Major Sessions

as by 2008-08-25, additional names and sessions T.B.A

Monday September 8
Mentor – Prevention, Opportunity and Protection around the World
Jeff Lee, Executive Director, Mentorfoundation, UK
Ramzi Naaman, executive director of Mentor Arabia. Lebanon
Dr. Ken Winters, University of Minnesota, Chair Mentor International Scientific Advisory Network, USA
Moderator Anna Carlstedt

Research on Alcohol and Drugs: What Do We Know and What Do We Not Know?
Harold D. Holder, Senior Research Scientist University of California, Berkeley, USA
Neil McKeganey, Professor at the Centre for Drug Misuse Research, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Moderator Gabriel Romanus

Abstinence Oriented Rehabilitation
Craig Nakken, author, lecturer, therapist, USA
Anastasia Agafonova, PR officer, International Treatment Preparedness Coalition in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Russia
Christer Karlsson, founder of KRIS, Criminals Return In Society, Sweden
Robert L. DuPont, MD, President Institute for Behaviour and Health, USA
Dr. Ehab El Kharrat MB BCh, MSc, PhD Executive Director, Freedom Drugs and HIV Programme, Egypt
Andrea Muccioli, lawyer and sociologist, head of San Patrignano Community, Italy
Moderator Kerstin Käll

Latin America – Production as well as Consumption of Drugs
Alejandro Vassilaqui, Executive Director CEDRO, Peru
Mina Seinfeld de Carakushansky, President of BRAHA – Brazilian Humanitarians in Action
Carlton Wilson, Senior Superintendent of Police, Narcotics Division, Kingston, Jamaica
Moderator Thomas Gustafsson

Asia Struggling against Drug Abuse
M.R. Disnadda Diskul, Secretary General Mae Fah Luang Foundation, Thailand
Siamak Khajeian, Branch Office Manager, NA Iran
Pubudu Sumanasekara, Executive Director of Alcohol and Drug Information Centre (ADIC), Sri Lanka
Moderator Esbjörn Hörnberg

Tuesday September 9
Can Afghanistan Get Rid of The Opium Problem?
Christina Oguz, UNODC Representative in Kabul, Sweden
General Khodaidad, Minister of Counter-narcotics, Afghanistan
Mohammad Shah Rauf, DACAAR, Saffron project, Afghanistan
Moderator Natasha Brieger

Is Britain Changing Foot about Cannabis?
Mary Brett, Retired Biology Teacher, Author and Eurad Board Member, UK
Theodore Dalrymple, author and psychiatrist, UK
Moderator Niklas Ekdal

Drugs and Traffic
Charles Mercier-Guyon, MD, Traffic Medicine Research Centre Annecy, France
Joël Valmain European Commission DG TREN - Road Safety Unit
Moderator Dag Endal

Drugs for Conflict
Svante Cornell, Reseach Director Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, Sweden
Sandro Calvani, Director UNICRI in Rome, Italy
Moderator Jonas Hartelius

The Dutch Drug Policy: Facts and Philosophy
Frans S.L. Koopmans, MA, director of communications for De Hoop Foundation
Andreas Kinneging, Professor of Law, University of Leiden, Netherlands
Moderator Pelle Olsson

Drugs on the Internet
Cecilia Fant, Detective inspector, National Crime Police, Sweden
Krister Gäfvert, Detective Inspector, National Criminal Police, Sweden
Daniel Altmeyer, Specialized Officerfor Drugs and Criminal Organizations, Interpol Lyon, Germany
Moderator Sofia Modigh

Wednesday September 10
Drugs in the Family
Tania Major, Criminologist, Project Officer at the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership. Australia
Tatiana Murtazina, teacher and mother who lost her daughter, S:t Petersburg, Russia.
Jonas Andersson, was imprisoned in Bolivia. His family helped him back to Sweden
Moderator Maria Söderberg

Drug Habit Surveys – How Can They Help Us with Prevention?
Björn Hibell, PhD. CAN Sweden
Karin Svanberg, PreCens, Stockholm Sweden
Eugenia Koshkina, Professor of Epidemiology, Moscow Russia
Moderator Ted Bergdahl

Cannabis and the Brain
Maria Ellgren, MD Karolinska Instiute, Sweden
Peter B Jones Professor of Psychiatry Cambridge University, UK
Moderator Robert L. DuPont

Africa Struggling Against Drug Abuse
Rogers Kasirye, Director of the Uganda Youth Agency, Uganda
David Basangwa, consultant psychiatrist at Butabika National Psychiatric hospital, Kampala, Uganda
Suleiman Arale, anti-khat acitivist, Sweden

Random Student Drug Testing
Robert L.DuPont, MD, President Institute for Behaviour and Health
Lisa Brady, Superintendent of Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, New Jersey, USA
Nils Lundin, M.D., Dipl PH, School Health Consultant, Helsingborg, Sweden
Moderator Staffan Hübinette

Youth and Drugs
Dr. Inga Dora Sigfusdottir, Dean of the School of Public Health and Education at the Reykjavik University, Iceland
Dr Nalan Engin, Istanbul, Turkey
Moderator Robert Damberg