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Harm Reduction Coalition Training: The Practice of Harm Reduction with Dually-diagnosed Clients: Substance Use & Mental Illness

Beginning with an overview of mental disorders, this workshop will focus specifically on clients with co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse. This workshop will emphasize the application of harm reduction principles in identification and intervention along a continuum of risk. The training will also guide service providers in determining effective harm reduction responses that are attentive to the realities of clients' lives, provider skill level, and agency mandate.
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Harm Reduction Coalition Training: Pregnant and Parenting Drug Using Women - The Power of Image & Judgement in Our Work

The image of the pregnant and parenting drug-using woman has been used for many purposes in our society. Those images actually serve to hurt the women and families that many of us work to support. This can also cause us to carry our own prejudices that can hinder our own best practices and bring about personal stress in our places of employment. This workshop will examine those images, our own prejudices, and we will begin to look at some solutions to avoid buying into common myths and personal beliefs (sometimes from our own histories). By doing this examination, we can better assist women who are struggling with drug use while being pregnant and/or parenting. This workshop will also look at the broader policy implications that focus on supporting pregnant drug-using women instead of criminalizing or shaming their behavior.
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2007 International Drug Policy Reform Conference

The International Drug Policy Reform Conference is the world's principal gathering of people who believe the war on drugs is doing more harm than good. No better opportunity exists to learn about drug policy and to strategize and mobilize for reform.

In The Trenches

Marijuana policy at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference

[Courtesy of MPP] 

I hope I’ll see you at the 2007 International Drug Policy Reform Conference in New Orleans next week! MPP is a co-host of the conference, which is run by the Drug Policy Alliance.

Following is a brief listing of marijuana policy reform sessions at the conference. Please visit the conference Web site for detailed descriptions and presenters.

Thursday, December 6
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Reefer Madness: Cannabis Law Enforcement Around the U.S.

Friday, December 7
9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Marijuana & Health

2:30 - 4:00 pm
Medical Marijuana Implementation State-to-State

4:30 - 6:00 pm
National Marijuana Policy: New Directions

Saturday, December 8
10:00 - 11:30 am
Northern Exposure: Cutting-Edge Medical Cannabis Research and Legal Reform in Canada

12:00 - 1:30 pm
The DEA War on Medical Marijuana

I and many others from the MPP staff will be in attendance, and we are looking forward to seeing you there.

Sincerely,

Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.

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