2011 Through the maze: making treatment better symposium

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30 August

2011 Drug Policy Symposium: Through the maze. Making treatment better

Organiser: New Zealand Drug Foundation

Experts from around New Zealand, and from overseas, gathered in Wellington on Tuesday 30 August 2011 for a Drug Policy Symposium organised by NZ Drug Foundation and NZ Society on Alcohol and Drug Dependence.

The purpose of the Symposium was to focus the attention of policy makers and funders on ways to develop a high quality addiction treatment system that gets more people into treatment and retains those who are already in it.

Speakers include Associate Minister of Health Peter Dunne, and one-time Deputy Drug Czar to the Obama Administration Professor Tom McLellan.

Here is the programme outline with links to presentations:

9.00am: Mihi Whakatau/Welcome

Ross Bell, Executive Director, New Zealand Drug Foundation

Hon Peter Dunne, Associate Minister of Health

9.30am: Reimagining addiction treatment

“Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.” – Gian Carlo Menotti

Professor Tom McLellan, Director, Center for Substance Abuse Solutions, University of Pennsylvania

Powerpoint: Moving healthcare from addiction to substance use disorders.pdf (1.3Mb)

Professor Doug Sellman, Director, National Addiction Centre, University of Otago

Powerpoint: Re-imagining addiction treatment.pdf (.6Mb)