, CUNY, New York, NYLynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women, New York, NYCarmen Landau, Southwest Women’s Options, Albuquerque, NMAlison Ojanen-Goldsmith, Independent, Seattle, WAJeanne Flavin, Fordham University/National Advocates for Pregnant Women, New York, NY


PANEL: Nada Sobre Nosotrxs Sin NosotrxsModerator: Tanagra Melgarejo, Proyecto Matria, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Nada Sobre Nosotrxs Sin Nosotrxs. Reducción de Daños en Poblaciones Marginadas de Costa Rica

Demaluí Amighetti, ACEID, San Jose, Costa RicaErnesto Cortés, ACEID, San Jose, Costa Rica

“My Name is Not Cracudo”: Reflections on Harm Reduction in the Context of Violence from the Perspective of an Open ‘Crack Scene’ in Rio de Janeiro

Mara Gabriel Anhorn, Redes da Maré, Rio de Janiero, Brazil

LOCATION: MARINA 3

WORKSHOP: Am I Harming Them by Housing Them?Kelly Gallaugher, Abode Services, Fremont, CA

LOCATION: MARINA 5

ROUNDTABLE: Majestic Disasters: What to Do When Things Go Terribly Wrong in Harm Reduction Programs

Abigail Dembo, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CACelia Sampayo Perez, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CAMonica Massaro, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA


PANEL: Harm Reduction Training for Law Enforcement: Best Practices and Lessons Learned

Keith Brown, Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice, New York, NYRobert Childs, North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, Raleigh, NCLt. Melissa Gipson, Albany Police Department, Albany, NYOfficer Ben Peterson, Albany Police Department, Albany, NY


PANEL: Prototype to Control Tuberculosis in Tijuana Jose Chavez, UABC-Las Memorias, Tijuana, MexicoAntonio Granillo, Las Memorias AC, Tijuana, MexicoPatricia Gonzalez, Zona Norte Wound Clinic, Tijuana, MexicoSergio Borrego, Las Memorias AC, Tijuana, MexicoMaria Rolon, Zona Norte Wound Clinic, Tijuana, MexicoHoracio Reyna, UABC ECISALUD, Tijuana, Mexico



PANEL: Emerging Models for HIV, Viral Hepatitis Prevention, and Harm Reduction in the Era of Health Care Reform (Part I of II)

Rachel McLean, California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, CAKellen Russionello, ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties, San Diego, CADaniel Raymond, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY


WORKSHOP: Helping Healers Heal: Improving the Relationship between Medical Providers and PWUD



WORKSHOP: Practicing Harm Reduction with Ourselves: The Beautiful Grit of Cultivating a Culture of Community Wellness in the Grip of Chronic Collective Grief/Trauma

Kristin Doneski, AAC/Cambridge Needle Exchange and Overdose Prevention Program, Cambridge, MAHilary Eslinger, Preble Street, Portland, ME


ROUNDTABLE: Welcome to the Magic: Understanding the Essence of Harm Reduction

Dan Bigg, Chicago Recovery Alliance, Chicago, ILMona Bennett, Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition, Atlanta, GAHolly Bradford, San Francisco Drug Users Union, San Francisco, CACatherine Swanson, Independent, Oakland, CAMichael Siever, San Francisco, CA

5:45 PM – 7:15 PM


ROUNDTABLE: Putting Our Heads Together – A Roundtable for Providers of Permanent Supportive Housing

Kelly Gallaugher, Abode Services, Fremont, CA


PANEL: Setting Down Roots, Part IIModerator: Eliza Wheeler, Harm Reduction Coalition, Oakland, CA

Harm Reduction on a Budget in a Conservative County: Meeting Needs with Limited Resources

Candace Winstead, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CAChris Boreham, SLO Bangers Syringe Exchange, San Luis Obispo, CADallas Blanchard, Fresno Needle Exchange, Fresno, CALois Petty, SLO Bangers Syringe Exchange, San Luis Obispo, CA

Standing in the Gap: The Current State of Harm Reduction in Connecticut

Mark Jenkins, Greater Hartford Harm Reduction Coalition, Hartford, CTChris Heneghan, GHHRC, Hartford, CT

Forced Underground to Seek Health Supplies: Harm Reductionists in Arizona and Louisiana Speak Out

Haley Coles, Shot In The Dark, Sonoran Prevention Works, Phoenix, AZNora Maria Fuller, Trystereo, New Orleans, LAElizabeth Gelvin, Trystereo, New Orleans, LA

Building a Needle Exchange in the Desert: Community, Legal, and Operational Aspects of the Orange County Needle Exchange Program (OCNEP)

Kyle Barbour, Orange County Needle Exchange Program, Santa Ana, CAMiriam McQuade, Orange County Needle Exchange Program, Santa Ana, CA

How to Exchange 800,000 Syringes a Year in Only Two Hours per Week: Lessons Learned from Harm Reduction and Research Partnership in California’s Central Valley

Robin Pollini, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, MD


PANEL: MOMS Program: Adding Culture and Traditions to Treatment

Julie Williams, MOMS Program, Naytahwaush MNMina Spalla, MOMS Program, Naytahwaush MNLucas Hisgun, MOMS Program, Naytahwaush MNAtasha Mertens, MOMS Program, Naytahwaush MNDennis Hisgun, MOMS Program, Naytahwaush MNHeidi Gagnon, MOMS Program, Naytahwaush MN

LOCATION: MARINA 2

WORKSHOP: Tangerine Dreams: Trans Competency for the Everyday Harm Reductionist

Kalash KaFae , St. James Infirmary, San Francisco, CAStar Amerasu, St. James Infirmary, San Francisco, CA


WORKSHOP: Planning Supervised Injection Services for your Community

Marliss Taylor, Streetworks, Edmonton, CanadaJulian Daly, Boyle Street Community Services, Edmonton, CanadaElaine Hyshka, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

LOCATION: MARINA 3

WORKSHOP: The Scientific Revolution in Addiction Treatment: From Disease Model to Psychobiosocial Model, From Abstinence-Only to Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy

Andrew Tatarsky, The Center for Optimal Living, New York, NY


LOCATION: MARINA 5

ROUNDTABLE: Harm Reduction Witch SkillsErin Forrest, Red Thistle Remedies, Woodstock, Canada


PANEL: Hear Their Words: Perspectives of Participants in Seattle’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Project

Kris Nyrop, LEAD National Support Bureau, Seattle, WASeema Clifasefi, Harm Reduction Research and Treatment (HaRRT) Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA


PANEL: “¿Por Qué No Te Mueres Ya?” [Why Don’t You Die Already?]: Recent HIV Seroconversion Among People who Inject Drugs (PWID) and Barriers to Care in Tijuana, Mexico

Patricia E. Gonzalez-Zuniga, UCSD/La Casa Centro/Wound Clinic, San Diego, CASteffanie A. Strathdee, UCSD Division of Global Public Health, San Diego, CAMaria Luisa Mittal, UCSD Division of Global Public Health, San Diego, CAClaudia Rafful, UCSD Division of Global Public Health, San Diego, CAIrina Artamonova, UCSD Division of Global Public Health, San Diego, CAJamila Stockman, UCSD Division of Global Public Health, San Diego, CA


PANEL: It’s Not Just Cocaine and Heroin AnymoreModerator: TBD

Adulterants and Recreational Drugs: It’s Not Just Cocaine and Heroin Anymore

Tarik Najeddine, Independent, New York, NY

Advocacy and Health Education: Addressing K2 Use in the South Bronx

Maria Caban, BOOM!Health, New York, NYJulia DeWalt, BOOM!Health, New York, NY

An Age-Based Analysis of Prescription Opioid Misuse Among People who use Illicit Street Drugs in Vancouver, Canada

Tessa Cheng, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada


WORKSHOP: Community Engaged Research to Advance Naloxone Distribution in Treatment Settings

Mary Hawk, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PAJames Egan, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PASarah Danforth, Prevention Point Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

LOCATION: PAVILION

ROUNDTABLE: Dismantling Professional and Clinical Ownership of Community Health and Wellness–Groups as Models of Change for Communities Impacted by HIV/Hep C

Zachary Grant, AIDS Community Care Montreal, Montreal, CanadaZoe Dodd, Toronto Community Hep C Program, Montreal, Canada

LOCATION: SEABREEZE

WORKSHOP: “Stop Throwing Condoms at Us!”: Survival, Risk-Management, and Lived Realities of Trans Women of Color and Others in the Sex Trade

