METHADONE ADVOCACY

An Interview with Herman Joseph, and a look back on the last 40 years of Methadone Advocacy

Jan 26 '09, Podcast
(Audio mp3, 14.08 minutes)

HEROIN TRIALS: A Worldwide Historical Review and Canada's Latest Results

David Marsh, MD, Clinical Associate Professor from the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia
(Vancouver, Canada)

Dr. Marsh provides a retrospective of Heroin Trials conducted worldwide, followed by a presentation of the latest results of the Naomi Trials recently conducted in Vancouver and Montreal, Canada.


Download Jan 5 '09, Podcast
(Audio mp3, 22.18 minutes)

Aging of the Opiate Patient

Barbara Broers, MD is a primary care physician from the University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Broers treats patients suffering from drug addiction, and has noted the emerging challenges with the aging of this population. Many of the patients who are 45 years+ have health issues normally experienced by patients who are decades older.

Download Dec 2 '08, Podcast
(Audio mp3, 9.03 minutes)

Professor Kamarulzaman of Malaysia keynote speech at the 2008 International AIDS Conference (PODCAST)

Professor Adeeba Kamarulzaman received her undergraduate and postgraduate training in 'Medicine and Infectious Diseases' in Melbourne, Australia. In 1995, she returned to Malaysia to establish the 'Infectious Diseases Unit' at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Since then she has led the clinical and research development of infectious diseases and HIV/AIDS at the university and across Malaysia. Since 2004, Adeeba has been a member of the Malaysian AIDS Council's 'Malaysian Harm Reduction Working Group' and has played a pivotal role in advocating for harm reduction responses to HIV/AIDS amongst injecting drug users in Malaysia.
Download Aug 28 '08, Podcast
(Audio mp3, 12.42 minutes)

Dr. Melinda Campopiano, Discusses Opiate Addiction Treatment Using With Pittsburgh Residents

Dr. Campopiano highlights the challenges, opportunities and medicine behind treating those suffering from opiate addiction.

July 28 '08, Podcast (Audio mp3, 10:23 minutes)

Ukraine's Response to Opiate Addiction: a Senior Law Enforcement Official Changes Perspective

Pavlo Skala discusses his experiences as a senior law enforcement officer and how his perspective on treating addiction evolved and brought him to his current harm reduction work.

June 16 '08, Podcast (Audio mp3, 13:28 minutes)

A Patient Tells Her Story of Addiction

Melinda Campopiano, MD asked her 23 year old patient if she would share her story of addiction to a group of Pittsburgh family medicine residents in an effort for them to better understand how to treat addiction and get a sense of the patient's experience.

May 8, 2009
Audio:MP3 (18.20 minutes)

GERMANY: A Mother and an Advocate

Dorothea Kleiber recounts her son's struggle with heroin and the lack of addiction treatment and understanding at that time. Dorothea was an instrumental part in the creation of a successful advocacy movememt in Germany which forced positive change.

November 9, 2007
Audio:MP3 (10.44 minutes)

SWITZERLAND: An Innovative Approach to Treating Addiction

Dr. Robert Newman and Dr. Robert Hämmig, President of the Swiss Society of Addiction Medicine, met up in Ljubljana, Slovenia at the First World Conference on Medication Assisted Treatment of Opiate Addiction. There they discussed how Dr. Hämmig began in the field and how Switzerland arrived at its current treatment situation.

August 2, 2007
Audio:MP3 (12.42 minutes)

NORTH CAROLINA & SOUTHERN STATES: Harm Reduction Efforts

Nabarun Dasgupta, a graduate student at the Univ. of North Carolina School of Public Health and member of the board of the NC Harm Reduction Coalition, discusses the challenges and progress of harm reduction in the southern U.S.A.

July 12, 2007
Audio:MP3 (15.04 minutes)