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
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Understanding Methamphetamine
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Recovery Advocacy and Drug Policy Reform: Can't We All Just Get Along?
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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
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Question and Answers: Follow up to Keynote Session with Antonio Maria Costa and Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch
- The Hidden Histories of Harm Reduction
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No Child Left Untested?: Fighting Back Against Random Student Drug Testing
- Drug Warriors Against the War
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Anti-racist Organizing to End the War on Drugs
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Pregnant Women: Another Casualty of the Drug War
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Reefer Madness: Cannabis Law Enforcement Around the U.S.
- 3:30 – 5:00 pm Breakout Sessions
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A Diamond in the Rough or a Model for Change? One City's Experiment in Taking on Racially-Biased Drug Enforcement
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Creating an Effective Advocacy Campaign
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Post-Katrina, Can New Orleans Afford to Keep Fighting the Failed "War on Drugs?"
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Mexican Trends in Drug Policy and Public Opinion
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Evidence, Emotions and Ideology: Lessons for Drug Policy Reform from the Vexed Politics of Needle Exchange
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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?
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Prescribing Heroin
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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
- 1:00 – 2:30 pm Lunch on Own
- 2:30 – 4:00 pm Breakout Sessions
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Harm Reduction Goes to College: Is it Time to Lower the Drinking Age?
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Collateral Damage: Immigrants and the War on Drugs
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Medical Marijuana Implementation State-to-State
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IBOGAINE - An Effective Therapy for Chemical Dependence
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Ban the Box: Winning Back the Right to Work
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Drugs and Behavior 101: A Tool to Teach Critical Thinking Skills
- 4:30 – 6:00 pm Breakout Sessions
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Harm Reduction Therapy: Clinical and Ethical issues in Practice
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Against the Odds: Reversing the Personal and Cultural Impact of Incarceration
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National Marijuana Policy: New Directions
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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
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Europe and Drug Policy Reform: Stepping Forward or Falling Back?
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Northern Exposure: Cutting-Edge Medical Cannabis Research and Legal Reform in Canada
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Integrating Harm Reduction into Public Systems
- Faith, Action and Change: Mobilizing Religious Opposition to the Drug War
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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
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To Snitch or Not to Snitch? Diverse Viewpoints on the Role of Informants in American Drug Law Enforcement
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Fundraising: Getting to "Yes": How to Get a Positive Response From Foundations and Your Online Supporters
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The DEA War on Medical Marijuana
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AIDS and Drug Policy in the South: Working Towards a New Bottom Line
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Buprenorphine: Thinking Outside the Box
- Campus Change Campaign: Colleges as Laboratories for Reform - Mandatory SSDP Member Attendance
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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
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Engaging with Law Enforcement: Prevention, Monitoring and Response
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Beyond Prohibition: Describing a Drug War Exit Strategy
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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)