Emi Koyama, Independent, Portland, OR

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

LOCATION: HARBOR’S EDGE PRIVATE DINING ROOM

California Syringe Supply Clearing House Meet and GreetHosted by NASEN and California Office of AIDS

8:00 PM–10:00 PM


HARM REDUCTION FASHION SHOW Join us as Harm Reduction Agencies strut their stuff, modeling their unique outreach wear. Hosted by Kathy Day and Gary Langis


SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM


PANEL: HCV 1Moderator: TBD

Proper Hepatitis C Testing in Outreach: A First Step in Addressing Inequities Faced by Persons Who Inject Drugs

Suzanne Carlberg-Racich, DePaul University, Chicago, IL

Comprehensive Models for HIV, Viral Hepatitis Prevention and Harm Reduction: Implementation of the FOCUS Program in Harm Reduction Settings

Loris Mattox, HIV Education and Prevention Project of Alameda County, Oakland, CAMarie Sutton, Imagine Hope, Inc., Atlanta, GATerrie Tingle-Harris, Career and Recovery Resources, Inc., Houston, TX

An Update on Hepatitis C Treatment Access for 2016Rich Feffer, Hepatitis Education Project, Seattle, WA

Hepatitis C Advocacy in California: A Case Study Emalie Huriaux, Project Inform, California Hepatitis Alliance, San Francisco, CA


PANEL: Nothing About Us Without UsModerator: Robert Suarez, US Alliance of Drug User Unions

Nothing About Us Without Us: Sex Worker Leadership, Policy, and Research

P. Saunders, Best Practices Policy ProjectDerek Demeri, New Jersey Red Umbrella Alliance, New JerseyMonica Jones, Stand with Monica Campaign, Phoenix, AZ

“They Knew This Was a Red Light District Before They Moved In”: Gentrification and Street-based Sex Work

Katie Hail-Jares, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

LOCATION: MARINA 3

WORKSHOP: A Get-REAL Approach to Linkages of Care for African American HIV+ MSM and Young MSM: A Collaborative to Reduce Substance Use and Co-occurring Mental Disorders

Camryn Crump, AIDS Project East Bay (APEB), Oakland, CAAngela Green, AIDS Project East Bay (APEB), Oakland, CADavid Hillary, AIDS Project East Bay (APEB), Oakland, CA

LOCATION: MARINA 5

ROUNDTABLE: Loving Someone Who Loves Drugs and Alcohol

Patt Denning, Center for Harm Reduction Therapy, San Francisco, CA


PANEL: Overdose in the Criminal Justice SystemModerator: Demetrius McCord, Deputy Director, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY

Overdose Education and Naloxone Delivery in Local Detention Centers in Maryland

Kirsten Forseth, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, MDErin Haas, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, MD

Training Incarcerated Individuals Prior to Release and Equipping them with Naloxone Upon Release

Valerie White, AIDS Institute, New York, NYSharon Stancliff, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY

Overdose Prevention and Naloxone Distribution in Criminal Justice Settings: The NEXT Study

Lynn Wenger, RTI International, San Francisco, CA

Witnessed Overdoses and Naloxone Use Among Visitors to Rikers Island Trained in Overdose Prevention

Lara Maldjian, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY

Overdose Prevention within Law Enforcement and Incarceration Systems

Emilie Junge, Chicago Recovery Alliance, Chicago, ILGeoff Bathje, Adler University, Chicago, IL


PANEL: First ResponderModerator: Adam Butler, Harm Reduction Coalition

The Nevada Rural Opioid Overdose Reversal (NROOR) Project: Successes and Challenges in Implementing a HRSA-funded Naloxone Program

Karla Wagner, University of Nevada, Reno, NVChristopher Marchand, University of Nevada, Reno, NV

Widespread Distribution of Intranasal Naloxone: Findings from a Multi-Site Overdose Prevention Project in Norway

Desiree Madah-Amiri, Norwegian Centre for Addiction Research, Oslo, Norway

“O.D. Be Gone!” a.k.a. Naloxone and the Inner City Youth Experience in Vancouver, BC

Keren Mitchell, Inner City Youth Program, Providence Health Care, Vancouver, CanadaElise Durante, Inner City Youth Program, Providence Health Care, Vancouver, CanadaKatrina Pellatt, Inner City Youth Program, Providence Health Care, Vancouver, CanadaJane Buxton, Inner City Youth Program, Providence Health Care, Vancouver, Canada



PANEL: How to Save A Life: Starting Naloxone ProjectsModerator: Daniel Raymond, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY

How to Save a Life: Founding and Operating Utah’s First Opioid Overdose Death Prevention Program

Jennifer Plumb, Utah Naloxone, Salt Lake City, Utah

Bringing Naloxone to Your Agency Erica Ernst, Thresholds, Chicago, ILJames Kowalsky, Heartland Health Outreach, Chicago, IL

Naloxone Distribution in Drug Treatment – Addressing Financial, Logistical, and Ideological Barriers

Savannah O’Neill, HIV Education Prevention Project of Alameda County, Oakland, CAJasmin Canfield, HAART Oakland, Oakland, CA


WORKSHOP: Working with Active Drug Users: Substance Use Management in Groups, Individually, and with Their Families

Dee-Dee Stout, Dee-Dee Stout Consulting, CSU, Monterey Bay, Monterey, CAJeremy Prillwitz, Stonewall, San Francisco, CA


WORKSHOP: “User Friendly”: Rethinking Approaches to Substance Use with Youth

Aruna Krishnakumar, Hetrick-Martin Institute, New York, NY

LOCATION: SHORELINE

WORKSHOP: Hepatitis C Treatment: The Link Between Defeating Barriers and Receiving Treatment

Billy Garcia, Washington Heights CORNER Project, New York, NY


ROUNDTABLE: Red State Harm Reduction: Naloxone, Medical Amnesty, and Drug Policy in the Bible Belt

Jeremy Galloway, Families for Sensible Drug Policy and Southeast Harm Reduction Project, Dahlonega, GAMona Bennett, Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition, Atlanta, GAJeremy Sharp, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Washington D.C.


PANEL: Lessons Learned from Austin, IndianaEmma Roberts, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NYCarrie Lawrence, Project Cultivate/University of Indiana, Bloomington, INChris Abert, Indiana Recovery Alliance, Bloomington, INMatt LaRocco, Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness, Louisville, KYDonald Davis, Volunteers of America & Kentucky Harm Reduction Coalition, Louisville, KY

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM


PANEL: Between Researchers and Community: Harm Reduction ResearchModerator: Sheila Vakharia, Long Island University, New York, NY

Ethical Collaborations Between Researchers and Community Organizations Serving People Who Use Drugs

Peter Davidson, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA

A Good Doctor is Hard to Find: Assisted Injection Practices Among Those Who Inject Drugs

Sarah Brothers, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Social Listening for Harm Reduction Research Michael Gilbert, Epidemico, Boston, MALaurie Anderson, Epidemico, Boston, MA

A Socio-structural Approach to Preventing Injection Drug Use Initiation: Rationale for the Primer Study

Dan Werb, Division of Global Public Health, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA

Spatial Interventions and the Necessity of Entrenched Drug Scene Areas: A Case Study in Vancouver, Canada’s Downtown Eastside

Ryan McNeil, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada


PANEL: Sustaining Pre-Booking Diversion Programs and Engaging Sex Workers

Sustainable Financing for Pre-Booking Diversion Programs

Elizabeth Kinnard, Community Catalyst, Boston, MADaniel Raymond, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NYRobert Childs, NC Harm Reduction Coalition, Wilmington, NCShelly Moeller, Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion, Santa Fe, NM

Using Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) to Address Sex Work

Magalie Lerman, SWOP USA, Washington D.C.Kris Nyrop, LEAD National Support Bureau, Seattle, WAJames Sizemore, NCHRC, North CarolinaNina Marsoopian, Project SAFE, Pennsylvania

LOCATION: MARINA 3

WORKSHOP: Creative Arts in Harm Reduction Treatment

Claudia Figallo, Larkin Street Youth Services, San Francisco, CA


LOCATION: MARINA 5

ROUNDTABLE: Duct Tape, Low-Tech Systems, and Freeware: Skill-Sharing How to Do Activism on a Micro-Budget

Katherine Koster, Sex Workers Outreach Project, Walnut, CADerek Demeri, New Jersey Red Umbrella Alliance/SWOP-USA, New JerseyBella Robinson, COYOTE Rhode Island, Providence, RI


PANEL: Ask Mom How to Save a Life: Parents Taking a Lead Position to Prevent Overdose Deaths

