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1 Biarritz Meeting 12th International Congress Addictions - Hepatitis - AIDS - (ATHS) Program September 29 - October 2nd, 2015 Bellevue Center of Congress - Biarritz plenary sessions, debates, workshops, posters twitter.com/thsbiarritz facebook.com/aths.biarritz

2 Tuesday september 29 th pm : Under the High Patronage of Opening In the presence of Solange MENIVAL, vice President of the Regional counsil of Aquitaine, of Michel LAFORCADE, Directeur général de l Agence Régionale de Santé Aquitaine, and of Michel VEUNAC, Mayor of Biarritz pm : simultaneously translated Conference/Debate : Hepatitis C, DAAs and public health : treating, who and when, and at what price? Victor de LEDINGHEN (Bordeaux), Christian TREPO (Lyon), Pascal MELIN (SOS Hépatites Saint Dizier), Jean-François CORTY (Médecins du Monde Paris), Daniel DHUMEAUX (Paris), Eberhard SCHATZ (Amsterdam) As a tribute to : Alain ROUSSET Président de la Région Aquitaine Jean-Jacques LASSERRE Président du Conseil Général des Pyrénées-Atlantiques Michel VEUNAC Maire de Biarritz Michel LAFORCADE Directeur général de l Agence Régionale de Santé Aquitaine Under the Honorary Presidency of Pr Françoise BARRE-SINOUSSI (Paris) Under the Presidency of Charles O BRIEN (Philadelphie) Christian TREPO (Lyon) Under the Direction of Jean-Pierre DAULOUEDE (Bayonne) General Secretory, Director of the Congress Arkaitz AGUERRETXE COLINA (Bayonne) Assistant General Secretory, Assistant Director of the Congress Marc AURIACOMBE (Bordeaux) Chairman of the scientific Comitee In collaboration with Jean-Marie Guffens Jean-Jacques DEGLON (Genève) President of the SETHS Pierre Pradier N enregistrement organisme : 2132 Développement professionnel continu : Association Nationale des Généralistes pour la Recherche et l Étude sur les Hépatopathies Chroniques graphisme : delfi[email protected] Partnerships :

3 Wednesday september 30 th am : Auditorium 1 - simultaneously translated Addictions Co-chair : Jean-Jacques DEGLON (Genève), Charles O BRIEN (Philadelphie) Moderation : Marc AURIACOMBE (Bordeaux) Addiction and gene-environment interaction / Mickaël NAASSILA (Amiens) Gene Variants Recently Identified as Associated with Opioid Addictions / Mary Jeanne KREEK (New York) Methadone and buprenorphine, safety issues / Adrian DUNLOP (Sidney) Addictions and sleep / Maurice DEMATTEIS (Grenoble) am pm : Auditorium - simultaneously translated am : break Brain substrates of relapse vulnerability : imaging the brain during cue - induced drug motivation («GO!») Anna Rose CHILDRESS (Philadephie) New therapeutics in addiction treatment / Ivan MONTOYA (Bethesda) Patient quality of life : for better and not for worse / Patrick MARTIN (Paris) Violence against women with subtsance abuse / Gabriele FISCHER (Vienne) pm : Auditorium - simultaneously translated Indivior Symposium : Opioid analgesics addiction in patients experiencing pain Moderation : Marc AURIACOMBE (Bordeaux) Current state and screening / Serge PERROT (Paris) Identifying the different profiles of opioid analgesic misuses / Nicolas AUTHIER (Clermont-Ferrand) Management of opioid analgesic dependence : which place for substitution therapy? / Maurice DEMATTEIS (Grenoble) pm : Auditorium - simultaneously translated Dual disorders Co-chair : Mehdi PAES (Rabat), Miguel CASAS (Barcelone) Moderation : Amine BENYAMINA (Paris) ADHD in opiate addicted patients : assessment and clinical features Constanza DAIGRE (Barcelone) Suicidal risk in gamblers asking for care Morgane GUILLOU LANDREAT (Nantes) Towards a specific psychopathology of heroin addiction Icro MAREMMANI (Pise) Gender influence and Dual Diagnosis in opiate-dependent patients / Carlos RONCERO (Barcelone) Rhune 1 - simultaneously translated Injectables opioids Co-chair : Nicolas AUTHIER (Clermont-Ferrand), Ambros UCHTENHAGEN (Zurich) Moderation : Miguel VELAZQUEZ (Paris) The function and role of heroin assisted treatment at the treatment system level / Ambros UCHTENHAGEN (Zurich) Morphine sulfate : «replacement or pleasure : do we have to choose»? Contradictory debate Nicolas AUTHIER (Clermont-Ferrand), Miguel VELAZQUEZ (Paris) Injectable buprenorphine : what are users s expectations? Perrine ROUX (Marseille) Naloxone, an antagonist to prevent and treat overdoses Jean-Michel DELILE (Bordeaux) pm : lunch break, poster session pm : break pm : Rhune 2 Abbvie Symposium : Care of Chronic HCV drug users in prisons and addiction clinics From clinical practice to patient experience Fadi MEROUEH (Villeneuve-lès-Maguelonne) pm : Vagues 3+4 Workshop 1 : An alternative to drug consumption rooms Chair : Serge LONGERE (Paris) Yann GRANGER (Marseille), Pascal PEREZ (Montreuil) Diane LESBOUEYRIES (Montreuil), David MICHELS (Paris) Vagues 1+2 Workshop 2 : Innovative clinical experiences in hepatology Co-chair : Véronique LATOUR (Bordeaux), Jean-Philippe LANG (Strasbourg) Chronic HCV : what are the new missions for psychiatrists and addiction specialists? / Jean-Philippe LANG (Strasbourg) Creation of a pedagogic tool based on an hepatitis talking group Fadila DEHAS (Montpellier), Caroline ALARCOS (Montpellier) Delivery of HCV treatment in harm reductions centers Véronique LATOUR (Bordeaux) Dynamics of viral C infection in drugs users in addiction clinics / Clotilde DUBURQUE (Lille) Does social vulnerability take part in HBV, HCV and HIV screening and access to HBV vaccination in IVDU in addiction clinics? / Fiorant DI-NINO (Strasbourg)

