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– DAY TWO – Tuesday 21 April 2009
'User rights are human rights, stop torture now.': a protest march by the Thai
Drug User Network called for human rights and evidence-based treatment. 'Thai
drug users are dying for human rights,' they chanted. 'Torture is not a cure.'
Programme changes
TUESDAY 21 APRIL 2009
Sessions
C19: Abstract #918
will now be presented by
David Jacka instead of Nguyen Thanh Long.
C21: Abstract #956
(by Adeeba Kamarulzaman)
has been withdrawn.
C22: Abstract #707
will
now be presented by Alexander Duke instead of
Prasert Thathong.
Posters Board 18: Abstract
#330
will now be presented by Ingrid Bakker
instead of Jeannot Schmidt.
Board 25: Abstract
#674
(A Situation Assessment to Drug Use in 29
districts of Bangladesh) will now be presented
instead of abstract #370.
Conference notices
The following sessions will be available in
Vietnamese:
Tuesday P2, M2, C14, C19
Wednesday: M5, M8, C26,C32 (R2)
Thursday: M11, M13, P3, CS
The International Nursing Harm Reduction
Network
invites you to attend a meeting on
Wednesday 22 April at 1pm in the hotel lobby.
For more information contact Stephane Ibanez-
de-Benito.
Lost and found:
If anyone has mistakenly picked
up a Spirax A4 notepad and business cards from
the ASP Healthcare stand, please return to
Meredyth Love at the stand.
Harm reduction and pleasure maximisation
–
join the debate:
INPUD member Cheryl White
will be tackling the complicated issue of pleasure
relating to illegal drugs at a workshop today at
2pm. ‘After almost 20 years of being an illicit
drug user activist I feel the time is right to tackle
the topic of “pleasure maximisation” in relation to
the use of illicit drugs,’ she says. Her workshop
will explore the notion of maximising pleasurable
experiences based on her own life experiences –
40-year-old Ms White has been an illegal drug
user since the age of 12 and a habitual injector
since she was 24 – and will look at the
importance of redefining harm reduction from the
drug user’s perspective. She also promises to
dismantle the myth of dual diagnosis/concurrent
disorders and reveal the non-existence of
addiction as a disease, and approaches the
subject from her perspective of living with bipolar
disorder (manic depression). This interactive
workshop will attempt to redefine problematic
interpretations of illegal drugs and people who
use them – take part at 14.00 in the Workshop
Lounge (Mezzanine Floor).
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Banging the drum for harm reduction: traditional Thai drummers open
proceedings at IHRA's 20th international conference, with a theme this year
of harm reduction and human rights.