Themes

CASINO BELLEVUE - BIARRITZ

The main themes:

1 - Addictions

• Neurobiology of addictions and cerebral neuro imagery: recent developments and perspectives
• Pharmacological therapeutics
• Opiate Substitution Treatments (OST): what are the perspectives concerning galenics, accessibility, safety and efficiency?
• Abstinence maintenance treatments  (cocaine, tobacco, alcohol, cannabis …)
• Contribution of pharmacogenetics
• Relationships between access to opiate substitution treatment and OST
• Non pharmacological therapeutics
• Psychoanalysis
• Motivational and cognitive-behavioral therapies
• Community-based therapies
• Addictions and psychiatric comorbidities
• From DSM-IV to DSM-V
• Dual diseases (addiction + associated psychiatric disease)
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Bipolar disorder
• Schizophrenia
• Anxiety disorder

• Substances dependence: developments and perspectives
• Opiates
• Major psychostimulants: cocaine, amphetamines …
• Ecstasy and synthesis drugs
• Cannabis
• Tobacco
• Alcohol
• Addiction and pregnancy
• Addictions and adolescence
• Addictions and precarious populations
• Addiction and prisons
• Addictions without substances
• Gambling
• Cyberdependence
• Eating disorders
• Sexual addiction
• Sport, doping and addictions
• Addictive behavior prevention and evaluation
  
  

2 - Prevention and treatment of coinfectious diseases (HIV, HCV and HBV)

• HIV and substance use disorders
• Fundamental research
• Clinical research
• New diagnosis tools: fast tests etc.
• HIV epidemiology among substances users
• Hepatitis, HIV and addiction in southern and eastern countries (especially Africa, in partnership with IMEA)
• HIV and women
• HIV and HCV coinfections
• Hepatitis and substance use disorder
• Fundamental research
• Clinical research and therapeutic trials
• Non invasive diagnosis tools of liver stiffness
• HCV treatment and psychiatric disorders
• HCV epidemiology among substance users
  
  

3 - Harm reduction and drug policy

• Drug consumption rooms (IV, smoking and sniffing ways):  feasibility and evaluation of the public health and society impact)
• Clinical trials with heroin
• Harm reduction in festive places
• Experiences of inter associative or transboarder cooperation
• Rights of substances users
• Therapeutic education
  
  

Here are some of the incoming speakers, international addiction, AIDS and HCV specialists :

Mary Jeanne Kreek (Bethesda), Charles O’Brien (Philadelphie), Julio Montaner (Vancouver), actuel président de l’International AIDS Society, Jacques Normand (Bethesda), Directeur du AIDS Research Program du NIDA, Herbert Kleber (New York), Patrizia Carrieri (Marseille), David Metzger, Philippe Bourgois (San Fransisco), Michael Gossop (Londres), Christian Trepo (Lyon), Victor de Ledinghen (Bordeaux), Gabriella Fischer (Vienne), Jean-Michel Costes (Paris), Miguel Casas (Barcelone), Marina Croquette Krokar (Genève), Marc Reisinger (Bruxelles), Daniel Zulaika (Madrid), Jean-Luc Venisse (Nantes), Joël Swendsen (Bordeaux), Pierre-Marie Girard (Paris), Aimé Charles Nicolas (Fort de France), Wim Van Den Brink (Amsterdam), Icro Maremmani (Pise), José Perez de los Cobos (Barcelone), José Martinez Raga (Valence), Jean-Pol Tassin (Paris), Ambros Uchtenhagen (Zurich), Marc Auriacombe (Bordeaux), Martha Torrens (Barcelone) …