4 Wednesday september 30 th 2015/ following Auditorium - simultaneously translated Cannabinoids : research, clinics and use Co-chair : Amine BENYAMINA (Paris), Michel REYNAUD (Paris) Cannabis : Ethics and the Law Wim VAN DEN BRINK (Amsterdam) Cannabis Social Clubs Joan COLOM (Barcelone) Impact of regular cannabis use on the brain : interest of visual markers Vincent LAPREVOTE (Nancy) Rhune 1 - simultaneously translated Innovations in harm reduction in France Chair : Jean-François CORTY (Médecins du Monde Paris) Individual support and education on the harms associated with injection : place of common knowledge and issues of community research Marie JAUFFRET-ROUSTIDE (Paris) Take home naloxone : an action of common sense Jean-Pierre LHOMME (Paris) Rapid Diagnostic tests : a complementary tool close to exposed populations Marie-Dominique PAUTI (Paris) Patent opposition, acting for a real universal access to HCV treatment Olivier MAGUET (Paris) pm : The «Fabrique du funambule» presents : 911 and a bit more... A lecture and then, characters to meet, to discover and not to let go... Keep the line available, this is an emergency call. Textes and acting : Twins (small) Towers Artistic conception : Little Man, Businessman, Cosmic girl pm : Rhune 2 Workshop 1 : Harm reduction in tobacco use Moderation : Anne BORGNE (Paris) Electronic cigarette - legislation, politics, science : were do we stand? / Brice LEPOUTRE (Paris) Electronic cigarette in harm reduction centers Agnès LABORDE (Montreuil) Electronic cigarette use in Korsakoff patients Philippe MICHAUD (Villeneuve-la-Garenne) Vagues 1+2 Workshop 2 : Prisons Moderation : Saadia YAKOUB (Paris), Fadi MEROUEH (Villeneuve-lès-Maguelonne) First results of a sociological research on practices and perceptions of harm reduction in carceral environment Marie JAUFFRET ROUSTIDE (Paris) Availability and accessibility of harm reduction tools in prisons of 5 europeans states (data from the Pride Europe Study) : implications in public health Laurent MICHEL (Paris) Inmates rights and HIV infection Mohamed SOUMAH (Dakar) Out of prison unit : towards a continuity of cares in and out Véronique LATOUR (Bordeaux) HCV : knowledge, false beliefs and risky behavior in exprisoners and canadian control group Evelyne VALLIERES (Québec) How to improve internal communications in european prisons : Rehab project Fabio STERNBERG (Madrid) Vagues 3+4 Workshop 3 : Innovative clinical experiences in addictology Moderation : Eliane HERRAN (Bayonne) Relevance of motivational interviewing associated technics in adolescent cannabis users Jacques BERGERON (Montréal) Alcohol Marketing and alcohol use disorders Morgane GUILLOU (Nantes) Assessment of a cocaine and psychostimulants abstinence program in an addiction hospital Etienne POT (Lyon) Abuse of anabolic steroids in athletes : a bibliometric analysis / Victor AGULLO (Valencia) Learn in group how to channel one s anger Jean-Marie ROSSIER (Genève) Sexual addictions : therapeutic strategies to readjust a compulsive sexuality / Marthylle LAGADEC (Paris)

