Day 1 Program

Thursday, February 1 / Friday, February 2 / Saturday, February 3
> List of Speakers

7 am Yoga
7 am Registration Opens
8 – 9 am Breakfast

9 – 10:15 am Welcome & Opening Keynote
Angela Baca, Policy Analyst, Harm Reduction Project, Washington D.C.
Luciano Colonna, Executive Director, Harm Reduction Project
Mayor Rocky Anderson, Mayor, Salt Lake City
Patricia Case, Senior Scientist, Fenway Institute, Boston
Caitlin Padgett, Youth Organizer, Vancouver, Canada

10:15 am – 10:30 am Break

10:30 am Opening Plenary: 500 Days Later (CME)
Moderator: Robert Heimer, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale
Steve Shoptaw, PhD, Research Psychologist, UCLA
Yves-Michel Fontaine, EdM, CASAC, Crystal Clear Project Director, Addiction Institute of NY
Barbara Sullivan, PhD, Associate Director, Utah Addiction Center
Allan Clear, Executive Director, Harm Reduction Coalition
Cathy Reback, PhD, Friends Research Institute
Richard Curtis, PhD, Chair of Anthropology Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

12:30 – 1:40 pm Lunch On Your Own

1:40 – 1:45 pm Performance
Women and Sex—The Musical
Angela Baca, Policy Analyst, Harm Reduction Project, Washington D.C.

1:45 pm

Major Session A (CME)
Women & Meth
Moderator: Wyndi Anderson, Harm Reduction Project, Washington D.C.
Kathy Bray, Volunteers of America, Salt Lake City
Deborah Small, JD, Break The Chains, NY
Sheigla Murphy, PhD, Institute for Scientific Analysis, San Francisco
Corrine Carey, JD, Break The Chains, NY

Major Session B
Interventions with MSM
Moderator: David Ferguson, Utah AIDS Foundation, Salt Lake City
Adapting Gay-Affirmative, Evidence-Based Interventions for Use in a Community-Based Drug Treatment Clinic
Peter Theodore, PhD, Friends Research Institute, Los Angeles
Community Education, Dialogue and Support in NYC – The GMHC Experience
Bill Stackhouse, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, NYC
Unscrambling the Chicken and the Egg: A multifaceted view of crystal meth gay men and HIV
Michael Siever, Stonewall Project, San Francisco
Positive Reinforcement Opportunity Project: Looking at New Treatment Concepts for MSM Who Use Meth
Frank Stona & Brandon Ivory, Deptartment of Public Health, San Francisco

Major Session C
Syringe Exchange Panel (Part One)
Moderator: Nikos A. Leverenz, Drug Policy Alliance, Sacremento
Do methamphetamine injectors use syringe exchange programs differently that other injectors_ Evidence from CalSEP
Ricky Bluthenthal, PhD, Rand Researcher, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
Syringe Access for Meth Users: The California Policy Environment
Alessandra Ross, CA Deptartment of Health Services, Office of AIDS
To Be Announced

Breakout
Faith and Spirituality
Moderator: Paul Simons, Yale University
12 Step Support Groups and Reducing HIV Risk Among Meth Users
Thomas Lyons, PhD, University of Illinois
You Are Called: A Faith-Based Initiative
Pearl Whitehurst, RN Deptartment of Health and Mental Hygiene, Maryland
Spirituality in Communities of Color
Johanna Koskinen, Hepatitis C Multicultural Outreach, Kansas City, MO
The Work of LDS Family Services
Doug LeChiminant, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Utah (Invited)

Panel
Law Enforcement Panel
Moderator: Gabriel Sayegh, Drug Policy Alliance, NYC
Restorative Justice
Sim Gill, J.D., Chief City Prosecutor, Salt Lake City
Interdiction on the Rez
Vicki Peterson, Salish Kootenai College-Nursing Dept., Pablo, MT
The New Hardest Drug
Eric Luna, Hugh B. Brown Chair and Professor of Law, University of Utah College of Law
Does Incarceration Prevent Drug Abuse_ The Prisoners’ Perspectives
Paul Gahlinger, MD, PhD, MPH, Davis County Correctional Facility, Utah

Breakout
Working with Active Users
Moderator: Mary Howe, San Francisco Needle Exchange
Supervising Active Drug Users
Peter Silva, Life Foundation, Honolulu
Project NEON: Peer Support Programs
DL Scott, Seattle Counseling Services
To Be Announced

