Conference Agenda

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

• 1:00 - 5:00 pm LEAP Meeting, Open to All Attendees
• 6:00 – 8:00 pm Early registration
• 7:00 – 9:00 pm Opening reception

Thursday, December 6, 2007

• 7:30 – 8:30 am Yoga
• 8:00 – 9:00 am Open AA Meeting
• 8:30 – 9:30 am Registration/Continental Breakfast Provided
• 9:30 – 10:45 am Plenary
• 11:00 - 10:00 pm Video Story Booth
• 11:00 – 12:30 pm  Breakout Sessions
  • Physically, Mentally, Emotionally Better: Psychedelics as Healing Agents
  • Not the Usual Suspects: Working with Law Enforcement to Improve Drug Policy and Services

  • Understanding Methamphetamine

  • Recovery Advocacy and Drug Policy Reform: Can't We All Just Get Along?

  • How to Design and Implement an Opioid Overdose Prevention Program

  • Drug Cultures in Post-Katrina New Orleans: Implications for Harm Reduction
• 12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch (Provided) and Keynote session with Antonio Maria Costa and Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch
• 1:30 – 3:00 pm Breakout Sessions

  • Question and Answers: Follow up to Keynote Session with Antonio Maria Costa and Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch

  • The Hidden Histories of Harm Reduction

  • No Child Left Untested?: Fighting Back Against Random Student Drug Testing

  • Drug Warriors Against the War

  • Anti-racist Organizing to End the War on Drugs 

  • Pregnant Women: Another Casualty of the Drug War

  • Reefer Madness: Cannabis Law Enforcement Around the U.S.

• 3:30 – 5:00 pm Breakout Sessions

  • A Diamond in the Rough or a Model for Change? One City's Experiment in Taking on Racially-Biased Drug Enforcement

  • Creating an Effective Advocacy Campaign

  • Post-Katrina, Can New Orleans Afford to Keep Fighting the Failed "War on Drugs?"

  • Mexican Trends in Drug Policy and Public Opinion

  • Evidence, Emotions and Ideology: Lessons for Drug Policy Reform from the Vexed Politics of Needle Exchange

  • Tobacco: the New Most Dangerous Drug?

• 5:00 – 6:00 pm Matchmaker! Sex Work Organizations and Syringe Exchange Program meeting, Open to All Conference Attendees
• 5:00 - 6:45 pm ACLU Networking and Roundtable Meeting - ACLU Staff Only
• 5:30 - 6:30 pm Dream About A Refer 5 Feet Long: 50 Years of Marijuana in Music, Networking with John Morgan
• 5:30 - 6:30 pm Grassroots Organizing
• 5:30 - 7:30 pm Women, the Drug War, and the Drug Policy Reform Movement: Uniting for Change
• 5:30 - 7:30 pm Harm Reduction Town Hall Meeting
• 6:00 – 7:00 pm Open NA Meeting
• 6:30– 8:00 pm DPA Member Reception - DPA Members Only
• 7:00 – 9:00 pm Students for Sensible Drug Policy Congress - SSDP Members Only
• 7:30 - 11:00 pm Film Festival: New Orleans Justice, Waiting to Inhale and American Drug War

Friday, December 7, 2007

• 7:30 – 8:30 am Yoga
• 8:00 – 9:00 am Open AA Meeting
• 8:30 – 9:30 am Continental Breakfast Provided
• 9:30 – 11:00 am Breakout Sessions
  • Diversion for Non Addicts?

  • Prescribing Heroin  

  • Marijuana & Health

  • Beyond Zero Tolerance: Experience It for Yourself
  • Understanding and Preventing Opioid Poisoning: a National Perspective
  • Building Momentum in Congress
• 11:00 - 10:00 pm Video Story Booth
• 11:30 – 1:00 pm Plenary

  • Black America: the Debate Within

• 1:00 – 2:30 pm Lunch on Own
• 2:30 – 4:00 pm Breakout Sessions

  • Harm Reduction Goes to College: Is it Time to Lower the Drinking Age?

