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Drugs Health Justice, Perspectives on race-equality
T3E UK/Connections Summer University
7–8 June 2010 at the Manson Theatre
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street London WC1E 7HT
Like the Connections Project as a whole, our ‘university’ will examine integrated responses to drug use and related infections across European criminal justice systems. Its special focus will be race equality – how these systems respond to the most marginalised of the marginalised.
Based both on research and their experiences as practitioners, together presenters and participants will accompany imagined drug using offenders on their journeys from arrest, through assessment and referral to treatment, being charged, convicted, and sentenced to community-based or prison sentences, and beyond to social reintegration.
Our imagined offenders will be marginalised not just by virtue of illegal drug use and criminalisation, but also because they are seen as members of minority groups –populations divorced from mainstream status by virtue of being recognised as ‘ethnic’ minorities and/or because they visibly differ from the presumed norms in that society.
European Union studies have found that people vulnerable to racism because of their obvious visibility are exiled to the very margins of European societies, a status reflected in numerous social, health, political and economic indices. Among these populations, the visible minority drug user is likely to be the most marginalised of the marginalised.
The university will exemplify the traditions of previous events and of the organisers, T3E – an acronym which encapsulates French terms (Toxicomanie, Europe, Échanges, Études) representing its ambition to deepen understanding of drug use and addiction by facilitating exchange of ideas and experience across Europe. Only through such exchanges can we place our ‘ways of doing things’ in perspective and have them challenged or reinforced by other ways of doing things as well as by research in our own and other countries. As an interactive network we can better articulate and explore effective responses for the recovery and reintegration of people affected by drug problems and associated infections.
Invited speakers and delegates
Professor Terry Williams, New School of Social Research, New York, USA
Armando Leandro, Juiz Conselheiro Jubilado, Lisbon, Portugal
Professor Antoine Lazarus, University de Paris XIII, France
Professor Stephan Feuchtwang, London School of Economics, UK
Dr Luis Patricio, Psychiatrist/T3E, Portugal
Dr Andrej Kastelic, Psychiatrist, Lubljana, Slovenia
Attila Juhasz, Provincial Governor of Prisons, Eger, Hungary
M Jean-Pierre Demange, SATO/T3E, France
M Eric Allouche, Psychologist, Slagelse Kommunes Misbrugscenter, Denmark
Gary Wallace Plymouth Public Health Development Unit, UK
Organised by
T3E UK and the Race and
Drugs Project as part of the
the Connections Project
In association with
The Centre for Research in
Drugs & Health Behaviour,
London School of Hygiene
& Tropical Medicine
Supported by
The European Commission
The Open Society Institute
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