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1 FROM OCTOBER 11 to 14, 2011 BELLEVUE CENTER OF CONGRESS, BIARRITZ THS 10 SCHEDULE (may be changed) TUESDAY OCTOBER, 11st 5-7 PM : THS10 CONGRESS OPENING SESSION 5PM DEBATE/CONFERENCE 7PM END 9AM PLENARY SESSION : ADDICTIONS Stress and addiction Mary Jeanne KREEK (New York) WEDNESDAY OCTOBER, 12ND Opioid Maintenance : terminable or interminable? Herbert KLEBER (New York) Neuroscience and the DSM 5 Definition of Addiction Charles O BRIEN (Philadelphie), Abuse liability of maintenance medications for opioid dependence Sandra COMER (New York) Titre à déterminer Nora VOLKOW (Bethesda) 13 :00 2 :30 PM LUNCH 2 :30 4:30PM

2 PLENARY SESSION : RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ABOUT COCAÏNE ADDICTION Medications to treat concurrent opiate and cocaine dependence Ivan MONTOYA (Bethesda) Vaccines for Cocaine Abuse: Current Status Franck ORSON (Houston) Naltrexone reduces the abuse liability of amphetamine but not cocaine Sandra COMER (New York) Prize based contingency management for cocaine dependence: a 24-week randomized controlled trial/ preliminary results Sylvie PETITJEAN (Bâle) WORKSHOPS WORKSHOP 1: FROM PROHIBITION TO DRAGON DOMESTICATION : WHAT ABOUT EDUCATION? Président: Pascal COURTY (Clermont Ferrand) Modérateur: Patrick BEAUVERIE (Paris) Risks taking during first IV use in France: primary results of the Priminject survey Anne GUICHARD (Paris) Therapeutic education and OST: are drug users educable? By who? Pascal COURTY (Clermont Ferrand) Education to harm linked to IV use Valère ROGISSARD (Paris), et Marie DEBRUS (Paris) Peer education Elisabeth AVRIL (Paris) Caring for therapeutic observance Marie Line RAYNAL (Ville) WORKSHOP 2 : CANNABIS, CARE AND ALL AROUND Moderation : Michel REYNAUD (Villejuif) and Amine BENYAMINA (Villejuif) Presentation of the INCANT Project Olivier PHAN (Paris) Assessment of addictive and psychiatric disorders Alain DERVAUX (Paris) Neuroscience and cannabis: some reflection trails Amine BENYAMINA (Villejuif)

3 WORKSHOP 3 : FORUM HIV, HCV AND ADDICTIONS Moderation: Eric MERLET (Paris) Network Caring service : For a better care of vulnerable people suffering from HCV François PONSIN (Bruxelles) Jacques SCHUMANN (Charleville-Mézières) Care access and HIV /AIDS and HCV screening Folly ANYOVI (Lomé) Algerian example of care of «hépatants» patients Saadi BERKANE (Alger) What lobbyings and strategies for a better care of heptitis in Africa? Djénéba TOURE (Bamako) A new concern about HCV transmission in IV drug users Elise ROY (Montréal) WORKSHOP 4 : THS FROM NORTH TO SOUTH Moderation : Gilles RAGUIN (Paris) and Patrick BEAUVERIE (Paris) Prevalence of infections in IDU in Dakar Sandra PERROT (Paris) Operational research HIV/IDU in Vietnam Laurence WEISS (Paris) African drug users women Fatima Asouab (Rabat) 4:30 Pause 5 :00 7 :00PM PLENARY SESSION : PSYCHE AND DRUGS Spirituality and addiction Jacques BESSON (Genève) Positive psychology François CRESPO (Genève) Neurobiology and psychoanalysis: to a convergence? Georges-Henri MELENOTTE (Strasbourg)

4 WORKSHOPS WORKSHOP 1 : TOBACCO, CLINICAL ASPECTS TO KNOW (Tobacco French Society) Moderation : Didier TOUZEAU (PARIS) Tobacco Consumption in polydrugs users in addiction treatment Frédéric SORGE (Paris) Suicidal behaviour and suicides in smokers and ex smokers. Role of dual disorders. Ivan BERLIN (Paris) Treatment of tobacco addiction in HIV patients Nathalie WIRTH (Nancy) Results of smoking prohibition in public places Brigitte BENEZECH (Ville) WORKSHOP 2: FAST TESTS Modération : Pascal MELIN (Saint Dizier) Development of communautary health actions in harm reduction centers Anthony BROUARD (Bordeaux) Jean-Yves LE TALEC (Toulouse) ACTIS : two approaches, one partnership Michel COLLS (Saint-Etienne) YOZ - Fast tests to facilitate screening among precarious populations Gérald PONSARD (Charleville Mézières) Marie Dominique PAUTI (Paris) WORKSHOP 3 : PRISON AND CARE Chair : Florence AUBENAS (Paris) Moderation : Gabriel MOUESCA (Bayonne) Sick prisons Saâdia YAKOUB (Paris) From penitentiary medicine to medicine in penal institution : truth and drifts Fadi MEROUEH (Villeneuve les Maguelonne) Long penalties and care access : the case of political prisoners Mertxe COLINA (Bayonne)