Gretchen Burns Bergman, Moms United to End War on Drugs/A New PATH, Spring Valley, CADenise Cullen, Broken No More, Orange, CAApril Ella, A New PATH, Spring Valley, CAElon Burns, San Diego Coastal Sober Living, San Diego, CACaroline Stewart, Caroline Stewart and Associates, San Diego, CAPeter Davidson, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA


PANEL: Gimme Shelter: Homelessness and Drug UseModerator: Paul Harkin, Glide Foundation, San Francisco, CA

Drug Use, Homelessness, and Stigma: San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Drug User Health Initiative as a Response to the Changing City Landscape

Katie Burk, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CAJose Luis Guzman, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA

Evicting the Mental Health Crisis in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside: A Qualitative Study of the Impacts of Evictions on People Who Use Drugs

William Damon, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada

How Low Can You Go? Minimizing Barriers and Maximizing Inclusion in the Shelter Setting

Brittany Stallings, Interfaith Works Emergency Overnight Shelter, Olympia, WA


PANEL: Expanding NaloxoneModerator: Mark Kinzly, TX Opioid Narcan Initiative, Austin, TX

Issues in Initiating or Expanding Effective Opioid Overdose Prevention Work

Dan Bigg, Chicago Recovery Alliance, Chicago, ILMaya Doe-Simkins, MDSC/Harm Reduction Michigan, Maple City, MIEliza Wheeler, Harm Reduction Coalition, Oakland, CA

Naloxone at the Crossroads of North and South: Advocating for Access and Piloting Programs in North Carolina, Washington, D.C., Rural Maryland, and D.C.’s Maryland Suburbs

Andrew Bell, HIPS, Washington D.C.

New Mexico Naloxone Access: New Statutes to Increase Distribution by Non-Clinicians

Dominick Zurlo, New Mexico Department of Health, Santa Fe, NM

Enhanced Naloxone Distribution in Six New York City Target Neighborhoods

Monique Wright, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY

The Naloxone Buffet Phillip Fiuty, Santa Fe Mountain Center, Tesuque, New MexicoDave Koppa, Santa Fe Mountain Center, Tesuque, New Mexico


WORKSHOP: Updates in Harm Reduction Addiction Medicine

Barry Zevin, San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team, San Francisco, CA


WORKSHOP: Using a Trauma-informed Harm Reduction Approach to Work with Young Men of Color

Sebastien Vante, Safe Horizon–Street Work Project, New York, NYTimothy Hunt, Safe Horizon–Street Work Project, New York, NY


ROUNDTABLE: Cutting-edge Harm Reduction at the Local Level

Kaitlyn Boecker, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY

LOCATION: SEABREEZE

PANEL: Harm Reduction VisionariesModerator: Christopher Collazo, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY

ResPire Project: Impact and Challenges of Harm Reduction in Party Contexts in Brazil

Isobela Umbuzeiro Valent, Centro de Convivência É de Lei, São Paulo, BrazilMarina dos Passos Sant'Anna, Centro de Convivência É de Lei, São Paulo, Brazil

DanceSafe Visionaries: A New Approach to Harm Reduction Outreach

Kristin Karas, DanceSafe, New York, NY

LOCATION: SHORELINE

WORKSHOP: Start Close In Thomas Smith, Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center, New York, NY


12:45 PM–2:00 PM

LUNCH (ON YOUR OWN)

2:15 PM – 3:45 PM


PANEL: Fentanyl: A More Dangerous “Heroin”: Emerging Patterns in the Heroin Overdose Epidemic

Dan Ciccarone, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CAJeff Ondocsin, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CASarah Mars, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA


PANEL: Chasing the Police: Training and Working with the PoliceModerator: Franklin Taveras, Harm Reduction Coalition

Police Education Program to Improve the Implementation of Harm Reduction Policy at the US-Mexico Border

Leo Beletsky, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA

Reclaiming Our Right to the City: Combatting Police Violence and Health Exclusions through Participatory and Artistic Strategies in Bogotá, Colombia

Catalina Correa, Parces Ong, Bogotá, Colombia

Chasing the Cops: Strategies for Follow-up Interviews with Active-Duty Police Officers from Proyecto Escudo in Tijuana, Mexico

Erika Clairgue, University of California at San Diego, Division of Global Public Health, Tijuana, Mexico

LOCATION: MARINA 3

WORKSHOP: Running Harm Reduction Introductory Psychoeducational Groups

Cynthia Hoffman, Independent, San Francisco, CA

LOCATION: MARINA 5

ROUNDTABLE: From Good Samaritan Laws to Criminal Record Relief to Immunity: Brainstorming Ways to Increase Our Impact with Multi-issue Advocacy

Katherine Koster, Sex Workers Outreach Project, San Francisco, CA


PANEL: The Participant ExperienceModerator: T Steve Jones

Peer Delivery Model for Naloxone Distribution and Increasing Opioid Safety Knowledge among Veterans: Preliminary Results of a Longitudinal Cohort Study in New York City

Alex Bennett, National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI), New York, NY

Take Home Naloxone Program Participants’ Perspectives and Program Evaluation Regarding Contacting Emergency Services During an Overdose Event

Jane Buxton, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada

Experiences of Opiate Overdose in Puerto Rico: PWIDs Readiness to Intervene and the Need for Overdose Prevention Training and Naloxone Distribution

Debora Upegui-Hernandez, Intercambios Puerto Rico, Fajardo, Puerto Rico

Harnessing the Expertise of Peer Educators in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Megan Stapleton, New South Wales Users and AIDS Association, Sydney, Australia


PANEL: Sex Work at the BordersModerator: Sarah Weir, Harm Reduction Coalition

Women Who Inject Drugs and Sex Work on the Northwestern Border Of Mexico: Epidemiological Analysis to Harm Reduction

Said Slim Pasaran, Integración Social, Verter A.C., Mexicali, Mexico

Violence in the Work Place and Substance Use Among Migrant Female Sex Workers at the Mexico-Guatemala border

Teresita Rocha Jimenez, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA


PANEL: Curbing OverdoseModerator: William Matthews, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY

Curbing Opioid Overdose using Programmatic and Geo-spatial Data

Kate Lena, AHOPE Needle Exchange Program Boston Public Health Commission, Boston, MA

Expanded Overdose Prevention Services with Naloxone in Michigan as an Instigator for Improved Access to Harm Reduction Services

Steve Alsum, The Grand Rapids Red Project, Grand Rapids, MI

Overdose Fatality Review Program Development and Results

Erin Haas, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, MD



WORKSHOP: Cultural Competency for Providing Harm Reduction Services to LGBTQ Communities

Grace Lee, Independent, Los Angeles, CACatherine Swanson, Independent, Los Angeles, CA


WORKSHOP: Keeping the Melting Pot from Boiling Over: Using Harm-Reduction and Restorative Justice to Create Safe Spaces for Diverse Clients in a Low Barrier Drop-In Center

Andrew Bell, HIPS, Washington D.C.Kenney Mayo, HIPS, Washington D.C.Elizabeth MacIntosh, HIPS, Washington D.C.

LOCATION: SHORELINE

WORKSHOP: It’s Not Just About Drugs: Applying Harm Reduction to Mental Health Concerns

James Kowalsky, Heartland Health Outreach, Chicago, ILValery Shuman, Heartland Health Outreach, Chicago, ILErica Ernst, Thresholds, Chicago, IL


ROUNDTABLE: Resisting Paternalism: Using Harm Reduction to Truly Engage Self-Determination

Holly Scaglione, Humboldt Institute for Harm Reduction, Department of Social Work, Humboldt State University, Humboldt, CAYvonne Doble, Humboldt State University, Humboldt, CA

LOCATION: SEABREEZE

A Town Hall Listening Session with the CDC: What Should the CDC Response to the Opioid Crisis Look Like?Moderator: Daniel Raymond, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY

John Brooks, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Atlanta, GAEyasu Teshale, Division of Viral Hepatitis, Atlanta, GAAlice Asher, Division of Viral Hepatitis, Atlanta, GARenata Ellington, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Atlanta, GA

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM


PANEL: Wound CareModerator: Adam Butler, Harm Reduction Coalition

Integrating Community-based Wound Care into Syringe Exchange Services Syringe Access

Heather Lusk, CHOW Project, Honolulu, HILeilani Maxera, CHOW Project, Honolulu, HI

Prevalence and Correlates of Abscess in Young Adults Who Inject Drugs

Alice Asher, Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA


PANEL: Drug Courts: Do They Reduce the Harms of Drug Use and Drug Laws or Exacerbate Them?