Breakout
Drug Policy: A Primer
Moderator: Sarah Howell, Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP), NYC
How States are Dealing With Meth Offenders—Politics Driven by Fear Rather Than Reason
Tamar Todd, Drug Policy Alliance, Berkeley
Responding to Meth: California’s Proposition 36 Demonstrates the Promise of Treatment Instead of Incarceration
Theshia Naidoo, Drug Policy Alliance, Berkeley
Meth and the Brain: Three Biological Motifs to Consider When Implementing Drug Policy
Harry Hughes, PhD, Salt Lake Community College
Drug Courts: Addressing Methamphetamine Use Through Therapeutic Jurisprudence
Bradley Finegood, Cognitive Consultants, Charlotte, MI

Workshop
Is La TINA Latina_: An Intervention for Concerned Partners and Friends of Methamphetamine Users
Rafael Diaz, PhD, Cesar E. Chavez Institute, San Francisco
J. Antionio Aguilar-Karyianni, Cesar E. Chavez Institute, San Francisco
Jaime Gutierrez, MPH, AIDS Project of Los Angeles
George Ayala, PsyD, AIDS Project of Los Angeles

Workshop
Designing a Community MAP: Workshop on Strategies for Conducting a Community Meth Assessment Project
P. Allison Minugh, Datacorp, Providence, RI
Susan Janke, Datacorp, Providence, RI

Breakout
Research: From Utah to the Ukraine
Moderator: Marla Corwin, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
A Review of Deaths Involving Methamphetamine in Utah, 1995-2005
Gambrelli Layco, Utah Public Health Laboratories
Substance Use Patters and Meth Use in a Nationally Representative Sample
Brain Flaherty, PhD, University of Washington
Stimulant Injectors From Three Ukraine Cities
Robert Booth, PhD, University of Colorado
The Impact of Meth Use on Inpatient Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities for Youth in Canada
Russ Callaghan, PhD, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Vancouver

Workshop
Reaching the Active Gay/Bisexual User: Social Marketing with Unique Marketing Strategies
David Contois, MBA, www.knowcrystal.org

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm Break

3:45 pm
Workshop (CME)
Crystal Meth and HIV

Breakout
Online Interventions
Moderator: Don McVinney, MSSW, Harm Reduction Coalition, NYC
What’s Love Got To Do With It_ Sex, Addiction and the Internet
Clint Ibele, Northern Kentucky Health Department
The Clean, Sober and Sexy Campaign
David Barrett, Desert AIDS Project, Palm Springs, CA
Hi! My Name is Tina
Nick Boyce, AIDS Committee of Toronto

Workshop
Transgender Community: HIV and Meth Prevention

Workshop
Men and Skillful Means: A Therapy for MSM Speed Users
Paul Simons, Yale University
Yves-Michel Fontaine, EdM, CASAC, ‘Crystal Clear Project’, Addiction Institute of NYC

Panel
Understanding MSM and Meth Today
Moderator: Mark Hammer, New York State Deptartment of Health
Crystal Meth: Underlying Issues Motivating Use for Gay, Bisexual and MSM of Color
Norman Candelario Community Based Research Coordinator, NYC
Crystal: It’s Not Just For White Boys Anymore
Alex Barrios, Charles Martin South Beach AIDS Project, FL
Struggling with Meth Use: HIV Positive MSM in a San Francisco Bay Area County
Maggie Chartier, PGSP-Stanford Consortium
Meth Use Among Gay Men: Findings From GLMA’s 2006 ‘Breaking the Grip’ Project
James Beaudreau Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, San Francisco

Panel
Don’t Lie To Me: Moving Beyond ScareTactics and Surveillance Programs in Meth Prevention
Moderator: Nicole Campolucci, Homeless Youth Resource Center, Salt Lake City
Caitlin Padgett, Youth Organizer, Vancouver, CAN
Jennifer Kern, Drug Policy Alliance, San Francisco
Camilla Field, Drug Policy Alliance, San Francisco

Panel
Raising the Speed Limit: Substitution Therapy
Bill Piper, Drug Policy Alliance, Washington D.C.
David Roach, New Zealand
Panelists to be announced

Workshop
Neighbors Building Community
Javier Herrera, Meth Free Alliance, Tuscon, AZ

Workshop
Swimming Upstream: Building an HIV Prevention Toolbox
Sarah Howell and Sean Barry, CHAMP, Providence, RI.

Workshop
Curriculum aimed at HIV/STD Prevention for Women who are at High Risk due to Substance Abuse and Trauma
Germayne Tizzano, Views From a Treehouse, Inc., Ohio

7:30 – 8:45 pm
Science & Response Film Festival
Rock Bottom: Gay Men & Meth
Produced by Colin A. Weil
Running Time: 61 mins
“Cautionary...disturbing...remarkable candor. [director] Jay Corcoran has never shied away from...painful and politically touchy htmlects of gay male sexuality.”
– Stephen Holden, New York Times
“Terrific” – Bay Area Reporter
“Too alarming to be ignored” – Philadelphia City Paper
“A testament to how difficult addiction and recovery is, a message that bears repeating” – Philadelphia Gay News