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Volume 25, Issue 1 | Spring 2005
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PAC Is Back!
AADAC's Professional Addictions Conference 2005From June 1 to 3 of this year, more than 500 professionals with an interest in addictions will gather in Edmonton for a three-day conference. PAC is AADAC's Professional Addictions Conference, which met with rave reviews at its sold-out inception in 2000. PAC's return in 2005, on the theme Insight Into Addiction, features an expanded agenda, touching on many aspects of substance and process addictions: prevention, treatment, physiology, addictions in the workplace, and the activities and substances of addiction themselves. In addition to over 70 concurrent sessions, the conference will feature a number of fascinating keynote speakers, four of whom will also contribute to the concurrent sessions. (See "PAC 2005 Presentations" below for a list of keynote addresses and concurrent sessions.) This issue of Developments highlights these featured speakers, all recognized leaders in the field of addictions: Anna White, Ken Minkoff, MD, H. Lee Gillis, PhD, Paul Roman, PhD, and Scott D. Miller, PhD. |
Anna WhiteAs a Fulbright Fellow in Senegal, Anna White researched the marketing strategies of transnational tobacco companies. Upon her return, she joined Global Partnerships for Tobacco Control, a program launched by Essential Action, based in Washington, D.C.
Kenneth Minkoff, MDDr. Kenneth Minkoff, MD, is a community psychiatrist and a leading expert on the integrated treatment of individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance disorders. Based on the idea that people with co-occurring disorders are a high-prevalence, poor outcome population, Dr. Minkoff developed an interest in the design of service systems to meet their varied needs. In 2000, he began consulting and training in this area full-time, and co-developed a tool kit for implementation, aimed at facilities with scarce resources.
H. L. "Lee" Gillis, PhDWorking at the Georgia College & State University, Dr. Lee Gillis is a licensed psychologist and professor of psychology with a sense of adventure. With a background in adventure-based therapy, he now works with treatment facility staff, helping them to come up with new activities and adapting current activities to various treatment goals. At PAC, he will be challenging the group on ways of using metaphors in activity and making them meaningful in a broader context. While he describes his work as being a lot of fun, he also insists that the therapy itself must be based on a principle of fun.
Paul Roman, PhDDr. Paul Roman is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Georgia, where he studies the organization and management of substance abuse treatment. He has also written about the opportunities presented by the workplace as a site for primary care intervention.
Scott D. Miller, PhDScott D. Miller, PhD, is a therapist and co-founder of the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change. His main message, which he delivers to audiences in workshops across the United States, Canada and abroad, is to focus on outcomes in treatment, and to use those outcomes to inform treatment.
PAC 2005 PresentationsIn addition to the keynote presentations, PAC 2005: Insight Into Addiction features over 70 engaging, information-packed sessions. Some of these presentations focus on specific populations: gay men in addiction treatment, women in treatment, people with fetal alcohol syndrome experiencing addiction issues in the workplace, and people with mental illnesses concurrent with addictions. Others are broader: highlights from the Canadian Addiction Survey, or the application of trend theory to addictions. Treatment topics include motivational interviewing in the workplace, family-centred treatment, intensive youth treatment, outreach treatment, psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatment of problem gambling, and many more. Prevention is also well represented, for example, in sessions that focus on awareness programs, mentorship, harm reduction, and an Alberta prevention strategy. Specific substances (for example, tobacco, crystal methamphetamine and alcohol) are discussed, as well as problem gambling and other process addictions, such as obsessive Internet use. See the full list of presentations
The Back PageOn The Back Page of Developments you can read about conferences, learning opportunities, special events, and recommended AADAC resources (always good and sometimes extraordinary value). If you want to advertise on The Back Page, contact the editor of Developments for rates and deadlines.
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