Jasmine Tyler, Open Society Foundations, New York, NY

LOCATION: MARINA 3

WORKSHOP: Redefining Recovery: Connecting Harm Reduction and Recovery


LOCATION: MARINA 5

ROUNDTABLE: Volunteers, Collectives, and Outlaws: Supporting Informal Harm Reduction in a Period of Partial Mainstreaming

David Showalter, Needle Exchange Emergency Distribution (NEED), Berkeley, CA


WORKSHOP: Advanced Clinical Skills in Harm Reduction Psychotherapy (HRP)

Patt Denning, Center for Harm Reduction Therapy, San Francisco, CAJeanne Little, Center for Harm Reduction Therapy, Oakland, CA


PANEL: Eliminating Hepatitis C in San Francisco: Collective Impact, Social Justice, and Public Health

Katie Burk, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CAIsaac Jackson, Urban Survivors Union, San Francisco, CAKelly Eagen, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CAEmalie Huriaux, Project Inform, San Francisco, CAPaul Harkin, Glide Foundation, San Francisco, CA



PANEL: Emerging Models for HIV, Viral Hepatitis Prevention, and Harm Reduction in the Era of Health Care Reform (Part II of II)

Rachel McLean, California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, CALibby Guthrie, Mendocino County AIDS/Viral Hepatitis Network, Ukiah, CALoris Mattox, HIV Education and Prevention Project of Alameda County, Oakland, CACyndee Clay, HIPS, Washington, D.C.Ricky Bluthenthal, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CAShoshanna Scholar, LA Community Health Project, Los Angeles, CA


WORKSHOP: Just Say Know: The Power of Peer Education

Frances Fu, Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), Washington D.C.Vilmarie Narloch, Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), Washington, D.C.


Supervised Injection Services Advocacy Network (SISAN) Meeting

Matt Curtis, VOCAL New York, New York, NY

LOCATION: SHORELINE

WORKSHOP: Sex and Drugs Are Great Together: Building Critical Alliances between Sex Worker and Drug User Activists

Magalie Lerman, NASTAD, Washington, D.C.


ROUNDTABLE: Strange Bedfellows: Using Harm Reduction Principles and Practices in Abstinence-Based Treatment Programs

Kris Oseth, Whitman Walker Health, Washington, D.C.

5:45 PM – 7:15 PM

LOCATION: SEABREEZE

WORKSHOP: A Harm Reduction Needs Assessment Methodology Workshop

Russell Barbour, Yale School of Medicine, Public Health, New Haven, CTLauretta Grau, CIRA/ Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CTJoshua Livernois, Northern Nevada Hopes, Reno, NVThomas Stopka, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MARobert Heimer, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT


PANEL: OverdoseModerator: Allan Clear, NYSDOH/AIDS Institute, New York, NY

Overdose and Naloxone Use Among Opioid Overdose Prevention Trainees in New York City: Results from a Longitudinal Cohort Study of Community-based Overdose Prevention

Laura Maldjian, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY

Opioid Overdose and Naloxone Distribution in San Francisco: From Epidemiology to Intervention Development to Implementation

Alex Kral, RTI International, San Francisco, CA

Perceptions and Behaviors Related to Overdose and Naloxone Among Opioid Users at Risk for Overdose

Janelle Silvis, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA


PANEL: Treatment and BeyondModerator: Sharon Stancliff

Methadone and Opioid Substitute Treatment in the US and Worldwide

Kenneth Anderson, Harm Reduction for Alcohol (HAMS), New York, NY

Integrating Harm Reduction in Abstinence-Based Residential Addiction Treatment

Sean House, APEX Recovery, La Mesa, CA

Pathways to Recovery and Health: Peer-to-Peer Victoria Abad, BOOM!Health, New York, NYMaria Caban, BOOM!Health, New York, NYWilfred Rodriguez, BOOM!Health, New York, NY

Mixing It Up! Expanding Membership in Substance Use Disorders Treatment Groups

Lesley Warner, Puget Sound VA Medical Center, Seattle Division, Seattle, WAJosie Tracy, Puget Sound VA Medical Center, Seattle Division, Seattle, WA

Stabilization, Treatment, and Engagement Program (STEP): Implementing a Suboxone Drug Treatment Program in the Heart of Kensington

Clayton Ruley, Prevention Point Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

New Avenues: A Qualitative Evaluation of a Harm Reduction Group for Women Veterans

Josie Tracy, Puget Sound VA Medical Center, Seattle Division, Seattle, WA


LOCATION: MARINA 3

WORKSHOP: ARTES: Access, Reintegration, Therapy, Education, and Self in Tijuana, Mexico

Meredith Meacham, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CAMaria Luisa Mittal, University of California at San Diego/Universidad Xochicalco, San Diego, CAEllen Kozalka, University of San Diego, San Diego, CAGaeta Rivera, Andrés Centro de Servicios SER A.C., Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico


PANEL: Working with Young People Moderator: Demetrius McCord, Harm Reduction Coalition

Access to Substance Use Treatment Among Young Adults Who Use Prescription Opioids Non-Medically

Elliot Liebling, Brown University, Providence, RIBrandon Marshall, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI

Above/Below: Trauma, Transience, and Survival Kacey Byczek, Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center, New York, NY

Harm Reduction and Mental Health: Approaches to Working with Transition Age Youth

Joseph Bonnell, Outside In, Portland, OR


PANEL: CAMBIE. Primer Programa de Reducción de Daños en Colombia. Más Allá de las Jeringas

Julian Quintero, Corporacion ATS Acción Técnica Social, Bogota, Colombia


PANEL: Photography and Its Role within Harm Reduction

Nigel Brunsdon, Injecting Advice, London, United KingdomMary Howe, Homeless Youth Alliance, San Francisco, CASuzanne Carlberg-Racich, Chicago Recovery Alliance, Chicago, ILMatt Curtis, VOCAL New York, New York, NY


PANEL: Harm Reduction in the Black CommunityMorgan Humphrey, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY

LOCATION: MARINA 5

ROUNDTABLE: Making Room at the Table: Drug User Unions at Work

Louise Vincent, Urban Survivor’s Union, Greensboro, NC


WORKSHOP: Responding to K2/Spice with a Dedicated Harm Reduction Approach

Jessica Nagel, Community Access, New York, NY

LOCATION: SHORELINE

WORKSHOP: Building Harm Reduction Workshops in Prisons using Popular Education

Stephanie Massey, PASAN, Toronto, Canada


California Networking MeetingEmalie Huriux, Project Inform, San Francisco, CA

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

ART*GEEK*LOVE, SPECIAL CLOSING EVENT WITH SPOKEN WORD OPEN MIC One-day pop-up art show from 10:00 AM–8:00 PM:Special Closing from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM; Spoken Word Open Mic (3 min. per person). Limited slots! Sign-ups start at 6:00 PM. Spoken word begins at 6:30 PM.

7:30 PM – 9:30 PM


Treatment Professionals Town Hall MeetingAndrew Tatarsky, Center for Optimal Living, New York, NYJeanne Little, Center for Harm Reduction Therapy, Oakland, CAPatt Denning, The Center for Harm Reduction Therapy, Oakland, CA

9:00 PM – 12:00 Midnight

LOCATION: HARBOR ISLAND 2

DANCE PARTY Relax and dance the night away!


SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 69:30 AM – 11:00 AM


PANEL: Syringe Exchanges and the “New Heroin Epidemic”

Kiefer Paterson, AIDS United, Washington, D.C. Magalie Lerman, NASTAD, Washington, D.C.


