Date: Thursday 24 June 2010
Time: 9am – 5.30pm
Venue: National Library of Australia, Parkes Pl, Parkes
Registration: Download the Conference Registration Form. Please note that places are limited.
For more information download the Conference Program.
It has for a long time been known that the licit substances alcohol and tobacco cause some of the greatest burdens of harm in our community. This has underpinned our policy, programs and practices in the ACT and across Australia.
However there is emerging evidence that the burdens of harm due to illicit substance use, and societal responses to such use, are increasing and may be approaching the burdens of harm from alcohol.
In light of the significant investment made to prevent alcohol related harm at both a National and Territory level in Australia, what might be some of the implications of this emerging evidence? What if the burdens of harm were similar between alcohol and illicit drugs? What would this mean for the policy, planning and delivery of our services? What implications might it have for tobacco policy as well?
The Third Annual ACT Alcohol and Other Drug Sector Conference will seek to explore these ideas through presenting the evidence and engaging the sector, and allied stakeholders, in discussing implications and strategies for our work.
The ACT Alcohol and Other Drug Sector Project, auspiced by the Youth Coalition of the ACT, in collaboration with the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Association of the ACT (the new peak body) and the ACT Drug Action Week Planning Group, will be hosting the Third Annual ACT Alcohol and Other Drug Sector Conference, All Things Being Equal: Exploring the Burdens of Harm, on Thursday 24 June 2010 as part of Drug Action Week.
The conference is targeted at workers from the alcohol and other drug and allied sectors including the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, police and criminal justice, housing and homelessness, mental health, youth, and broader health and community sectors. It is expected that 100 people from both non-government and government services will participate.
Both presenters and participants will work together to better understand the conceptual underpinnings and types of “burdens” and “harms”; and the implications for our policy and practice in the ACT.
First Annual ACT AOD Sector Conference: Alcohol: Past, Present and Future
Ben Frommel
AOD Sector Project Officer
(02) 6247 3540
conference@aodsector.org.au