  • Collateral Damage: Immigrants and the War on Drugs

  • Medical Marijuana Implementation State-to-State

  • IBOGAINE - An Effective Therapy for Chemical Dependence 

  • Ban the Box: Winning Back the Right to Work

  • Drugs and Behavior 101: A Tool to Teach Critical Thinking Skills

• 4:30 – 6:00 pm Breakout Sessions

  • Harm Reduction Therapy: Clinical and Ethical issues in Practice

  • Against the Odds: Reversing the Personal and Cultural Impact of Incarceration

  • National Marijuana Policy: New Directions

  • Making the News: How to Get the Media to Cover Your Issue

  • Elevator Arguments
  • Dismantling the School-to-Jail Pipeline: Drug Policy Reform and Juvenile Justice
• 5:30 - 7:00 pm A Talk With Community Organizers from Louisana and the Gulf South
• 6:00 – 7:00 pm Open NA Meeting
• 6:30 – 8:30 pm Students for Sensible Drug Policy Congress - SSDP Members Only
• 6:30 – 8:00 pm Community Forum
• 7:30 - 11:00 pm Film Festival: Cocalero ($3 admission fee), The Holy Giveme, Psychedlic Research, Perversion of Justice and Damage Done: The Drug War Odyssey
• 8:00 - 9:30 pm California Focus: 2008 Initiave Briefing

Saturday, December 8, 2007

• 8:00 – 9:00 am Yoga
• 8:30 – 9:30 am Open AA Meeting
• 9:00 – 10:00 am Continental Breakfast Provided
• 10:00 – 11:30 am Breakout Sessions

  • Europe and Drug Policy Reform: Stepping Forward or Falling Back?

  • Northern Exposure: Cutting-Edge Medical Cannabis Research and Legal Reform in Canada

  • Integrating Harm Reduction into Public Systems

  • Faith, Action and Change: Mobilizing Religious Opposition to the Drug War

  • Integrating Hepatitis C for Outreach and Peer Programs

  • Bridging the Gap: Drug User Organizing
• 11:00 - 10:00 pm Video Story Booth
• 12:00 – 1:30 pm Breakout Sessions

  • To Snitch or Not to Snitch? Diverse Viewpoints on the Role of Informants in American Drug Law Enforcement

  • Fundraising: Getting to "Yes": How to Get a Positive Response From Foundations and Your Online Supporters 

  • The DEA War on Medical Marijuana

  • AIDS and Drug Policy in the South: Working Towards a New Bottom Line

  • Buprenorphine: Thinking Outside the Box

  • Campus Change Campaign: Colleges as Laboratories for Reform - Mandatory SSDP Member Attendance

  • UNGASS 08: the Failure to Create a “Drug-Free World”     

• 1:30 – 3:00 pm Lunch on Own
• 1:30 - 3:00 pm Grassroots Organizing with MPP in Louisiana
• 1:30 - 3:00 pm North American INPUD Meeting
• 1:30 - 3:00 pm Ancillary Meeting: The Racist Federal Crack and Powder Cocaine Disparity: What's Happening?
• 3:00 – 4:30 pm Breakout Sessions
  • Restoring Education: the Fight to Repeal the HEA Aid Elimination Penalty  Mandatory SSDP Member Attendance

  • Engaging with Law Enforcement: Prevention, Monitoring and Response

  • Beyond Prohibition: Describing a Drug War Exit Strategy

  • Confronting the U.S. War on Drugs in Latin America: Local and Regional Strategies

  • Working with Youth: In Policy, Programs, and the Decisions That Affect Their Lives
  • Public Safety and Drugs: A New Paradigm Called Justice
• 3:30 - 5:00 pm Transforming Power: Anti-Racist Organizing and Alliance Building
• 5:00 – 6:00 pm Plenary
• 7:00 – 8:00 pm Students for Sensible Drug Policy Awards
• 8:00 – 11:00 pm Drug Policy Alliance 2007 Awards Banquet (sponsored by the       Criminal Justice Policy Foundation)