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ADDICTION 2015
The Australian & New Zealand Addiction Conference
Outrigger Surfers Paradise,
Gold Coast
20 - 22 May 2015
Alcohol,
Other Drugs,
Behavioural Addictions:
Prevention, Treatment
and Recovery
The Australian & New Zealand Addiction Conference
Alcohol - Other Drugs - Behavioural Addictions: Prevention, Treatment & Recovery
20 – 22 May 2015, Outrigger Surfers Paradise
Wednesday 20 May 2015 - Optional Workshops
1.00 – 1.30pm
Registration
1.30 – 3.00pm
Workshop 1
Behavioural Addictions
Boulevard 1 Room
Workshop 2
Special Populations
Boulevard 2 Room
Workshop 3
Treatment and Recovery
Boulevard 3 Room
Healthy Recovery: An opportunity to address
smoking, diet and physical activity as part of
alcohol and other substance abuse treatment
Reframing Addiction: The impact of
chronicity and ageing for models of care
Benzodiazepines: The Rocky Road to
Recovery!
Dr Peter Kelly
Senior Research Fellow
University of Wollongong
Dr Karen Fisher
A/Clinical Coordinator
Centre for Addiction Medicine, NBMLHD
Ms Fiona Lewi
Benzodiazepine Counsellor
Reconnexion
3.00 – 3.30pm
Afternoon Tea
3.30 – 5.00pm
Workshop 4
Behavioural Addictions
Boulevard 1 Room
Workshop 5
Addiction Professional Support / Training
Boulevard 2 Room
Workshop 6
Addiction Professional Support / Training
Boulevard 3 Room
Body Blame: Treating Emotional Eating with
EMDR Therapy
Working with clients that use
methamphetamine
Inspirational Goal Setting Session for those
with Alcohol and Drug Issues
Ms Carolyn Sullivan
Private Psychologist
Mr Frank Borg
Forensic Service Manager
Caraniche
Ms Maria Pau
Director
Coaching With Substance
Dr Kara Granger
Senior Clinician
Caraniche
Day 1: Thursday 21 May 2015
8.00 - 8.40am
Registration with Arrival Tea and Coffee
Room: Boulevard Ballroom
Chair: Mr Gerard Byrne
8.40 - 8.45am
8.45 - 9.30am
9.30 - 10.00am
10.00 - 10.30am
10.30 – 11.00am
11.00 - 11.30am
Conference Open
Recovery as social justice: The recovery agenda as a mechanism for social inclusion and community engagement
Professor David Best
Professor of Criminology, Department of Law and Criminology, Sheffield Hallam University, UK and visiting Research Fellow at Turning Point and
Monash University
Addiction and decision-making
Professor Bernard Balleine
Brain & Mind Research Institute, School of Medical Sciences, The University of Sydney
Drug trends in Australia: Past, present and future
Associate Professor Lucinda Burns
Senior Lecturer, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of NSW
Morning Tea
POLICY AND RESEARCH
Room: Boulevard 1 Room
Chair: Robert Stirling
PREVENTION
Room: Boulevard 2 Room
Chair: Robert Battisti
EARLY INTERVENTIONS / SCREENING
Room: Boulevard 3 Room
Chair: Sheridan Meulblok
Who calls the shots?