PANEL: Global Developments in Harm Reduction Therapy/Substance Use Treatment

Andrew Tatarsky, Center for Optimal Living, New York, New YorkMichael Pond, Author, Wasted: An Alcoholic Therapist’s Fight for Recovery in a Flawed Treatment System, Vancouver, CanadaPat Denning, Center for Harm Reduction Therapy, Oakland, CAInez Feria, NoBox Transitions Foundation Inc., Manila, PhilippinesClare S. Wilkins, Director, Pangea Biomedics; Board of Directors, Global Ibogaine Therapy Alliance (GITA), Jalisco, MexicoDala Fakhredine, Skoun Lebanese Addictions Center, Beirut, Lebanon


PANEL: Messages from TijuanaModerator: Joanna Berton-Martinez, Harm Reduction Coalition

Involuntary Drug Treatment Narratives Among People Who Inject Drugs in Tijuana Mexico

Claudia Rafful, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CAMaria Elena Medina-Mora, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

Tijuana No Longer the “Most Visited City” but the “City of the Despair”: El Cuete and the Wound Clinic, a Joint Effort to Improve the Living Conditions of PWID

Patricia Gonzalez-Zuniga, University of California at San Diego, La Casa del Centro, Wound Clinic, San Diego, CA

Assessing Economic Barriers to Access and Determining the Cost of Opiate Substitution Therapy and Syringe Exchange Program Provision in Tijuana, Mexico

Natasha Martin, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CAJose Luis Burgos, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CASteffanie Strathdee, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CAJames Kahn, Emilio Meza, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CAJavier Cepeda, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA

La Privación del Derecho a la Maternidad en Mujeres que se Inyectan Drogas en Baja California, México

María de Lourdes Angulo Corral, Integración Social Verter A.C., Mexicali, México


PANEL: Implementing Trauma-informed Care for Co-occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use

Erica Ernst, Thresholds, Chicago, IL

11:15 AM – 12:30 PM

LOCATION: GRANDE BALLROOM A/B

CLOSING PLENARY 1st Annual Imani P. Woods Award Ceremony


THURSDAY NOV. 3 2:15 PM – 5:15 PM 2:15 PM Everywhere but Safe: Public Injecting in New York (34:07) + 20 min Q&A

3:15 PM Fight HIV, Not Drug Users! (24:36)

3:45 PM Break

4:00 PM SALOME: Heroin Assisted Treatment project (9:25) + 20 min Q&A

4:30 PM Magnus: A Spring Day (17:59)

4:50 PM Trip to Earth, Report on How Human Beings Deal with Drugs (5:48)

5:00 PM Empowering the People (4:22)

LEADing a new direction (3:50)

Transcend the hate (3:00)

Film Festival Abstracts (In Order of Appearance) Everywhere but Safe: Public Injecting in New York Everywhere But Safe is a documentary film that examines public injection drug use in New York and charts a path toward healthier and safer communities. Filmed in New York City, Albany, Schenectady, and rural Columbia County, the film includes perspectives from people who inject drugs, public health experts, and government officials.LENGTH: 34 MINUTESLANGUAGE: ENGLISH DIRECTORS: MATT CURTIS, TAEKO FROSTPRESENTER: MATT CURTIS, TAEKO FROSTFACEBOOK: EverywhereButSafeWEB PAGE: EverywhereButSafe.org

Fight HIV, Not Drug Users!Fight HIV, not Drug Users is about severe rights violations committed against people who use drugs in Manipur. In this movie, people who use drugs talk honestly and bravely about how police round them up in street raids, and publicize their personal data in newspapers, how they extort all the money they have, how they beat them up or shoot them, and how local clubs and the mob carry out reprisals against them and their houses.

Manipur, a small state in North East India, on the border with Myanmar, with a population of 2.8 million, has an estimated 40,855 people infected with HIV. According to some independent estimates, there are more than 75,000 PWUD in

Manipur. In some parts of Manipur, 92% of injecting drug-users are coinfected with HIV and hepatitis C. The HIV prevalence rate among people who use drugs in Manipur is one of the highest in the world.LENGTH: 25 MINUTESLANGUAGE: MANIPURI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLESPRODUCER: DHOJO WAHENGBAMFACEBOOK: dhojowWEB PAGE: hiv-network.com

SALOME: Heroin Assisted Treatment project (9:25) + 20 MIN Q&AThe SALOME documentary explains the benefits of Injectable Opioid Assisted Treatment through the lens of the participants in the SALOME clinical trial in Vancouver.LENGTH: 10 MINUTESLANGUAGE: ENGLISHDIRECTOR: COLIN ASKEYPRODUCER: KURT LOCKPRESENTERS: COLIN ASKEY AND KURT LOCK

Magnus: A Spring Day In Magnus: A Spring Day we join Magnus Lilleberg on an intimate journey into his everyday life as a heroin addict in the capital of Norway. He films himself with his hand-held camera and he describes a tough reality without demanding compassion in return.LENGTH: 18 MINUTESLANGUAGE: NORWEGIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES PRODUCER: CHRISTOFFER NÆSSFACEBOOK: MuninFilm

FILM FESTIVAL

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Join us for the fifth Harm Reduction Film Festival, which includes three days of shorts and feature-length films. Films shown are from all over the world, with a special focus on North America. This year's films come from Canada, Argentina, Columbia, Indonesia, Crimea, Australia, and Slovakia, in addition to the US. A wealth of diverse topics are covered, from the ethics of mephedrone, human rights, daily life of people who use drugs around the world, supervised injection, heroin-assisted therapy, harm reduction at festivals, alternatives ways of smoking tobacco, a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS), and even an animated film about the drug laws we enforce on ourselves shot from the perspective of a visiting alien. Some filmmakers will be speaking in conjunction with the screenings. Please check the main schedule.


Trip to Earth, Report on How Human Beings Deal with DrugsTrip to Earth, Report on How Human Beings Deal With Drugs is an animation about an alien studying the planet Earth and his research on how humans deal with some inanimate objects, called DRUGS. He comes to Argentina because he was informed that there the humans have a particular way of facing the issue and of trying to solve it with laws, social and health problems (which is not unlike most places).LENGTH: 6 MINUTESLANGUAGE: SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLESDIRECTOR: SILVIA INCHAURRAGAFACEBOOK: INFOARDA

Empowering the PeopleEmpowering The People shows how drug users are often marginalized from formal health care delivery institutions and from making their own health decisions. But, with community-based organizations at the forefront of providing naloxone, drug users can access it; a miracle drug, that does more than save people's lives. This video features Carl Hart, Louise Vincent, Robert Childs and Helen, a mother whose son is addicted to heroin.LENGTH: 4 MINUTESLANGUAGE: ENGLISH DIRECTOR: HYUN NAMKOONGWEB PAGE: nchrc.org

LEADing a new directionThis video features the work of Santa Fe, New Mexico's Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program. Santa Fe's LEAD program has improved relationships between law enforcement and drug users. LEAD programs challenge police to consider multidisciplinary and comprehensive approaches to providing assistance and stability rather than incarceration to communities of people who use drugs. LENGTH: 5 MINUTESLANGUAGE: ENGLISHDIRECTOR: HYUN NAMKOONGWEB PAGE: nchrc.org

Transcend the hate In 2016, the North Carolina (NC) General Assembly passed legislation in the dark of the night legalizing outright discrimination against people who are transgender. The undemocratic process through which the policy was enacted in addition to its multiple provisions that restrict workers' rights to challenge unlawful termination due to race or sex have reversed decades of progress made in NC and now threatens to do so in other states. Members of a harm reduction support group for people who are trans discuss the political ramifications of HB2 and solutions for creating an environment in which people recognize that discrimination is always wrongLENGTH: 3 MINUTESLANGUAGE: ENGLISHDIRECTOR: HYUN NAMKOONG

FRIDAY NOV. 4 12:45 PM – 6:00 PM

12:45 PM A Billion Lives (95:00) + 20 min Q&A

2:45 PM SAOL Project Ltd. (19:19) + 20 min Skype Q&A

3:30 PM Peace & Coca (trilogy) (15:00)

3:45 PM Break

4:00 PM Bass Coast Project PSA’s (5:17) + 20 min Q&A

4:30 PM Support. Don’t Punish.:

Voices for Drug Policy Reform from Asia (29:40)

A Broad Consensus? It’s Time for Change–Support. Don’t Punish (3:55)

5:05 PM Crimean Deadlock (13:16)

5:20 PM The Change Project:

A Global Perspective (6:39)

Patient Perspective (7:21)

5:35 PM Drugs: Common Problems, Common Solutions in Slovakia (8:53)

5:45 PM Dr. Zee – The Man Who Discovered Mephedrone (17:05)


Film Festival Abstracts (In Order of Appearance)

A Billion Lives A billion people may die this century from smoking. Why are safer alternatives being banned? Money, pride, and one of the most fascinating alliances in history.LENGTH: 95 MINUTESLANGUAGE: ENGLISHDIRECTOR: AARON BIEBERT PRESENTER: AARON BIEBERT FACEBOOK: ABillionLivesWEB PAGE: ABillionLives.comTWITTER: @ABillionLives

SAOL Project Ltd. Saol Project Ltd is a film about women, who reflect on managing daily challenges of life without street drugs and the on-going harm reduction needed to manage this change LENGTH: 19 MINUTESLANGUAGE: ENGLISHPRODUCER: GARY BRODERICKPRESENTER: SKYPE WITH GARY BRODERICK AND WOME FROM THE PROJECTWEB PAGE: saolproject.ieTWITTER: @saolproject

