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Friday, June 13, 2014
NIDA International Networking Session
- Reaching Out to Teens and Communities: NIDA’s National Drug Facts Week
Susan Weiss, Associate Director, NIDA - International Programs at the NIH
Joni Rutter, Division of Basic Neuroscience and Behavioral Research, NIDA - The NIDA Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowships: Past, Present, and Future—Celebrating 25 Years of International Education
- A Living Legacy: The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program After 35 Years
Judy Gibson, Institute of International Education - The NIDA-HHH Partnership: Internationalizing Drug Abuse Research
M. Patricia Needle, Former Director, International Program, NIDA
- A Living Legacy: The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program After 35 Years
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Marijuana: Global Policy and Research Update
- State of the Science on Marijuana’s Adverse Health Effects
Nora D. Volkow, Director, NIDA - Global Perspectives on Cannabis Policy, Research, and Knowledge Gaps
Jan Copeland, University of New South Wales, Australia - Cannabis an EU Perspective
Paul Griffiths, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) - Global Perspectives on Marijuana Policy, Research, and Knowledge Gaps: The United States
Priscillia Hunt, RAND Corporation - Cannabis Trends in the Americas
Paul E. Simons, Organization of American States
Updates on New Psychoactive Substances
- Update on European Union Developments in Trends on Drug Use With Special Focus on New Psychoactive Substances
Paul Griffiths, EMCDDA - The Italian National Action Plan on New Psychoactive Substances
Giovanni Serpelloni, National Early Warning System (N.E.W.S.), Italy - New Psychoactive Substances in the Americas and CICAD/UNODC Collaborative Effort in the Region
Marya Hynes, Organization of American States - Update on New Psychoactive Substance Use in North America
Jane C. Maxwell, The University of Texas at Austin
Breakout # 1 Advances in Addiction Research in Canada
- Addiction Treatment, Education in Research in a Canadian Centre
Bohdan Nosyk, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Simon Fraser University - Honoring Our Strengths: Culture as Intervention
Colleen Anne Dell, University of Saskatchewan - Treating Concurrent Mental Illness and Addiction: Understanding Treatment Failure and Improving Outcomes
Kathryn Gill, McGill University
Breakout #2 Vaccination for Addiction and AIDS
- NIDA’s AIDS Research Program
Jaques Normand, Director, AIDS Research Program, NIDA - Active Vaccination for Elimination (AV4E) of AIDS: Thinking Outside the Box
Zhiwei Chen, AIDS Institute of the University of Hong Kong
Breakout #3 Substance Use Treatments: Secondary Analyses Using the Clinical Trials Network (CTN) Datashare
- Overview of the CTN Datashare
Carmen Rosa, Center for Clinical Trials Network, NIDA - Practical Approaches for Using the CTN Datashare: Proposing Parameters, Creating Data Tables, and Analyzing Results
Abigail G. Matthews, The EMMES Corporation - Using the CTN Datashare: An Example Utilizing Data From Multiple Protocols
Audrey J. Brooks, University of Arizona - Secondary Analyses: Value and Limitations
Daniel J. Feaster, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Breakout #4 Advances in Treatment for Marijuana Dependence
- Advances in Treatment for Marijuana Dependence
Iván D. Montoya, Division of Pharmacotherapies and Medical Consequences of Drug Abuse, NIDA - Current Strategies in Treatment Of Cannabis Use Disorders
Aidan Hampson, Division of Pharmacotherapies and Medical Consequences of Drug Abuse, NIDA - Anxiolytic and Antipsychotic Effects of Cannabidiol
Francisco Guimaraes, Medical School of Ribeirao Preto, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil - Pharmacological Treatment of Cannabis Dependence
Barbara J. Mason, The Scripps Research Institute - Novel Targets for Medication Development for Cannabis Dependence
Aimee McRae-Clark, Medical University of South Carolina