RECLAIMING LIVES: BEST PRACTICES for SUSTAINABLE RECOVERY

• This unique, multidisciplinary conference offers about 40 presentations, with 60 international and national experts in the field, many of whom are also well-known authors and trainers.
• It regularly attracts 500 attendees from about 14 countries.
• Speakers include Professor Carlo DiClemente on the Stages of Change model, Professor Alan Marlatt on mindfulness therapy as relapse prevention, NTA chair Baroness Massey, bestselling authors Rokelle Lerner, John Friel and Brenda Schaeffer, Kathy Gyngell of Breakthrough Britain, Martin Lee of NOMS, researchers Dr David Best & John Marsden, CSCI lead David Finney, IC&RC president Jeff Wilbee, CARF CEO Nikki Migas, former US deputy drugs czar Dr Andrea Barthwell, Patrick DeChello, Deirdre Boyd and many more
• UKESAD topics include structured interventions, art therapy, chronic pain childhood trauma, sex and love addiction, family-of-origin issues, diagnosing & treating ersonality disorders, codependency, GLBT issues, 'dual diagnosis', offenders, aftercare, the latest pharmacotherapies, a european 'round table'... and much more.
• on Thursday and Friday, two 'streams' of presentations will be devoted to intensive therapeutic issues, one to brief interventions and a fourth for management. On Saturday, a stream of presentations will be developed with the American Society of Addiction Medicine and a range of international and european partners, specifically devoted to doctors and psychiatrists. We encourage doctors and therapists to network and learn from each other. The key speaker is Dr Mike Miller, president of ASAM.
• Delegates can enjoy a full theatrical presentation on Saturday afternoon, when Outside Edge Theatre Company will stage a play.
• There will also be music, book signings, neck/shoulder massages.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Deirdre Boyd: editor of Addiction Today, ceo of ARF and Ukesad cofounder/lead organiser... Hon David Bernstein: ARF trustee...Anthony Massouras: ceo of Mimosa, ARF chairman... Lowell Monkhouse: liaison, northern Europe... Veronica Moss: new-marketing development... Dave Mulvaney: operations director of Rapt, ARF trustee... Don Serratt: ceo of Life Works... Andrew Vincent: liaison, southern Europe... Melissa Gordon: liaison for delegate bookings... Fran Henshall: accounts.