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1 PROGRAM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 TH 8:00 9:30 REGISTRATION Hall: Maria Izquierdo 10:00-11:30 OPENING CEREMONY 11:30-12:30 PANEL: GENERATING EVIDENCE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PUBLIC POLICIES: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON ADDICTION RESEARCH Roberto Tapia-Conyer. President. Centros de Integracion Juvenil National Board. Mexico. Why Is a New Journal of Scientific Research in Addiction Necessary? Silvia Cruz Martin del Campo. Principal Investigator in the Graduate Program of Neuropharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Research and Advanced Studies Center. National Polytechnic Institute. Mexico. Jose Octavio Nateras Dominguez. Dean. Iztapalapa Metropolitan Autonomous University. Mexico. Carlos Roncero Alonso. Vice-Secretary. Spanish Society of Dual Pathology. Spain. 1

2 12:30-14:00 PANEL: INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC POLICIES ON DRUGS Carmen Fernandez Caceres. General-Director. Centros de Integracion Juvenil. Mexico. Drug Public Policies in Mexico. Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg. State Secretary. Ministry of Health and Care Services. Norway. International Drug Public Policies. Alejandro Mohar Betancourt. Member. International Narcotics Control Board. Alexandra Hill. Chief. Demand Reduction Section. Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission. Organization of American States. Drug Public Policies in the Americas. Esbjörn Hörnberg. Chair. Civil Society Task Force on Drugs Steering Group. UNGASS Key Priorities for the Civil Society Towards UNGASS :00-14:30 BREAK 14:30 16:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session 1 ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IMPACT Hall: Diego Rivera Jose Angel Prado Garcia, Operations and Board Deputy General-Director. Centros de Integracion Juvenil. Mexico. Alcohol Consumption Impact. Guillermina Natera Rey. Director of Epidemiological and Psychosocial Research. National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz. Mexico. Early 2

3 Detection of Alcohol and Drugs Consumption in Primary Health Care: A Possible Model for Public Policy. Kristina Sperkova. President. IOGT International. Alcohol as an Obstacle to Personal and Societal Development. Víctor Manuel Guisa Cruz. Normative General-Director. National Comission Against Addictions. Mexico. Alcohol, a Public Health Problem. Ricardo Ivan Nanni Alvarado. President. Mexican Central of General Services of Alcoholics Anonymous. Mexico. AA Assistance to Reduce the Impact of Alcohol Consumption Session 2 SUCCESSFUL PRACTICES IN PREVENTION Hall: David Alfaro Siqueiros Alejandro Sanchez Guerrero. Prevention Director. Centros de Integracion Juvenil. Mexico. Prevention Program Based on Promoting Prosocial Skills in Adolescence. A Contribution to a Sustainable Human Development. Gabriela Richard Rodríguez, Director. Pro Health Foundation. Argentina. Contributions of the Comprehensive Health Model to 3

4 the Effectiveness of Prevention Programs. Derya Akyilmaz. Education Department Chief. Green Crescent (Türkiye Yeşilay Cemiyeti).Turkey. Training Program on Addiction Prevention of Turkey (TBM). Sue Thau. Public Policy Consultant. Anti-Drug Community Coalitions of America. United States. Successful Prevention Practices. Session 3 CANNABIS, THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEGALIZATION AND DECRIMINALIZATION AND ITS IMPACT ON SOCIETY Erik Leijonmarck. General Secretary. European Cities Action Network for Drug-Free Societies. Sweden. Jeffrey Zinsmeister. Executive Vice President and Director of Government Relations. Smart Approaches to Marijuana. United States. What Would a Legalized Marijuana Industry Look Like? Trends from Colorado and Washington Experiences. Bertha K. Madras. Professor of Psychobiology. Harvard Medical School. United States. Cannabis, Medicine, and the Law. Asia Shraf. Director of Rehabilitation. Sunny Trust International. Pakistan. Legalization and 4

5 Decriminalization of Cannabis Not an Option for Pakistan? Eduardo Santillan Perez. Former Deputy. Mexico. Oscar Prospero Garcia. Researcher. Physiology Department. National Autonomous University of Mexico. Mexico. Session 4 DIMENSION AND DAMAGES OF TOBACCO CONSUMPTION Hall: Rufino Tamayo Jaime Quintanilla Bendek. Research and Teaching Director. Centros de Integracion Juvenil. Mexico. Francisco Javier Lopez-Espino y de Antuñano. President. Alianza contra el tabaco, A.C. Mexico. Tobacco: A Global Threat of Non- Communicable Diseases (NCDs). Luz Myriam Reynales Shigematsu. Head of the Tobacco Research Department. National Institute of Public Health. Mexico. Dimension and Damages of Tobacco Consumption in Mexico. Raúl H. Sansores Martinez. Head of Smoking and COPD Research Department. National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER). Mexico. The Impact of a Brief Advice to Quit Smoking. 5