AOD Prevention: Theory into Practice
Testing the Feasibility and Potential Efficacy
of a Very Brief Intervention for Cannabis
Users in an Emergency Department Setting
Mr Tony Brown
Chairperson
Newcastle Community Drug Action Team
Ms Joanne Mazzola
National Prevention Officer
Drug Arm Australasia
The impact of licensed outlet numbers on
short- and long-term effects of alcohol use
Contribution of personality, motives, coping
and licit drugs to illicit substance use in
university students
Ms Lisa Gibson
Senior Research Officer
National Cannabis Prevention and Information
Centre
Working in partnership to implement a
comprehensive service coordination
initiative - Windana's response to the
Victorian AOD reform
Mr William Gilmore
Research Fellow
National Drug Research Institute
Dr Anna Kokavec
Senior Lecturer
University of New England
11.32 - 12.02pm
Ms Kate Graham
Manager Withdrawal and Coordinated Care,
Windana Drug and Alcohol Recovery
12.04 - 12.34pm
12.34 - 1.30pm
Alcohol policy and assemblages of
intervention: Managing alcohol in
Indigenous communities
Ms Kristen Smith
Research Fellow
University of Melbourne
Changing the Family Legacy of addiction Changing lives, healing families and
supporting children
Mr Steve Stokes
Program Director
South Pacific Private
Screening for AOD use in Emergency
Department Setting the Standard
POLICY & RESEARCH
Room: Boulevard 1 Room
Chair: Adrian Webber
NADAbase: Unlocking the potential of client
outcome data collection
BEHAVIOURAL ADDICTIONS
Room: Boulevard 2 Room
Chair: Robert Battisti
App’t – addiction anywhere, anytime
SPECIAL POPULATIONS
Room: Boulevard 3 Room
Chair: Christine Palmer
Smoking cessation in drug and alcohol
treatment settings: insights from focus
groups with staff and clients
Dr Suzie Hudson
Program Manager
Network of Alcohol and other Drugs Agencies
(NADA)
Policy development to support drug
treatment services respond to the
possession of illicit substances on premises
Ms Carly Clutterbuck
Senior Clinician
headspace Meadowbrook
Dr Ashleigh Guillaumier
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
The University of Newcastle
Treating Pornography Addiction with
Trauma-Focused Therapies
The Theory and Practice of Yoga as a
treatment module for Addictive Disorders
Mr Robert Stirling
Director, Planning and Strategy
Network of Alcohol and other Drugs Agencies
(NADA)
Miss Vikki Prior
Owner & Principal Psychologist
Ringwood Psychology
Dr Latha Nithyanandam
General Manager
ADFNSW- Kathleen York House
A Longitudinal Study Investigating the Bidirectional Relationship of Impulsivity and
Substance Use in Australian Adolescent
Males and Females
AOD and Older People – A view from
Aotearoa/New Zealand
Delivery of an Offending Behaviour
Intervention Program in a Youth Residential
Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation program
Dr Julie Nos
Psychologist
Lives Lived Well, Private Practitioner
Suzy Morrison
Consumer Project Lead
Matua Raki
Mr Luke Butcher
Area Manager
Mission Australia
Mr Dave Kelly
Clinical Liaison Consultant
Peninsual Health Alcohol and Other Drug
Services
Lunch
1.30 - 2.00pm
2.02 - 2.32pm
2.34 - 3.04pm
3.04 - 3.30pm
Afternoon Tea
RESEARCH / MENTAL HEALTH &
ADDICTION
Room: Boulevard 1 Room
Chair: Tony Brown
The Development of a Naltrexone Implant
Service for Opioids, Amphetamines and
Alcohol in Western Australia
3.30 - 4.00pm
Dr George O'Neil
Medical Director Fresh Start
Fresh Start Recovery Program
BEHAVIOURAL ADDICTIONS
SPECIAL POPULATIONS
Room: Boulevard 2 Room
Chair: Sally Gainsbury
Room: Boulevard 3 Room
Chair: Karen Fisher
Understanding the active ingredients of
SMART Recovery: perceptions of group
members and group facilitators
Planting seeds of change in the drug
affected family
Dr Peter Kelly
Senior Research Fellow
University of Wollongong
Ms Belinda Volkov
Senior Counsellor
Manly Drug Education & Counselling Centre
(MDECC)
Ms Susan Watson
CEO
MDECC
A study of factors affecting problem
gambling of the high rollers from Mainland
China to Macao
4.02 - 4.32pm
Prof Zhonglu Zeng
Professor
Macau Polytechnic Institute
Internet Use Disorder: A better category for
diagnosis than Internet Gaming Disorder?
Dr Tania McMahon
Senior Research Officer
Queensland University of Technology
Aligning colliding worlds -Collaborative
practice between addictions services and
child protection
Ms Susan Russell
Clinical Consultant
Clinical Counsultancy Service, NSW FACS
Ms Michelle Ridley
Clinical Counsultancy Service, NSW FACS
Which alcohol screening tool is likely to be
suitable for routine use in primary health
care services targeting Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Australians?