Peace & Coca (trilogy) Peace & Coca is a first-person documentation of the negative consequences current drug policies have on the livelihood of peasant coca farmers in Colombia.LENGTH: 15 MINUTESLANGUAGE: SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLESDIRECTOR: XENIA GRUBSTEINWEB PAGE: kosmi4eski

Bass Coast Project PSA's Bass Coast Music Festival is an annual 3 day long music and arts festival, with a strong peer based harm reduction model built into the event. This year we used DJs and other local talent to drive home messages about safety and self care in the Electronic Dance Music Scene in these 5 short modern takes on the traditional PSA.LENGTH: 5 MINUTESLANGUAGE: ENGLISHPRODUCER: STACEY FORRESTERCOMMUNICATIONS MANAGER: PAUL BROOKS PRESENTER: STACEY FORRESTER AND PAUL BROOKS WEB PAGE: basscoast.ca/harm-reduction/TWITTER: @BassCoastFESTIVAL

Voices for Drug Policy Reform from Asia–Support. Don't Punish.Voices for Drug Policy Reform from Asia is a film about people working in law enforcement, treatment, harm reduction and social services call to end repression against people who use drugs in AsiaLENGTH: 30 MINUTESLANGUAGE: BURMESE, THAI, INDONESIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLESPRODUCER: INTERNATIONAL DRUG POLICY CONSORTIUMWEB PAGE: idpc.net/

A Broad Consensus? It's Time for Change–Support. Don't Punish In A Broad Consensus? It’s Time for Change, one can see how at the largest UN drugs summit (UNGASS 2016, New York) governments failed again to keep up with the "global consensus" of the elimination of drugs through punishment and repression. The video sheds light on member states’ positions on topics such as decriminalization, death penalty, harm reduction, and more…LENGTH: 4 MINUTESLANGUAGE: ENGLISHPRODUCER: LEO KISS

Crimean DeadlockCrimean Deadlock is a film concerning the ban of methadone therapy when Russia invaded Crimea. Before that there was 806 clients in methadone programs. How many former clients are still alive no one can say. LENGTH: 13 MINUTESLANGUAGE: RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLESCO-PRODUCER: IGOR KUZMENKO

A Global PerspectiveA Global Perspective looks at the various community initiatives currently in place across the globe, working towards testing and treatment of hepatitis C patients.LENGTH: 7 MINUTESLANGUAGE:PRODUCER: NIKKI CAVENAGHFACEBOOK: hepcchangeprojectWEB PAGE: inhsu.comPatient Perspective Patient Perspective is a film about three patients from three different countries who reflect on their hepatitis C treatment and how it has changed and advanced in the last 15 years.LENGTH: 7 MINUTESEDITOR/DOP: BRIANNA COOKFACEBOOK: hepcchangeprojectWEB PAGE: inhsu.com

Drugs: Common Problems, Common Solutions in Slovakia Drugs: Common Problems, Common Solutions in Slovakia is a film about Slovakia where only a small proportion of injecting drug users have access to low-threshold services. As an indication, according to the most recent (2008) prevalence data, there are between 8,200 and 33,500 people who use drugs heavily, mostly using methamphetamine and heroin. In 2013, there were 2,252 clients registered with local harm-reduction NGOs. In Slovakia, the availability of syringe exchange programs is very limited – there are two outreach programs in Bratislava, the capital, with one NGO operating in each of three towns (Trnava, Nitra, Sereď) and one providing services in the city of Košice. The central region of the country remains without a single syringe exchange program. Slovakia needs to find a common solution to guarantee harm reduction for all in need–argues a local


harm reduction provider, Odyseus, in a video produced jointly with Drugreporter.LENGTH: 9 MINUTESLANGUAGE: SLOVAK WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLESDIRECTOR: ISTVAN GABOR TAKACSFACEBOOK: drugreporterWEB PAGE: drugreporter.netTWITTER: @rrfdrugreporter

Dr. Zee – The Man Who Discovered Mephedrone Dr. Zee—The Man Who Discovered Mephedrone is a film about Mephedrone (or as chemists call it, 4-methylmethcathinone) which is a stimulant drug. It was first synthetised in 1929, but did not become known to the wider public until it was rediscovered in 2003 by a man who calls himself Dr. Zee. Is he the “Crazy Chemist” depicted in government-led anti-drug campaigns, using young people as lab rats for testing his substances? Why is he experimenting with unknown substances? Was it his intention to sell these drugs to millions of young people? Does he feel guilty for the harms caused by mephedrone, the deaths, the suffering? The Drugreporter video team met him in New Zealand in March this year, and took the opportunity to carry out an exclusive interview with him and ask these questions. Our aim was neither to judge nor to justify him–just to show the man behind the discovery of mephedrone.LENGTH: 17 MINUTESLANGUAGE: ENGLISHCAMERA PERSON/EDITOR: ISTVAN GABOR TAKACSFACEBOOK: drugreporterWEB PAGE: drugreporter.netTWITTER: @rrfdrugreporter

SATURDAY. NOV. 5 12:45 PM – 6:00 PM

12:45 PM The InSite Story (8:18) + 20 min Q&A

1:15 PM Wasted (43:31)

2:00 PM Abandominium (35:00)

2:40 PM Rights Reporter Foundation:

DYING A SLOW DEATH: Inside Indonesia’s Drug War (23:34)

The UNGASS on Drugs: Reform Aborted (9:33)

The Hazy Dawn of the Harm Reduction Decade (9:18)

Harm Reduction: Stuck in the Transit Zone (13:25)

3:45 PM Break

4:00 PM Rights Reporter Foundation:

A DAY–In the Life of People Who Use Drugs Under Prohibition (90:00) + 20 min Q&A

Film Festival Abstracts (In Order of Appearance)

The InSite Story The InSite Story is a short documentary about the struggle to create and keep InSite, North America's first supervised injection site.LENGTH: 8 MINUTESLANGUAGE: ENGLISHDIRECTOR: COLIN ASKEYPRESENTER: COLIN ASKEY

WastedWasted is a film on the revolution in addiction research that offers hope to people whose lives and families are Wasted by addiction.LENGTH: 44 MINUTESLANGUAGE: ENGLISHDIRECTOR: MAUREEN PALMERFACEBOOK: BountifulFilmsWEB PAGE: bountiful.ca

Abandominium Adandominium is an observational ethnographic film that chronicles the lives of five heroin injectors who live together in an abandoned apartment building on the west side of Chicago. The film follows Steve and Pam, the heroin-dependent married couple who run the house, and their heroin-using housemates—Ida, John, and Spider—as they forge the best possible existence in the face of tall odds against them. This film explores and dissects an essential property of street-based heroin user culture: antagonistic communalism.LENGTH: 35 MINUTESLANGUAGE: ENGLISHDIRECTOR: GREG SCOTTWEB PAGE: sawbuckproductions.orgTWITTER: @2thirty

DYING A SLOW DEATH: Inside Indonesia's Drug WarDYING A SLOW DEATH: Inside Indonesia’s Drug War is a short documentary film produced by the Indonesian Drug Users Network (PKNI) and the Drugreporter, documenting the first-hand impacts of the drug war as experienced by the community itself. The documentary features testimony and interviews with people who use drugs, methadone patients, academics, and religious leaders, and was filmed and conceived by local drug user community activists. LENGTH: 24 MINUTESLANGUAGE: BAHASADIRECTOR: ISTVAN GABOR TAKACSFACEBOOK: drugreporterWEB PAGE: drugreporter.netTWITTER: @rrfdrugreporter


The UNGASS on Drugs: Reform AbortedThe UNGASS on Drugs: Reform Aborted is a short video report on the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs, held in New York 2016. After a long gestation, the UN drug reform experiment suffered a miscarriage. It seems the UN is not the catalyst of change but its mirror. Reformers can learn many lessons–but can also be proud of their achievements. LENGTH: 10 MINUTESLANGUAGE: ENGLISHCAMERA PERSON/EDITOR: ISTVAN GABOR TAKACSFACEBOOK: drugreporterWEB PAGE: drugreporter.netTWITTER: @rrfdrugreporter

The Hazy Dawn of the Harm Reduction Decade LENGTH: 9 MINUTESLANGUAGE: ENGLISHCO-DIRECTOR: ISTVAN GABOR TAKACSFACEBOOK: drugreporterWEB PAGE: drugreporter.netTWITTER: @rrfdrugreporter

