Conference Presentations
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DAY 1
Martina Arazzini & Fiona Connally
ROCKET, Western Region Health Centre and MidWest Area Mental Health Service
KALEIDOSCOPE: Community and clinical services working together to provide integrated interventions for young people with a dual diagnosis
Nicky Bath
AIDS Council of NSW
Analyse This! Mental health, illicit drugs and the GLBT community.
Melissa Dent & Roxanna Sherry
HealthWorks, Western Region Health Centre
Taking a breather from the chaos: using relaxation techniques to improve mental health amongst street-based heroin injectors
Yvonne Devey
Youth Substance Abuse Service
The chicken and the egg- dealing with dual diagnosis in a youth residential program
Kay Dufty & Cheryl Delalande
Northern Division of General Practice, Melbourne and Darebin Community Health
Pharmacotherapy and better outcomes in mental health care initiative – Darebin Community Health and the Northern Division of General Practice working together
Brendan Fitzhenry
Community Reintegration Program, Salvation Army
The community reintegration program – a model for social wellbeing and connectedness
Danny Jeffcote
North Yarra Community Health
No wrong door in Next Door
Michael Lodge
NSW Users and AIDS Association
What makes me MAD: angry & insane, depressed, anxious & confused
Ron McCoy
Royal Australian College of GPs
Being there- psychiatrist liaison support for general practitioners caring for patients with substance use disorders
Sophie Morson
Royal Children’s Hospital and Health Service District QLD
A profile of substance use amongst young people presenting for mental health treatment: service identification of and response to youth dual diagnosis
Meriel Schultz
Australian General Practice Network
The ‘Can Do’ Initiative: Managing Mental Health and Substance Use in General Practice – a model for capacity building through multidisciplinary education and training
Stuart Stubbs
Sydney West Area Health Service
Keep your Head Together
Dr Carla Treloar & Martin Holt
National Centre in HIV Social Research
Complex vulnerabilities as barriers to treatment for illicit drug users with high prevalence mental health comorbidities
David Webb
Beware of Medical Solutions to Human Problems
Charl Van Wyk (NEAMI) and Robyn Humphries (Northern Area Mental Health Service)
Spotlight On Mental Health
Day 2
Tarra Adam & Bill Robertson
St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney and Stimulant Treatment Program, Hunter New England Area Health Service
The first recipe from Tweakers Kitchen
Nicole Allen & Jessica Davis
SUMITT
Working to enhance staff confidence and competence in addressing dual diagnosis within the Alcohol and Other Drug and Mental Health sectors.
Joanne Bryant & Max Hopwood
National Centre in HIV Social Research
Secondary exchange in south east Sydney: the unknown “reach” of needle and syringe distribution services
Dr Enrico Cementon
Consultant Psychiatrist, SUMITT
Interactions between drugs of abuse and psychotropic medications
Andrew Conroy
Queensland Health
The nature of severe injection related injury and disease in Australia and the potential for coordinated responses
Bill Couche
Homelessness and Drug Dependency Program
A ground breaking partnership addressing homelessness, drug dependency and mental health
Gary Croton
Eastern Hume Dual Diagnosis Service
Integrated treatment of co-occurring mental health & substance use disorders.
Prof Jon Currie
St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne
Pharmacological Treatments
Deli Baker Psychologists
Understanding & Managing Stress Arousal
Paul Dessauer
WA Substance Users Association
Methadone in my madness: Beyond chickens and eggs in dual diagnosis
Paul Dessauer
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Methamphetamine: but were too paranoid to ask...
Insp. Shane Doyle
Queensland Police
Preventing and responding to mental health crisis situations- A tri-agency partnership
Andrea Herman
Victorian Dual Diagnosis – Education and Training Unit
Bending over backwards – a flexible approach to professional development in dual diagnosis
Xavier Majó Roca
Trying to overcome inequity and discrimination in prison health: The syringe exchange experience in Catalonia and Spain.
Dr Tricia Nagel & Carolyn Thompson
Top End Mental Health Services
Yarning about mental health: an NT collaboration.
Heather Pickard
Victorian Nurses Health Program
Impacts of work stress on nurses in an often volatile environment – some strategies for self care advocated for at the VNHP
Miranda Manning & Samantha Ratnam
Odyssey House Victoria
The Eclipse Project- improving outcomes in mental health and substance use treatment.
Dr James Rowe
RMIT University
The Feel of Steel: Addressing the obsession to inject
Cheryl Sobczyk & Daniel Etheringham
Bendigo Community Health
Inter agency collaborative practice towards better service experience for dual diagnosis clients
Dr Ingrid Van Beek
Medically Supervised Injecting Centre
I suppose someone’s gotta do it – heavy work indeed
Dr Ruth Vine
Victorian Department of Human Services
Closing the Gap: Integration and Collaboration
Sally Walker
Victoria Police
Law Enforcement response to mental health issues among people who use illegal substances