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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 97 15:08:14 EST

Subject: Lindesmith Drug Policy Seminars, Autumn 1997 (NEW LOCATION!)

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* THE LINDESMITH CENTER / OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE *

* HAS A NEW ADDRESS, PHONE, & FAX *

* 400 WEST 59th Street, New York, NY 10019 *

* Tel: 212.548.0695, Fax: 212.548.4677 *

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T H E L I N D E S M I T H C E N T E R

DRUG POLICY SEMINAR SERIES

Autumn 1997

Wednesday, November 5th, 4pm

Integrating Methadone Patients into Traditional Alcohol Treatment

Programs

Steven Kipnis, MD, FACP, and Richard Gelb, MA, describe the effective inclusion of methadone patients in traditional alcohol/chemical dependency treatment. Kipnis, Medical Director of the Blaisdell Alcohol Rehabilitation Center and Addiction Service at Nyack Hospital, and Gelb, Director of the Nyack Hospital Recovery Center, highlight the need for a shift in treatment philosophy from abstinence to harm reduction.

Tuesday, November 11th, 4pm

Codeine, Methadone, and Heroin: An Update on Opiate Maintenance

Programs in Europe

Michael Krausz, MD, Ph.D., head of research at the psychiatric clinic of the Eppendorf University Hospital in Hamburg, presents the results of two major prospective studies on methadone and codeine maintenance treatment in Germany. Krausz, Editor-in-Chief of European Addiction Research, also reports on European heroin prescription projects based on his experience as a member of the international expert boards.

Tuesday, November 18th, 1997, 4pm

Reaching Out to Crack Cocaine Users

Mark Kinzly, needle exchange coordinator for the City of Bridgeport

Department of Health, examines evolving efforts to provide harm

reduction services for users of crack cocaine. Kinzly, a founding

member of People of Color Harm Reduction Community Partnership,

details emerging trends among some users to inject crack cocaine.

Tuesday, December 9th, 1997, 4pm

Legal Strategies to Improve Syringe Availability

Hon. Lawrence Gostin, J.D., LL.D., and Scott Burris, J.D., analyze

strategies for improving access to drug injection equipment to reduce transmission of HIV/AIDS, including syringe exchange programs and deregulation of syringe sales. Gostin, Professor of Law and Co-Director at Georgetown/Johns Hopkins Program on Law and Public Health, and author of Human Rights and Public Health in the AIDS Pandemic (Oxford University Press, 1997), examines the legal and public health implications of restricting access to syringes and discusses his CDC/Carter Presidential report on injection drug users and HIV. Burris, Associate Professor of Law at Temple Law School and a lawyer for exchangers, assesses local law as a means of protecting syringe exchange programs and for furthering political change at the state and national levels.

Thursday, December 18th, 1997 4pm

Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice

Harry Levine, Ph.D., professor of sociology at Queens College, City University of New York, and Craig Reinarman, Ph.D., professor of sociology at University of California, Santa Cruz, discuss their book Crack in America (University of California Press, 1997).

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******** WE HAVE MOVED - NOTE NEW ADDRESS, PHONE, & FAX ********

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Seminars are held at the Open Society Institute, New York

400 West 59th Street (corner of 9th Avenue), 3rd Floor

All are welcome, but seating is limited.

Please call The Lindesmith Center at (212)548-0695

or email lbeniquez@sorosny.org to reserve a place.