5 Thursday october 1 st am : Auditorium - simultaneously translated am : Rhune 1 Drug use and infectious risks : HIV - HCV co infections HIV/HCV Lecture : Addiction to death / Marc REISINGER (Bruxelles) Co-chair : Jacques NORMAND (Bethesda), Christian TREPO (Lyon), Jean-François DELFRAISSY (Paris) Injection Drug Users and HIV : not Time to Declare Victory Jacques NORMAND (Bethesda) Reducing HIV incidence among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Ukraine : results from a peer-based network intervention / Robert BOOTH (Denver) Hepatitis C treatments : four aces game Christian TREPO (Lyon) Simplified diagnostics - the key to success Tanya APPLEGATE (Sidney) Interest of Ag Core quantification in HCV for the screening of chronic hepatitis C Karine LACOMBE (Paris) / Léa DUCHESNE (Paris) Challenges to Implement Integrated HCV Prevention Services / Jason FARRELL (Amsterdam) Eradicate coinfections Pascal MELIN (Saint Dizier) am : Rhune 1 - simultaneously translated Opioids : new paths Co-chair : Mary Jeanne KREEK (New York), Charles O BRIEN (Philadelphie) Moderation : Marc REISINGER (Bruxelles) Psychiatric comorbidities in opioid-dependent patients : the influence on methdone doses Carlos RONCERO (Barcelone) Current status of Mu Opioid Receptor Directed Treatments for Opioid Addiction and a New Target for Novel Treatments of Cocaine Addiction and Adjunctive Treatment of Other Addictions Mary Jeanne KREEK (New York) SROM (slow release oral morphine) - an add-on medication for opioid dependence : risks & benefits Gabriele FISCHER (Vienne) A new method for relapse prevention in opiate addiction : slow release naltrexone Charles O BRIEN (Philadelphie) am pm : break pm : Auditorium - simultaneously translated Gilead Symposium : Multidisciplinary care : a key for HCV treatment in DU Moderation : Elisabeth AVRIL (Paris), Frédéric CHAFFRAIX (Strasbourg) Introduction : Presentations and discussions of multidisciplinary collaborations in the patient care pathway / Frédéric CHAFFRAIX (Strasbourg) Experience of Strasbourg s microstructures / Jean-Philippe LANG (Strasbourg) CSAPASCAN experience / Brigitte REILLER (Bordeaux) Mobile team in Perpignan / André-Jean REMY (Perpignan) Conclusion / Elisabeth AVRIL (Paris) h30 pm : lunch break, poster session ATHS 2013

6 Thursday october 2 nd 2015 / following Auditorium - simultaneously translated Alcohol, today and tomorrow Chair : Amine BENYAMINA (Paris) French and european recommandations Karl MANN (Mannheim) Focus on treatments Benjamin ROLLAND (Lille) Focus on alcohol research Nicolas SIMON (Marseille) Binge drinking un adolescence : cerebral consequences and addiction vulnerability, results from the european Alcobinge project / Mickael NAASSILA (Amiens) Rhune 1 - simultaneously translated Should Food/Eating Addiction replace current Eating Disorders? Chair : Charles O BRIEN (Philadelphie) Moderation : Marc AURIACOMBE (Bordeaux) Mélina FATSEAS (Bordeaux), Anna Rose CHILDRESS (Philadelphie) Charlotte KERVAN (Bordeaux), Julie COLLOMBAT (Bordeaux) pm : pm : break Vagues 3+4 Workshop 1 : Place of firstline stakeholders in addictology : general practitioners, pharmacists, work medicine : from early screening to long term follow up Moderation : Xavier AKNINE (Bondy) Pharmaddict : Place of the pharmacist Stéphane ROBINET (Paris) Clinical presentations on the role of GP Françoise ETCHEBAR (Pau), Bruno JOURNE (Paris) Presentation of the website «Intervenir Addictions» Dominique DE MUIZON (Chauny) Vagues 1+2 Workshop 2 : Is Hep C treatment an harm reduction tool? Presentation of SOS Hepatitis national survey Moderation : Pascal MELIN (Saint Dizier) Round table : Hélène DELAQUAIZE (Paris), Frédéric CHAFFRAIX (Strasbourg), Nathalie KRAICHETTE (Charleville-Mézières) Rhune 2 Workshop 3 : Is what we see when we look at drug users true to their reality? Philippe CHOSSEGROS (Lyon), Agnès CADET TAIROU (Paris), Jean-Pierre COUTERON (Paris), Fiorant DI NINO (Strasbourg), Fabrice OLIVET (Paris) pm : Auditorium - en traduction simultanée Panel/Debate Is war on drugs a failure? What are the alternatives? ANIMATION : Christophe HONDELATTE (Paris) With : Milton ROMANI GERNER / Elena LAGOMARSINO, Junta Nacional de Drogas, Presidencia de la Republica, Montevideo Thomas KERR, PhD, Director, Urban Health Research Initiative, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Robert BOOTH, PhD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Denver Javier SAGREDO, Advisor, Democratic Governance and Citizen Security, Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nation Development Programme, New York Juan DEL POZO, Coordinador General de la Cooperacion Española en el Uruguay, Agencia Española de Cooperacion International para el Desarrollo (AECID), Montevideo Patrick AEBERHARD, former President and creator of Doctors of the World, co-creator of IHRA, former Counselor at the Ministry of Health pm : Meeting Dinner, Plaza Berri 42 Avenue du Maréchal Foch, Biarritz