Harm Reduction: Stuck in the Transit ZoneHarm Reduction: Stuck in the Transit Zone is a short film about The Drugreporter video team attending and filming the International Harm Reduction Conference to learn about the new trends in harm reduction.LENGTH: 13 MINUTESLANGUAGE: ENGLISHCAMERA PERSON/EDITOR: ISTVAN GABOR TAKACSFACEBOOK: drugreporterWEB PAGE: drugreporter.netTWITTER: @rrfdrugreporter

A DAY–In the Life of People Who Use Drugs Under Prohibition A Day–In The Life of People Who Use Drugs Under Prohibition is a documentary movie produced in seven cities around the world by Rights Reporter Foundation and the International Network of People Who use Drugs. The film highlights how the lives of people who use drugs are affected by the global war on drugs, showing individual stories through the course of one day on earth. LENGTH: 90 MINUTESLANGUAGE: ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, HUNGARIAN, SPANISH, BAHASA, NIGERIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLESDIRECTOR: ISTVAN GABOR TAKACSPRESENTER: MATT CURTIS, TAEKO FROST AND VOCAL PARTICIPANTSFACEBOOK: drugreporterWEB PAGE: drugreporter.netTWITTER: @rrfdrugreporter

Film Festival CuratorsShannon RileyShannon’s background is in nursing, with her favorite jobs being Clinic Manager of the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center in San Francisco CA and nursing at Insite, the supervised injection facility in Vancouver, BC. She just completed her Master’s in Public Policy at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, where she focused her final research on how to prevent opioid overdose in supportive housing facilities. She now works for Vancouver Coastal Health, Project managing their response to the provincial opioid overdose emergency that was declared in April 2016 in BC. Shannon has organized the Harm Reduction Film Festivals at HRC’s National Conferences in Oakland, CA (2006), Austin, TX (2010), Portland, OR (2012), and Baltimore (2014).

Jennifer FernándezJennifer is a licensed clinical psychologist from San Francisco, CA. Her private practice specializes in harm reduction psychotherapy for adults, adolescents, and their families. She is passionate about responsible drug use and believes education is the best form of addiction prevention. Her work includes workshops for festival attendees, community members, and professionals. She also facilitates integration after psychedelic experiences and is interested in the role psychedelics can play in augmenting psychotherapy. You can learn more about her work at jenniferfernandezphd.com

Molly AnggoMolly’s background is in international relations and public health. She became interested in harm reduction while working as a program manager at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne, Australia. Since completing a master of public health focusing on international health and harm reduction Molly has been working as a mental health worker at Insite supervised injection site in Vancouver, Canada


EVERY DAY, ALL DAY

LOCATION: PAVILION

StoryCorps (Pre-registration Required)StoryCorps is a national nonprofit and oral history project that gives people the chance to interview friends and loved ones about their lives. These conversations are archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, allowing participants to leave a legacy for future generations. StoryCorps believes that every story matters, and that our stories deserve to be told, and remembered, in our own voices. For more information visit storycorps.org

THURSDAY, NOV. 3, 2016

8:00 AM–9:00 AM Yoga (Wellness)

8:00 AM–9:00 AM Narcotics Anonymous (Affinity)

1:00 PM–2:00 PM Poster Presentations

1:00 PM–2:00 PM Drop-in Meditation (Wellness)

2:15 PM–3:45 PM Your Peak Experience in Harm Reduction: Finding the Words (Creativity)

4:00 PM–5:00 PM Yoga (Wellness)

4:00–5:00 PM GRASP Support Group (Affinity)

1:00 PM–2:00 PMPoster Presentations

Grave Human Rights Violations at Profit-orientated Force Detention, Drugs Detoxifications and Rehabilitations Centres in Nepal: Personal Testimonies of PWIDSanju Paudel, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal

Violence, Trauma, and Living with HIV: Longitudinal Predictors of Initiating Crystal Methamphetamine Injection among Sex WorkersElena Argento, Gender & Sexual Health Initiative, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV, Vancouver,

CanadaImprove the Quality and Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care, and Support Services for PWIDs through NSP ProgramsAbdalla Badhrus, Muslim Education and Welfare Association (MEWA), Mombasa, Kenya

Challenging the Ideological Dominance of 20th Century Substance Abuse Treatment: A Native American ExperienceDan Bahlen, San Carlos, AZ

A Case for Harm Reduction in a Medical Respite SettingErin Bailey and Melissa Brown, Edward Thomas House Medical Respite, Seattle, WA

Come on Home: Studying the Direct Return Rate of Used Needles Back to an ExchangeMelissa Lovio and Dhruba Banerjee, UC Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA

Barriers Initiating and Remaining in Addiction Treatment: Drug User Reports on Issues that Hinder Access to and Continuity of Care in MassachusettsLia Beltrame, Boston Public Health Commission, Boston, MA

Evicting the Epidemic: Gentrification and Linkage to HIV Care in San FranciscoFinn Black, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

Willingness to Use a Supervised Injection Facility Among Young Adults Who Use Prescription Opioids Non-Medically in Rhode IslandBenjamin Bouvier, Brown University, Providence, RI

Beyond Alcohol Management: Managed Alcohol Programs and Risk EnvironmentsMeaghan Brown, Centre for Addictions Research of B.C., University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.

Project POINT: A New Approach to Improving Care for Opiate Overdose PatientsKrista Brucker, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

Pharmacy Resource ToolkitMarianne Buchelli, CT Department of Public Health, Hartford, CT

Predicting Attitudes toward People Who Use Heroin and Heroin-related Harm Reduction: Results from a Nationwide SamplePerilou Goddard, Northern Kentucky University, Newport, KY

WELLNESS ZONE

8:00 AM – 9:00 AMYoga classes with Sandee lawlessSweet Bhakti flow (vinyasa) where breath and movement are connected set to fun music. All levels and all are welcome!

Sandee lawless teaches Bhakti Flow, a form of vinyasa yoga (linked breath and movement). She is the cofounder for Yoga Punx PDX (Portland yoga Punx collective) and co-owner of Burning Spirits Yoga.

PAVILION

SCHEDULE


1:00 PM – 2:00 PMMeditation with Acharya Lisa Moore Drop-in meditation practice for all levels. Sit on a folding chair, on floor cushions, in a wheelchair, or lie down and breathe. Reduce stress develop a sense of increased physical well-being, mental clarity, compassionate connection, and spiritual growth. Acharya Lisa Moore is with the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, CA.

4:00 PM – 5:00 PMYoga classes with Sandee lawlessSweet Bhakti flow (vinyasa) where breath and movement are connected set to fun music. All levels and all are welcome!


CHILD ZONE

Child Care Program (Pre-Registration Required)

CREATIVITY ZONE

2:15 PM – 3:45 PMYour Peak Experience in Harm Reduction: Finding the WordsWrite a piece for Saturday night’s 3-minute Spoken Word — a short personal story that tells a lot of truth!Elizabeth Stuart, Rocky Mountain Morpheus Project, Georgetown, COSue Purchase, Harm Reduction Sisters, Georgetown, CO

AFFINITY ZONE

8:00 AM – 9:00 AMNarcotics AnonymousFacilitators:Verna G., Atlanta, GA

4:00 PM – 5:30 PMGRASP Support Group:Facilitators:Aimee Dunkle, Broken No More, Rancho Santa Margarita, CADenise Cullen, Broken No More, Orange, CA

FRIDAY NOV. 4, 2016



10:00 AM–6:00 PM Drop off art for ART*GEEK*LOVE (Creativity)




10:00 AM – 6:00 PMDrop Off Art for ART*GEEK*LOVEDrop off your artwork to be displayed at Saturday’s all-day pop-up art show, ART*GEEK*LOVE. We can take 1–2 pieces, including 3D work. This is not an art sale! Artists have to either collect their work by 10AM Sunday or leave it with us as a donation to be used for evil purposes.