6 Session 5 PREVENTION AND TREATMENT IN THE LAW SYSTEM Hall: Jose Clemente Orozco Gerardo Laveaga Rendon. Director-General of Crime Prevention and Community Services. Office of the Attorney General. Mexico. Ángel Manuel Turbi Pinazo. Professor. San Vicente Martir Catholic University. Valencia, Spain. Reasons for Relapses in Female Inmates in Spanish Prisons, a Gender Perspective. Julius Lang. Training and Technical Assistance Director. Center for Court Innovation. United States. Court-Based Models for Linking Offenders to Treatment. Robert Teltzrow. Project Manager of Drugs in Prison Programs. Cooperation Group to Combat Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Drugs (Pompidou Group). "Drug Treatment Systems in European Prisons. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH POSTERS Lobby VOLUNTEERISM POSTERS Lobby 6

7 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5 TH 9:00-10:30 10:30 12:00 PANEL: DRUG USE IN DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE WORLD Thom Browne. President and CEO. Rubicon Global Enterprises. United States. Emerging Public Health Implications from Illicit Drug Use. Jorge Ameth Villatoro Velazquez. Coordinator of the Survey Unit. National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente Muñiz. Mexico. The Paths of Drug Use in Mexico among Young People. Savas Yilmaz. General-Director. Green Crescent (Türkiye Yeşilay Cemiyeti). Turkey. National Drug Policy of Turkey. Eunice Rendon Cardenas. General-Director of Inter-secretariat Coordination. Deputy Secretariat for Prevention and Citizen Participation. Ministry of the Interior. Mexico. Victor Lye. Chairman. National Council Against Drug Abuse. Singapore. PANEL: COMORBIDITY ON CANNABIS USERS Rodrigo Marin Navarrete. Principal Investigator and Coordinator of the Addictions and Mental Health Clinical Trials Unit. National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente Muñiz. Mexico. Comorbidity between Cannabis Use Disorder and Other Psychiatric Disorders. Carlos Roncero Alonso. Vice-Secretary. Spanish Society of Dual Pathology. Spain. Comprehensive Treatment for Cannabis Users-Patients with Dual Pathology. Ihsan Salloum. Researcher of the Project Florida Node Alliance. National Network of Clinical Trials for the Treatment of Substance Abuse. University of Miami. United States. Marijuana Use Disorder and Major Depression Comorbidity: Causal Effects and Treatment Response. Oscar Prospero Garcia. Researcher. Physiology Department. National Autonomous University of Mexico. Mexico. Genetic Basis of Cannabis Dependence and its Correlation to Other Mental Disorders. 7

8 12:00-13:30 13:30-15:00 PANEL: FUTURE DRUG POLICIES Linda Nilsson. General Secretary. World Federation Against Drugs. Priorities of WFAD Members for the Future of Drug Policies. Jeffrey Zinsmeister. Executive Vice President and Director of Government Relations. Smart Approaches to Marijuana. U.S. Embassy in Mexico. United States. Saul Takahashi. Deputy Head of Office. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Bertha K. Madras. Professor of Psychobiology. Harvard Medical School. United States. The Cannabis-Opioid Connection. Erik Leijonmarck. General Secretary. European Cities Action Network for Drug-Free Societies. Sweden. PANEL: YOUTH AND ADDICTION PREVENTION Carmen Fernandez Caceres. General-Director. Centros de Integracion Juvenil. Mexico. Hector Fernandez Varela Mejia. Director. Medical Services. National Autonomous University of Mexico. Mexico. Addiction Prevention Networks in Student Communities. General Arthur T. Dean. Chairman and CEO. Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America. United States. Youth and Addiction Prevention. Alejandra del Pilar Sandoval Salas. Deputy General-Director. Welfare and Youth Services. Mexican Youth Institute. Mexico. Jose Maria Lopez Landiribar. Director of the Psychology Department. Anahuac University. Mexico. Identification of Risk Factors for Drug Use: Domestic Violence. Salvador Vega y Leon. Dean. Metropolitan Autonomous University. Mexico. Juan Eulogio Guerra Liera. Dean. Autonomous University of Sinaloa. Mexico. 8

9 15:00 16:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session 1 RISK AND VULNERABILITY FACTORS: FROM BIOLOGICAL TO SOCIAL ASPECTS Alfredo Nateras Dominguez. Research Professor. Metropolitan Autonomous University. Mexico. On the Edge of Consumption: Social Uses in the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Barrio 18 Gang (B-18). Linda Bucay Harari. Research Assistant. National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente Muñiz. México. Temperament and Character in Substance Abuse Consumers. Martha Romero Mendoza. Medical Sciences Researcher. National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente Muñiz. Mexico. Substance Abuse Disorders: Are Women More Vulnerable? Ricardo Sanchez Huesca, Normative Deputy General- Director. Centros de Integracion Juvenil. Mexico. An Approach to a Vulnerable Population: Central American Undocumented Immigrants. 9