Parental Internet behaviour, stress and
Problematic Internet Use in adolescents: A
parent-child dyad study
Giving women a voice – narratives on
accessing (or not) drug and alcohol services
Dr M Mofizul Islam
Lecturer/Research Fellow
Australian Primary Health Care Research
Institute
Prof Lawrence Lam
Professor
The Hong Kong Institute of Education
Ms Renee Brighton
Lecturer
School of Nursing, University of Wollongong
4.34 - 5.04pm
5.04 - 6.00pm
Welcome Reception – Trade Display Area (Boulevard Pre Function Area)
Day 2: Friday 22 May 2015
8.30 - 9.00am
9.00 - 9.30am
9.32 - 10.02am
Registration with Arrival tea and Coffee
TREATMENT AND RECOVERY
Room: Boulevard 1 Room
Chair: Samantha Hall
SMART Recovery is putting the ‘mutual’ in
mutual-aid: Digital and research innovations
that will help connect clients, communities
and treatment services with effective longerterm support
BEHAVIOURAL ADDICTIONS
Room: Boulevard 2 Room
Chair: Carolyn Sullivan
Assessing the impact of interactive gambling
and new technologies on gambling problems
MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION
Room: Boulevard 3 Room
Chair: Frank Borg
Training AOD staff in comorbid screening,
case planning and evaluation. Does it work?
Mr David Hunt
Area Coordinator for SA, TAS and VIC
SMART Recovery Australia
Dr Sally Gainsbury
Senior Lecturer
Southern Cross University
Mr Gerard Byrne
Clinical Director
The Salvation Army
Mr Michael Bellamy
Digital and Online Community Coordinator
SMART Recovery Australia
The Sensorium: Sensory Modulation Within a
Residential Treatment Setting
Psychodynamic Treatment Outcomes for
Problem Gambling
An analysis of clients perceptions of
improved mental health wellbeing when
receiving treatments designed to address
symptoms related to substance misuse
Miss Ashleigh Hilder
Occupational Therapist
Windana Drug and Alcohol Recovery
Mr Tony Clarkson
Clinical Team Leader
Gamblers Help Southern
Mr Adrian Webber
Lecturer in Counselling
University of New England
Treating Addiction as an Attachment
Disorder
Developing a Problematic Mobile Phone Use
Questionnaire using a Youth Participation
Approach
10.04 - 10.34am
Dr John Toussaint
CEO
ProCare Alliance
Mr Michael Vacaru
Doctoral Candidate/ Graduate Teaching
Assistant
University of Auckland
10.34 - 11.00am
Morning Tea
Mr David Kelly
Health Operations Manager
St Vincent de Paul Support Services
Body image and recreational drug use
among young men in the 'Bruss' subculture
Mr Timothy Piatkowski
PhD Candidate
Queensland University of Technology
TREATMENT AND RECOVERY
Room: Boulevard 1 Room
Chair: Isabella Ingram
Project HOPE - Hearing Other Peoples
Experiences
11.00 - 11.30am
11.32 - 12.02pm
Ms Jenni Thompson
Manager
Knox Social and Community Health
TREATMENT / E-TREATMENT
Room: Boulevard 2 Room
Chair: William Gilmore
Healing through Facebook: Social Media as a
therapeutic tool for young people and their
families
MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION
Room: Boulevard 3 Room
Chair: Geoff Richards
Primary and substance-induced psychotic
disorders in methamphetamine users
Mr Kieran Palmer
Clinical Services Manager
Ted Noffs Foundation
A/Prof Leanne Hides
ARC Future Fellow
Queensland University of Technology
Mr Steve Adams
Peer Support Worker
Knox Social and Community Health
Mr Leki Mafoe
Manager, CALM and Youth Homelessness
Services
Noffs Foundation
The good, the bad and the ugly: A personal
story of recovery
Service User Journey Mapping at an
Outpatient AOD Counselling Service
Control, Escape and Men's pain: Practice
Based experiences of working with Male
Comorbid Eating Disorders and Substance
Abuse
Ms Maria Yap
Project Manager
MonashLink Community Health Service
Ms Sheridan Meulblok
Psychologist
Western Region Alcohol and Drug/Sophrosyne
Psychol
The ‘Circles Concept’ of Addiction ... an
empowered framework for change
Addiction, affect regulation and attachment
treatment: "Soothe, Contain and Move on""
Western Australia’s experience of the
relationship between ADHD prescribing and
amphetamine abuse
Mr Harry Mayr
Principal Psychologist
St Marys / Penrith Psychological Services Pty
Ltd
Mr Steve Stokes
Program Director
South Pacific Private
Dr Christine Palmer
Lecturer
Flinders University
Ms Maria Maver
Consumer
12.04 - 12.34pm
12.34 - 1.30pm
Lunch
Dr Martin Whitely
Senior Advocate
Health Consumers Council of WA
1.30 - 2.00pm
TREATMENT AND RECOVERY
Room: Boulevard 1 Room
Chair: Fiona Lewi
PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT
Room: Boulevard 2 Room
Chair: George O’Neil
OPEN
Room: Boulevard 3 Room
Chair: Renee Brighton
Social Exclusion & Addiction
Client Management Software for Enhanced
Drug and Alcohol Service Delivery and
Outcomes Measurement
The Silent Addiction - How do partners and
families of sex addicts survive an addiction
they struggle to even talk about?
