Zurich Dialogue

Zurich Dialogue:
Challenges, concepts,
and controversies in
addiction
Dear Colleagues,
Although science and clinical experience have created
a wealth of tools and richness of materials in our current
intellectual environment this is often stored in little boxes
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of specialization, protected through walls of ignorance. We
want to open these boxes with the help of the best minds
in the field. We want to understand what future concepts
may look like, what controversies could inspire the coming
generation of clinicians and researchers in their struggle for
better care in the field of addiction. The current discussion
on a new classification and underlying models of addiction is
a brilliant starting point.
Ambros Uchtenhagen
Ruedi Stohler
April 12 & 13 2011
Zurich, Switzerland
Michael Krausz
Overview
The congress will address the following questions
Day 1 - April 12th
8:30 - 9:30
Registration
9:30 - 10:00
Is it worth the money? Treatment under a cost
perspective, is the focus on intensive user ethical? What
tells health economy on the value of the system of care?
Christine Godfrey (London) - Invited
10:00 - 10:30
Does legalization decrease use? Cannabis epidemiology
reated to drug policy?
Ambros Uchtenhagen (Zuerich)
10:30 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 11:30
How can epidemiology help in political decisions
making?
Brian Rush (Toronto)
11:30 - 12:00
why doesn’t every country have a crack epidemic cultural and social determinants of addiction?
D. Hedrich (Lisbon) - Invited
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00- 14:30
Can addiction medicine abandon sociology?
Tim Rhodes (London) - Invited
14:30 - 15:00
Beyond the abstinence paradigm - is modetate use of
psuchotropic substances the alternative?
Ruedi Stohler (Zuerich)
15:00 - 15:30
Break
15:30 - 16:00
The stigmatized minotiy, why do addicts not get the
treatment for HIV and HCV they need?
Markus Backmund (Munich)
16:00 - 16:30
Time for accountability for the war on drugs
proponents.
Ernest Drucker (New York)
16:30 - 17:00
Discussion
1) What epidemiology do we use? - Guidance in policy
decision-making?
2) Challenges for a theory of addiciton? - Which aspects need
to be reconsidered?
3)DSM IV and ICD-11 - is classification reflecting reality?
4) Addiction research- Driven through models or limited
through methods?
5) Systematic Change and/or system change - framework and
deliveries for the future of care?
Day 2 - April 13th
9:30 - 10:00
The trouble with drink: why ideas matter
Griffith Edwards (London) - Invited
10:00 - 10:30
What drives change to ICD-10 and DSM-IV?
Thomas McLellan (Philadelphia)
10:30 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 11:30
Addiction and dependence - Is the paradigm shift
helping patients?
Wayne Hall (Melbourne)
11:30 - 12:00
Strength and limitations of the “brain disease” model
of addiction
Andreas Heinz (Berlin)
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:00
Evidence or eminence-based
Daniel Meili (Zuerich)
14:00 - 14:30
Are epigenetics inducing a paradigm shift regarding
the interaction of biology and enviroment?
Anthony Phillips (Vancouver)
14:30 - 15:00
Addiction and Trauma - a catalytic relationship?
Michael Krausz (Vancouver)
15:00 - 15:30
Systematic change and/or system change - which
standards at the system level?
Gerard Schippers (Amsterdam)
15:30 - 16:00
Break
16:00 - 16:30
Ways to integrate harm reduction (harm reduction
psychotherapy)
Heino Stoever (Frankfurt)
16:30 - 17:00
Discussion and Farewell address
Speakers List
Markus.Backmund@p-i-t.info (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich)
w.hall@imb.uq.edu.au (University of Melbourne)
Dagar.Hedrich@emcdda.europa.eu (European Monitoring Centre)
Andreas.Heinz@charite.de (Charite, Berlin)
M.Krausz@Mac.com (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
aphillips@psych.ubc.ca (University of British Columbia)
tim.rhodes@lshtm.ac.uk (University of London)
Brian_Rush@camh.net (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto)
schippers@aiar.nl (Amsterdam Institute of Addiction Research)
rudolf.stohler@puk.zh.ch (University Zurich)
hstoever@fb4.fh-frankfurt.de (Fachhochschule Frankfurt)
Uchtenhagen@isgf.uzh.ch (Institute for Addiction and Health Research)
Conference details & Accommodation
Conference location: The conference will be held at CrownePlaza Hotel in Zurich.
Crowne-Plaza Hotel
Badenerstr. 420
8004 Zürich
www.CrownePlaza.com
Accommodation:
If you require accommodation during the conference Rooms are
available at the Crowne-Plaza Hotel. Room Rate is CHF 288. per night, for a standard business room.
For more information contact:
Käthi Muster / Gaby Hintermann
Zentrum für Abhängigkeitserkrankungen
Selnaustrasse 9, 8001 Zürich
Tel. +41 44 205 58 00 / Fax +41 44 205 58 02
zurich.dialogue@puk.zh.ch
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