10 Session 2 THE CHALLENGE OF ADDICTION PREVENTION Session 3 SUCCESSFUL PRACTICES IN TREATMENT Hall: Diego Rivera Sandra Ortiz Avila. Head of the Community Mobilization Department. Centros de Integracion Juvenil. Mexico. Virtual Promoters of Addiction Prevention. Javier Cordova. President. The Kantoriano Group, Drug Policy and Education for the 21 st Century. United States. Addiction Prevention: Challenges and Confrontations. Maribel Mendoza Rivera. Specialized psychologist. Centros de Integracion Juvenil. Mexico. Drug Use Prevention at an Early Age. Bruno Diaz Negrete. Head of Research. Centros de Integracion Juvenil. Mexico. Rafael Camacho Solis. General- Director. Institute of Addiction Assistance and Prevention in Mexico City. Mexico. The Value of Trust in the Training of Teenagers. Hall: David Alfaro Siqueiros Laura Margarita Leon Leon. Director of Treatment and Rehabilitation. Centros de Integracion Juvenil. Mexico. Comprehensive Treatment for Heroin Users, a Challenge. 10

11 Jean M. LaCour, President. NET Institute Center for Addiction and Recovery Education. United States. The Power of Social Support in Clinical Addiction Treatment. Raul Martin del Campo Sánchez. General-Director of Attention and Treatment. National Commission Against Addictions. Mexico. Public Policies on Addiction Treatment. Laura Soubran Ortega. Deputy Director of Outpatients. Centros de Integración Juvenil. Mexico. Session 4 COMMUNITY NETWORKS Hall: Jose Clemente Orozco Nora Frias Melgoza. General- Director of Coordination, Prevention and International Cooperation. National Comission Against Addictions. Mexico. Beatriz Leon Parra. Chief of the Department of Preventive Model and Technologies. Centros de Integracion Juvenil. Mexico. Citizen Participation: Community Networks Empowerment and Training in Drug Abuse Prevention. J. Eric Siervo. Vice President. International Programs. Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of 11

12 America. United States. Community Networks. Arnulfo L Gamiz Matuk. Director. Anahuac University Institute of Public Health. Mexico. Social Benefit Actions as a Means to Anticipate a Public Health Addiction Problem. Nora Gallegos Vazquez. General Coordinator. Community Coallition Network. Mexico. The Experience of the Mexican Network of Community Coalitions. Roberto Esteban Moro. Deputy Secretary of Mental Health and Addictions. Ministry of Health. La Pampa, Argentina. Drugs Public Policy in La Pampa. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH POSTERS Lobby VOLUNTEERISM POSTERS Lobby 12

13 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 TH 9:00 10:00 10:00-12:00 PANEL: INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SUBSTANCE USE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT PROFESSIONALS (ISSUP) Brian A. Morales. Chief of the Criminal Justice Division. Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), U.S. Department of State. United States. ISSUP and the Professionalization on the Demand Reduction Field. Tay Bian How. Director. International Centre for Certification and Education of Addiction Professional (ICCE). The Colombo Plan Secretariat. Professionalizing the Drug Demand Reduction Workforce. PANEL: ADDICTION IMPACT ON HEALTH IN MEXICO Carmen Fernandez Caceres. General-Director. Centros de Integracion Juvenil. Mexico. Maria Elena Medina-Mora Icaza. General-Director and Member of the National College. National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente Muñiz Mexico. Access to Palliative Care and Pain Control: the Contribution of Addiction Specialists. Jorge Salas Hernandez. General-Director. National Institute of Respiratory Diseases Ismael Cosio Villegas. Mexico. The Harmful Effects of Addictions in the Respiratory System. David Kershenobich Stalnikowitz. General-Director. National Institute of Nutrition and Medical Sciences Salvador Zubiran. Mexico. Antelmo Abelardo Meneses Garcia. General-Director. National Institute of Cancer Research. Mexico. 13

14 12:00-14:00 14:00 15:00 PANEL: CONTRIBUTIONS TO DRUG PUBLIC POLICIES ON ROAD TO UNGASS 2016 Alejandro Vassilaqui. Executive Director. Information and Education Center to Prevent Drug Abuse. Peru. Legalize Drugs and a Universal Addiction Epidemic Will Continue. Sven-Olov Carlsson. International President. World Federation Against Drugs. A Comprehensive Drug Policy. Maria Eugenia Mata Chavarria. Head of Prevention Projects Unit. Costa Rican Drug Institute. Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission, Organization of American States. Costa Rica Looking at UNGASS 2016: The Country Position Regarding the New Challenges in Drug Public Policy. Linda Nilsson. Secretary General. World Federation Against Drugs. Kevin Sabet. President and Director. Smart Approaches to Marijuana. United States. Carmen Fernandez Caceres. General-Director. Centros de Integracion Juvenil. Mexico. CLOSING CEREMONY 14

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