PROGRAMME

25th FEBRUARY 2009 - Recovery and mutual aid

David Best , Reader in Criminal Justice, University of the West of Scotland, Scotland;

Mapping routes to recovery: the role of recovery groups and communities

12.30-1.30 pm Colin Bell Common Room, University of Stirling

12.30-1.30 pm Colin Bell Common Room, University of Stirling

12.30-1.30 pm Colin Bell Common Room, University of Stirling

8th APRIL 2009 - Therapeutic communities and residential rehabilitation

Wendy Dawson , Chief Executive , Ley Community, England;

Residential treatment as a method of integration
(preceded by a showing of the BBC's acclaimed docu-drama REHAB)

12.30-4.30 pm Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling

30th JANUARY 2008 - Understanding Recovery and Treatment in the Overall Policy Context

Netta McIver, Chief Executive, Turning Point Scotland; former Assistant Director of Social Work, Western Isles, Scotland; and former Principal Officer Addictions/HIV, Strathclyde Region, Scotland with:

Sophia Young and Tracy Lundie.

Current issues in Scottish drug policy-gaps: in provision and the Scottish attitude to recovery

2.00-4.00 pm Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling (coffee & biscuits on arrival)

28th FEBRUARY 2008 - Substitute Prescribing and Integration with Other Treatments

Neil McKeganey, Professor of Drug Misuse Research; Director, Centre for Drug Misuse Research; and author of Beating the Dragon.

The loss of a recovery perspective in drug treatment and policy

2.00-4.00 pm Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling (coffee & biscuits on arrival)

26th MARCH 2008 - Residential Treatment and Mutual Help

George De Leon, Former Director, Center for Therapeutic Community Research, New York ; Former Director of Research, Phoenix House, New York ; and author/editor of The Therapeutic Community: theory, model and method and Community as Method.

The Therapeutic Community as a recovery oriented treatment pathway and the emergence of a recovery oriented integrated system

Peter McCann, Director, Castle Craig Hospital; Board Member, International Council of Alcohol and Addictions; former Director, Clouds House.

Residential rehabilitation and recovery (provisional title)

2.00-4.00 pm Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling (coffee & biscuits on arrival)

30th APRIL 2008 - Women in Recovery

Betsy Thom, Head of Social Policy Research Centre, Middlesex University ; Reader in Drug and Alcohol Studies; and editor of Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy.

Women in recovery

Jane Fountain, Professor of Substance Use Research and Lead Researcher, Centre for Ethnicity and Health, University of Central Lancashire.

Recovery and the experiences of black and minority ethnic drug users (provisional title)..

2.00-4.00 pm Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling (coffee & biscuits on arrival)

22nd MAY 2008 - Treatment and Recovery in the Criminal Justice System

Tim McSweeney, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Criminal Policy Research and author of The quasi-compulsory treatment of drug-dependent offenders in Europe. Final National Report – England.

Recovery, desistance and 'coerced' drug treatment

Alex Stevens, Senior Research Fellow at the European Institute of Social Services, University of Kent; lead researcher, QCT Europe project on treatment for drug dependent offenders; and former coordinator of the European Network of Drug and HIV/AIDS Services in Prisons.

Evidence and policy: crime and public health in UK drug policy

2.00-4.00 pm Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling (coffee & biscuits on arrival)

25th JUNE 2008 - Understanding Diversity and Recovery in a Historical Context

Griffith Edwards, Assistant Commissioning Editor, Addiction; former Director and founder of the National Addiction Centre, London ; former Editor-in-Chief, Addiction; and author of Alcohol: the world's favourite drug.

An historical perspective on recovery (provisional title).

Rowdy Yates & Margaret Malloch, Facilitators of the Pathways to Recovery seminar series. Prospective editors of Pathways to Recovery – based upon the seminar series.

Understanding recovery in a 21st Century context

2.00-4.00 pm Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling (coffee & biscuits on arrival)