Delivery Systems for

Substance Abuse Treatment

An International ConferenceIstanbul, Turkey

September 5-7, 2005

Sponsoring Organizations:USIP

UNODC, UCLASAMHSA, MERC, WHO, ISAM

Conference Overview

• 65 Substance Abuse experts gathered from 23 countries

• September 5-7, 2005 in Istanbul, Turkey• Conference Goals:

– Share information on the substance abuse challenges facing individual countries and broader regions

– Promote regional cooperation on substance abuse issues

– Discuss the integration of substance abuse treatment services with primary care, mental health, and social service systems in countries with developing systems

Steering Committee• Mohammed Afifi -

SARC/Palestine• Thomas Babor - UCHU/USA• Terry Chambers - ISAJE/USA• Gabriele Fischer - Medical

University of Vienna/Austria• Tarek M.S.A. Gawad -

ISAM/Cairo University/Egypt• Albert Hasson - UCLA/USA

Conference Manager• Richard Isralowitz - Ben Gurion

University/Israel• Nasser Loza – Behman

Hospital/ Egypt

• Vladimir Poznyak - WHO/Switzerland

• Solomon Rataemane - University of Limpopo/South Africa

• Richard Rawson - UCLA/USA Conference Co-Chair

• Jack Stein - NIDA/USA• Juana Tomas-Rossello -

UNODC/Vienna• Darren Urada - UCLA/USA

Conference Co-Chair

Co-Sponsoring Organizations

• United States Institute of Peace (USIP)• United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime

(UNODC)• University of California, Los Angeles (USA)• U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health

Services Administration (SAMHSA)• U.S. Agency for International Development’s

Middle East Cooperation (USAID/MERC)• U.S. National Institutes on Drug Abuse (NIDA)• World Health Organization (WHO)• International Society of Addiction Medicine

(ISAM)

• Africa– Kenya– Mauritius– Morocco– South

Africa– Uganda

• North America– United

States

• Europe– Austria– Finland– Spain– Switzerland– United

Kingdom– Russia– Slovak Republic– Slovenia– Ukraine

• Middle East– Egypt– Jordan– Iran– Iraq– Israel– Lebanon– Palestine

Authority– Turkey

Country Representation

General Themes

• Substance Abuse Delivery Systems – Past and Present (Rawson, Urada, Uchtenhagen)

• Integration of Substance Abuse with other Systems – Benefits and Challenges– Primary Care (Babor)– Mental Health (Grella)– Social Systems (Stenius)

General Themes

• Special Populations– Women (Mordecovitch)– Prisoners (Azarakhsch – Infectious Diseases (Farrell)– HIV/AIDS (Farrell, Azarakhsch)

• Economic Considerations (Weisner)• Current Pharmacotherapies

(Fischer, Elkashef)

• Research to Practice– SAMHSA (Mitchell/Curie)– UNODC (Tomas-Rossello)– NIDA (Stein)– UCLA (Rawson)

• Next Steps– Continuing and Future Joint Work– Information sharing

General Themes

Outcomes• DVD: “Drug Abuse Treatment and International

Cooperation” – Currently available

• Website: www.uclaisap.org/dssat/2005• UNODC and UCLA – TREATNET Capacity Building:

International Network of Drug Dependence Treatment and Rehabilitation Resource Centres

• Kenya and Israel – USAID: Cooperative Development Research Program (Under Review)

• UCLA and Kenya – Assessment of Drug Use and HIV in Kenya Prisons (Under Development)

• South Africa and USA – NIDA’s International Collaboration on Drug Addiction

• Initiated Regional data sharing among Middle Eastern, African, and European countries with the goal of forming Epidemiological Work Groups (REWGs)