12:45 PM – 2:00 PMPoster Presentations

Illicit Drug Overdose Deaths Resulting from Income Assistance Payments: Analysis of the “Check Effect” Using Daily Mortality DataJane Buxton, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada

Occupational Hazards of Drug Law Enforcement: Needlestick Injury and its Correlates Among Police Officers in Baltimore, MarylandJavier Cepeda, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA

Party Proper: A Nightlife Outreach Worker Training CurriculumMorgan Clark, DanceSafe, North Syracuse, NY

Naloxone Saves Lives: Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution in Two San Diego Emergency DepartmentsJennifer Devries, UCSD School of Medicine, PRIME-Heq, San Diego, CA

Factors Associated with Knowledge of a Good Samaritan Law among Young Adults who use Prescription Opioids Non-MedicallyTristan Evans, Brown University, Providence, RI

Reliability and Validity of the Scales of Heroin-Related Attitudes and Knowledge (SHRAK)Perilou Goddard, Northern Kentucky University, Newport, KY

Paying People with Lived Experience in Community-based Work: Challenges and Opportunities for Inclusion and EquityAlissa Greer, BC Peer Engagement and Evaluation Project, Vancouver, Canada

Chaotic Patient, Insensitive Provider: The Methodology of Peer NavigationNoah Heau, LESHRC, New York, NY

Chronology of Forced Displacement of Street-based Persons Who Inject Drugs in Tijuana, MexicoKenya Lazos, UCSD Division of Global Public Health, San Diego, CA

Factors Impacting the Enactment of Naloxone Legislation in the United States Brianna Casey Lyons, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY

Focused Evaluation of ED Patients Who Self-Report Opiate UsePriya Mammen, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

More Good or Less BadAdi Jaffe, Alternatives Behavioral Health, LLC, Los Angeles, CA

WELLNESS ZONE







CHILD ZONE


CREATIVITY ZONE

To be announced

AFFINITY ZONE

8:00 – 9:00 AMNarcotics AnonymousMark K., Austin, TX

SATURDAY, NOV. 5, 2016



10:00 AM–8:00 PM ART*GEEK*LOVE, ART SHOW (Creativity)




4:00 PM–5:30 PM GRASP Support Group (Affinity)

6:00 PM–8:00 PM ART*GEEK*LOVE, SPECIAL CLOSING EVENT (Creativity)

12:45 PM – 2:00 PMPoster Presentations

The Association of Psychedelic Use and Opioid Use Severity Among Illicit Users in the United StatesNathaniel Putnam, Boston University School of Social Work, Boston, MA

Words Matter: The Effects of Stigmatizing Language on Attitudes toward People Who Use Heroin and Heroin-Related Harm ReductionPerilou Goddard, Northern Kentucky University, Newport, KY

Distributing Crack Pipes in San Francisco: A One-year SummaryMaggie Mayhem, Harm Redux SF, San Francisco, CA

Formation of PWID-Led CBO, A Strategy to Sustainable Risk ReductionSamuel Molokwu, Centre for the Right to Health-CRH, Lagos, Nigeria

Utilizing Social Media Platforms to Engage YMSM of Color in Advocacy, Prevention, Care and Treatment ServicesJulio Roman, North Jersey Community Research Initiative, Newark, NJ

Why Didn’t I Get that Grant? A One-on-one Consultation to Help You Present Your Best to FundersAlessandra Ross, CA Department of Public Health, Office of AIDS, Sacramento, CA

Bundling Syringe Exchange and STD Control Services: A New Paradigm for Reducing Morbidity and Preventing HIV in a Northeastern CityAlexis Roth, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA

Don’t Tell our Stories for Us: The Experience of LGBTQ Individuals in Inpatient Alcohol and other Drug TreatmentApril Smith, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Actual and Perceived Sexual Risk of HIV among Substance Users in a Residential Treatment FacilityLaura Thomas, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Hellenistic Harm Reduction: The Art of Substance Use ManagementBenjamin Wegner, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL

Comparing Moderation and Abstinence Goals in Outpatient Substance Abuse TreatmentAdi Jaffe, Alternatives Behavioral Health, LLC, Los Angeles, CA

“Hurry the F**K Up in There!”: Considerations About Injecting Booth Times and Wait Times for Newly Emerging Supervised Injection SitesMolly Anggo, Insite, Vancouver, Canada

“It’s Fast, It’s Quick, It Stops Me Being Sick”: The Challenge of Changing Injecting RoutinesSarah Hiley, Sydney Uniting Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC), Sydney, Australia

A Space to be Safe or a Hostile Place: Incidence of Client Sexual Harassment toward Front Line Harm Reduction Workers at Insite Supervised Injection FacilityChristie Holden, Insite, Vancouver, Canada


Cuerazos: Behind the Lens of Injection-related Wounds in Tijuana, MexicoMaria Luisa Mittal, UC San Diego, Division of Global Public Health, San Diego, CA

The HIV Risk Environment of Deported Migrants Who Inject Drugs in Mexico: Police Targeting and VictimizationMiguel Pinedo, UC Berkeley & Alcohol Research Group, Berkeley, CA

Changing the Discourse: Sex Workers at the CenterMaxine Holloway Schlaefer, Free Speech Coalition

WELLNESS ZONE





CHILD ZONE


CREATIVITY ZONE

10:00 AM – 8:00 PMART*GEEK*LOVEOne-day pop-up art show

6:00 PM – 8:00 PMART*GEEK*LOVESpecial Closing from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.Spoken Word Open Mic (3 min. per person). Limited slots! Sign-ups start at 6:00 PM.Spoken Word begins at 6:30 PM.

AFFINITY ZONE

8:00 AM – 9:00 AMNarcotics AnonymousGary L., Gloucester MA

4:00 PM – 5:30 PMGRASP Support GroupAimee Dunkle, Broken No More, Rancho Santa Margarita, CADenise Cullen, Broken No More, Orange, CA

SUNDAY, NOV. 6, 2016



8:00 AM–9:00 AM Pick up Artwork (Creativity)

WELLNESS ZONE



CREATIVITY ZONE

Pick up artwork

AFFINITY ZONE

Narcotics AnonymousMark J., Hartford CT


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many heartfelt thanks to the following individuals:

Fatima BadarPaola BarahonaChor BoogieCynthia CapizzoAdam Carlson Esther ChakJackie ChasseeAllan ClearDebbie CookeDenise CullenPete DavidsonAriane EstepaBeth Herman Mark JenkinsMichelle Keil Mark KinzlyLeslie KnightCarmen LandauSandee LawlessLisa MooreShilo MurphyFarah Nageer-KanthorKiefer PatersonEmmet PattersonChristie’s PlaceEsther QuirozCookie RockeyAlessandra RossKelly StevensSteffanie StrathdeeRobert SuarezChristian TulaRuby VelasquezKatie Yuen

BOARD OF DIRECTORSAlex H. Kral, PhD,

Director, Urban Health Program, Research Triangle Institute International, San Francisco, CA

Susan Sherman, PhD (Secretary),

Assistant Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Russell Barbour, PhD, Co-Director, Data Management and Statistical Analysis, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale

School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Dakarai Larriett (Treasurer), Global Program Manager, Elizabeth Arden, New York, NY

Nabarun Dasgupta (President),

McGavran-Greenberg-CB 7435, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC

Nandini Pillai, Programs and Operations Officer, Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Sabin Vaccine Initiative, Washington D.C.

Mark Kinzly, Co-founder, Texas Overdose Naloxone Initiative (TONI), Patient Navigator Hep C Project, Austin Harm Reduction Coalition, TX

William O. Pick, MSW, JD, Senior Technical Adviser, Bureau For Global Health, Office of HIV/AIDS, U.S Agency for International Development, Washington , D.C.

HARM REDUCTION COALITION STAFF

New York Office22 West 27th Street, 5th FloorNew York, NY 10001Phone: (212) 213-6376 Fax: (212) 213-6582

Kenny Ciriaco, Facilities Maintenance

Christopher Collazo, Capacity Building Services

Hiawatha Collins, Harm Reduction Specialist

Nilda Lino, Office Manager

Carolina Lopez, Director of Finance

William Matthews, Physician Assistant

Demetrius McCord, Deputy Executive

DirectorBenjamin Phillips,

Special Project Coordinator

Erica Poellot, Director of Institutional Giving

Daniel Raymond, Director of Policy

Jarad Ringer, Capacity Building Services Manager

Emma Roberts, Capacity Building Services Director

Mike Selick, Hepatitis C Program Coordinator

Sharon Stancliff, Medical Director

Marissa Stiebel, CBS Program Evaluation Assistant

Franklin Taveras, Operations Associate

California Office1440 Broadway, Suite 902Oakland, CA 94612Phone: (510) 444-6969 Fax: (510) 444-6977

Ela Banerjee, Conference Assistant

Adam Butler, Capacity Building Coordinator

Maria Chavez, National Conference Director

J. K. Fowler, National Conference Program Coordinator

Monique Tula, Executive Director

Sarah Weir, DOPE Project Logistics Coordinator

Eliza Wheeler, DOPE Project Manager

Boston OfficeJoanna Berton Martinez,

Senior Trainer/Curriculum Writer

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NOTES

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HARM REDUCTION TRIVIA NIGHT

ON THURSDAY. NOV. 3 AT 9PM IN SHORELINE


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