Category: NCIDU 2010
NCIDU 2010 – Day Two – Adulteration of illicit drugs and Analysis of crack cocaine
| October 25, 2010 | Posted by Stacey under Blog, Drugs and Alcohol, Harm Reduction, NCIDU 2010 |
NCIDU 2010 – Day Two What do we know about the adulteration of illicit drugs? Claire Cole, Honorary Lecturer for Public Health Claire began by distinguishing between Adulterants, Contaminants and Dilutants. Adulterants – pharmacologically active ingredients Contaminants – by-products of manufacturing Dilutants – inert substances added to provide bulk There are perception and myths around…
NCIDU 2010 – Day Two – Twitter Ye Not and Martin Barnes on The New Administration
| October 25, 2010 | Posted by Stacey under Blog, Drugs and Alcohol, Harm Reduction, NCIDU 2010 |
NCIDU 2010 Day Two – October 8th 2010 Chair: Roweena Russell, Developer and Manager, Hiwecanhelp Twitter ye not – Nigel Brunsdon – Injecting Advice and Allison Downing – Simply Syndicated. Presented by my Twitter friends Nigel and Allison I didn’t really need to go to this as it was more around convincing other drug workers…
NCIDU 2010 – The Ballad of the Two Charlies and The Waiting Room
| October 13, 2010 | Posted by Stacey under Drugs and Alcohol, Harm Reduction, NCIDU 2010 |
NCIDU Day One Tales from the robber’s dog – The ballad of the two Charlies. Film, presentation and discussion session Michael Linnell, Director of Communications, Lifeline, Manchester I’m always on the look out for useful videos to show in training sessions. I have long been a fan of Lifeline Publications for their no nonsense approach…
NCIDU 2010 – Day One am – Involving Drug Dealers and More Than Steroids
| October 10, 2010 | Posted by Stacey under Blog, Drugs and Alcohol, Harm Reduction, NCIDU 2010 |
More from the NCIDU 2010… Day One – October 7th 2010 am These are purely the presentations I decided to go to listen to. You can see the full programme of speakers from Day One here. Chair: Jim McVeigh, Head of Substance Use, Centre for Public Health, Liverpool Moores University Gettting drug dealers involved in…
National Conference on Injecting Drug Use 2010
| October 9, 2010 | Posted by Stacey under Blog, Drugs and Alcohol, Facebook and Twitter, NCIDU 2010, People |
Thanks to winning the Hiwecanhelp competition I had the opportunity to attend the National Conference on Injecting Drug Use (NCIDU) at The Sage, Gateshead, Newcastle. The venue itself is pretty impressive. Overlooking the Tyne I resisted singing Fog on the Tyne on Day One but by Day Two it proved far too difficult for me…