Mr David Peters
Policy Officer
Mental Health Carers ARAFMI NSW Inc
Mr Edward Zarnow
CEO
Lyndon Community
‘Smoking & You’ - A unique Pharmacist &
Occupational Therapist co-facilitated
inpatient client education group in an acute
mental health unit
"Do We Have To Bare Our Very Soul"
Ms Michelle Kent
Mental Health Specialist Pharmacist
Barwon Health
Mrs Martina Greenaway
District Drug & Alcohol Service Clinical Nurse
Murrumbidge Local Health District
Swinging the Pendulum: Ambivalence during
recovery from Psychic Hotline Addiction
Addiction Workforce Development-The
Aotearoa New Zealand experience
Supporting non government organisations
providing alcohol and other drug treatment
to women in NSW
Mr Michael Vacaru
Doctoral Candidate/ Graduate Teaching
Assistant
University of Auckland
Ms Anna Nelson
Anna Nelson-Programme Lead
Matua Raki
Miss Ciara Donaghy
Program Manager
Network of Alcohol and other Drugs Agencies
Ms Sharalyn Drayton
Principal/Senior Therapist
ARISE Counselling Solutions
The Impact of Problem Drinking on Family
Members and Close Associates
2.02 - 2.32pm
2.34 - 3.04pm
Ms Jo-ann Stenton
Secretary/Researcher
Ethnic Communities Drugs Taskforce
Mrs Edith Olivares
Project Officer
Network of Alcohol and Drug Agencies
3.04 - 3.30pm
Afternoon Tea
Room: Boulevard Ballroom
Chair: Dr Matthew Berry
3.30 - 4.00pm
Holistic/Interagency treatment of Addiction
Mr Stephen Ling
Nurse Practitioner (NP),Drug and Alcohol Consultation Liaison Service, John Hunter Hospital, Hunter New England Local Health District and Conjoint
Teacher, University of Newcastle
4.00 - 4.30pm
Treatment of Addiction
Associate Professor Yvonne Bonomo
Physican in Addiction Medicine
Medical Head of Unit| Women’s Alcohol and Drug Service, The Royal Women’s Hospital
4.30 - 5.00pm
Problematic online gaming - Is it an addiction?
Dr Vladan Starcevic, MD, PhD, FRANZCP
A/Professor of Psychiatry, Sydney Medical School - Nepean, The University of Sydney and Department of Psychiatry, Nepean Hospital
5.00pm
CLOSE OF CONFERENCE
*Program subject to change
POSTER PRESENTERS
Alcoholics Anonymous wants to work with you
Mr Dave S, Public Information Coordinator, Alcoholics Anonymous
Why gamblers eat more salt: Explaining covariance in the consumption of reward-oriented stimuli using a latent trait model
Miss Belinda Goodwin, PhD Student, Central Queensland University
Looking beyond the addiction...You don't know what you don't know
Ms Samantha Hall, Consumer Representative, Partners in Recovery
Measuring client satisfaction in residential substance abuse services
Ms Isabella Ingram, Researcher/Provisional Psychologist, University of Wollongong
A Strengths Based Family Oriented approach
Dr Latha Nithyanandam, General Manager, ADFNSW- Kathleen York House
Pindolol, a FDA approved drug for hypertension attenuates ethanol consumption in mice following long but not short-term ethanol exposure
Mr Omkar Patkar, PhD Student, Queensland University of Technology
Mapping of the NSW Non-Government Alcohol and other Drugs Sector
Mr Robert Stirling, Director, Planning and Strategy, Network of Alcohol and other Drugs Agencies (NADA)
The Chinese First Response - An innovative treatment intervention for families with substance abuse issues
Ms Maria Yap, Project Manager, MonashLink Community Health Service