5 Medicals in prison : relation with prisoners and with penal institution François BES (Paris) Medicine in Algerian prisons : past, present and future Mohamed-Salah LAIDLI (Alger) 7 PM Fin THURSDAY OCTOBER, 13RD 8 :30 9 :30 AM PLENARY SESSION 1: DRUG CONSUMPTION ROOMS Moderation: Patrizia CARRIERI (Marseille) and Teresa MAURA (Bilbao) The science and politics of Insite: inside the evaluation of Vancouver s supervised injection site Thomas KERR (Vancouver) 9 :45 11 :15 PLENARY SESSION 2 OPIATE SUBSTITUION TREATMENTS Chair: Jean-Jacques DEGLON (Genève) and Mary Jeanne KREEK (New York) OST and professional practices Brigitte REILLER (Bordeaux) Methadone, metabolism and cardiotoxicity: an update about biological, clinical and genetic data Chin EAP (Lausanne) Heroin Programs Experience Miguel CASAS (Barcelona) Addiction and pregnancy Gabriele FISCHER (Vienna) 11:30 13:00 PM PLENARY SESSION 3 HEPATITIS Chair: Robert SCHAEFFER (New York) Genetic markers of Hepatitis C progression and response to therapy Christian TREPO (Lyon) HCV: recovery for everyone?

6 Victor DE LEDINGHEN (Bordeaux) Care delivery to hepatitis C infected drug users in French reference centers Philippe CHOSSEGROS (Lyon) 1:00 14:30 PM SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM SCHERING PLOUGH PLENARY SESSION : PHARMACODEPENDENCIES Chairman : Michel MALLARET (Grenoble) Moderation : Nathalie RICHARD (Paris) and Joëlle MICALLEF (Marseille) 2:30 4:30 PM Contribution of drug supervision for clinicians Michel MALLARET (Grenoble) Measurement of Buprenorphine and morphine sulfates Syringes Nicolas AUTHIER (Clermont Ferrand) WORKSHOPS INSERM expert s report about medicine drugs dependency Xavier THIRION (Marseille) Misuse of Methyl-Phenidate Joelle MICALLEF (Marseille) Passive poisoning with marihuana : the fish tank syndrome Nicolas AUTHIER (Clermont Ferrand) WORKSHOP1 : ALCOHOL : AROUND THE BENEFITS/RISKS POLITICS Co-Chairmen: Michel REYNAUD (Villejuif) and Amine BENYAMINA (Villejuif) Moderation : Clinical trial with Baclofène Phillipe JAURY (Paris) Alcohol : can reduced consumption be a therapeutical goal? Henri-Jean AUBIN (Paris) The «Alcoochoix Program» Experience Eva SEKERA (Genève) WORKSHOP 2 : ORGANIZATION OF HCV AND HBV CARE IN PRIVATE PRACTICE Moderation : Xavier AKNINE (Bondy)

7 Role and place of medical microstructures Georges Henri MELENOTTE (Strasbourg) Addiction centers mobile consulting in GP s offices (Episea) Pascale BOUTHILON (Paris) Proximity mini networks : role and function Sibel BILAL (Paris) et Philippe GRUNBERG (Gagny) HCV Health care organization in a medical and familial clinic Julie LOSLIER (Québec) WORKSHOP 3 : NEUROBIOLOGY WORKSHOP 4: NEW CHALLENGES FOR HARM REDUCTION Puting harm reduction back on public debate Pierre CHAPPARD (Paris) Populations neglected by harm reduction Patrizia CARRIERI (Marseille) Harm reduction and addiction centers: impossible task? Brigitte REILLER (Bordeaux) Pharmasud project and needle exchange by air mail Catherine DUPLESSY (Paris) 4 :30 5 :00 Pause 5:00 SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM RECKITT BENCKISER 7:00 End 8:00 PM CONGRESS DINNER

8 FRIDAY OCTOBER, 14TH 9:00 10:45 AM PLENARY SESSION HIV AND DRUG USE 30 years of AIDS Daniel ZULAIKA (San Sebastian) Mortality and morbidity in 2011 in people suffering from HIV in Northern countries Laurence WEISS (Paris) Prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS among drug using population: NIDA s research priorities Jacques NORMAND (Bethesda) 11:00 13 :00 AM PLENARY SESSION : HARM REDUCTION Patrizia CARRIERI (Marseille) Indetermined title John STRANG (London) Positive impact of HCV treatment initiation on adherence to HIV treatment in co-infected patients: implications for access to HCV care Perrine ROUX (Marseille) Legal Obstructions to HIV Prevention among Drug Injectors in Ukraine Robert BOOTH (Denver) Transitions from concentrated HIV epidemics among people who injected drugs to self-sustained heterosexual HIV epidemics Don DES JARLAIS (New York) 1:00 2:30 PM 2:30 4:00 PM WORKSHOPS SESSION POSTERS - SESSION POSTERS - SESSION POSTERS - SESSION POSTERS WORKSHOP 1 : ATTACHMENT DISORDER AND DRUG USE Moderation : Philippe CHOSSEGROS (Lyon) Clinical aspects of attachment disorders in dependent subjects Sabine MOUCHET MAGES (Lyon) Bringing of neurosciences to understanding attachment disorders in drug addicts Lucie PENNEL (Grenoble)

9 Attachment disorders and eating disorders in adolescents Frédéric ATGER (Paris) Family care of drug users in jail Bertrand LEGEAY (Nantes) WORKSHOP 2: NEW TREATMENTS OF HCV AND HBV Moderation : Pascal MELIN (Saint Dizier) Care delivery to HCV drug users under OST : a multiple challenge Pascal COURTY (Clermont Ferrand) Screening, evaluation and hepatitis care in psychosocial rehab Jean-Philippe LANG (Erstein) Juliette FOUCHER (Bordeaux) Malek ABAZID (Paris) WORKSHOP 3 : ADDICTION AND DUAL DISORDERS 4:30 5:00 Pause 5:00 6:00 PM CLOSING SESSION

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