7 Friday october 1 st am : Auditorium - simultaneously translated Community research Chair : Perrine ROUX (Marseille) Engaging People who use Drugs in Research : Experiences from the Urban Health Research Initiative Thomas KERR (Vancouver) Research with community actors : the AERLI example / Perrine ROUX (Marseille) Ipergay and Slam : results and perspectives of 2 community research / Daniela ROJAS CASTRO (Paris) am : break am pm : Auditorium - simultaneously translated Drug policies Co-chair : Joan COLOM (Barcelone), Thomas KERR (Vancouver) Meta addictology : from street to recovery / Jacques BESSON (Lausanne) Evolution of the french harm reduction model / Marie JAUFFRET ROUSTIDE (Paris) Evolution of the danish harm reduction model / Esben HOUBORG (Copenhague) Drug policies and human rights / Javier SAGREDO (New York) Role of international cooperation in the approach and development of drug policies / Juan DEL POZO (Montevideo) pm : lunch break, poster session ATHS 2013 With the support of :

8 Friday october 1 st 2015 / following Auditorium - simultaneously translated Substance use disorders, HIV, HCV, in resource limited countries : the case of Vietnam Co-chair : Gilles RAGUIN (Paris), Don DES JARLAIS (New York), Le Minh GIANG (Hanoi) Moderation : Didier LAUREILLARD (Paris) Substance use disorders in Vietnam since «Doi Moi» (Renovation) : an epidemiologiocal overview and update on national program Le Minh GIANG (Hanoi) Community supported respondent driven sampling among PWID in Hai Phong : a case study with implications for intervention Don DES JARLAIS (New York) Results DRIVE-IN follow-up in Hai-Phong Nicolas NAGOT (Montpellier) Results and follow up of the Integrated treatment for opiate addiction and HIV in HCMC David METZGER (Philadelphie) Rhune 1 - simultaneously translated Tobacco and dual diagnosis (Société Française de Tabacologie) Moderation : Didier TOUZEAU (Paris) Tobacco and suicidal behaviours Ivan BERLIN (Paris) Tobacco and anxiety Mélina FATSEAS (Bordeaux) Tobacco care in psychiatric clinic : an update Nathalie WIRTH (Paris) Tobacco consulting for patients and workers of psychiatric hospital Didier TOUZEAU (Paris) pm : Rhune 2 Workshop 1 : Role of hospital addiction mobile team : screening, orientation and link in and around the hospital Chair : Pierre POLOMENI (Paris) Moderation : Gérard CAMPAGNE (Bayonne) Addiction mobile hospital team : reconciling E Health and mobility. Test and perspectives in Dordogne Anivel RAMOS (Périgueux) Screening and patients orientation of adult and children patients in a mother and child hospital in Paris Emmanuelle PEYRET (Paris) Place of addiction mobile hospital teams in the Pyrénées Orientales area Bénédicte DELMAS (Perpignan) pm : Closing Session Vagues 1+2 Workshop 2 : prevention of risky behaviors : action at all ages Moderation : Nicolas BONNET (Paris) Unplugged, an efficient prevention program in the Nord 92 Laëtitia USUBELLI (Clichy) Motivationnal interviewing with young adults : a pilot program in Rhone Alpes region Anne Cécile CORNIBERT (Paris) Representative students, guide of party nights and «le Plan B» web site : prevention by and for students Anne-Cécile RAHIS (Bordeaux) Vagues 3+4 Workshop 3 : Harm reduction and precariousness Presentation of the movie «RDR 2» from Philippe Lachambre and Laurent Appel, (51 mn) Followed by a discussion : Reducing harms or reducing social divide? Moderation : Fabrice OLIVET (Paris) Céline OYHENARD (Gagny), Valère ROGISSART (Paris)

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