• OPENING PLENARY SESSION
  
• MIDDLE PLENARY SESSION
• CLOSING PLENARY SESSION

OPENING PLENARY SESSION

Monday, October 25, 2010
8:45 a.m.–10:15 a.m.

Building Partnerships: Advancing Treatment & Recovery
Susan McKnight, MPH, Program Coordinator, Lake County Health Department, Waukegan , IL

Mark W. Parrino, MPA, President, American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence, Inc., New York , NY

Theodora Binion Taylor, Director, Division of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, Illinois Department of Human Services, Chicago, IL

H. Westley Clark , MD , JD, CAS, FASM, Director, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Rockville , MD

Hon. Danny K. Davis, Congressman 7th District, House of Representatives, Chicago , IL

The Opening Plenary will focus on the significant challenges facing our field in Illinois and the nation. Ms. Susan McKnight will open the conference by welcoming attendees to Chicago and will provide an overview of the conference. Mr. Mark Parrino, AATOD President, will present an overview of the challenges facing opioid treatment programs in the United States and AATOD’s initiatives to respond to these changing dynamics now and in the future. Dr. Westley Clark , Director of Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, will discuss federal initiatives to improve treatment access and quality. Conferees will also hear from Illinois ’ Director of the Department of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (DASA), Theodora Binion Taylor and Congressman 7th District, House of Representatives, Danny K. Davis, on how the state is working to build partnerships to advance treatment and recovery in Illinois and the nation.

MIDDLE PLENARY SESSION

Tuesday, October 26, 2010
8:45 a.m.–10:15 a.m.

Addiction, Pharmacology and the Criminal Justice System: What are the Challenges to Expanding the Use of Pharmacologic Treatment Interventions for Opioid Dependent Individuals Under the Jurisdiction of the Criminal Justice System?

Moderators:
Melody Heaps, President Emeritus, Treatment Alternatives for Safer Communities, Chicago , IL

West Huddleston, President, National Association of Drug Court Professionals, Alexandria , VA

Scott Chavez, Vice President, National Commission on Correctional Healthcare, Chicago , IL

Dawn Bushma, LCSW, CADC, Senior US Probation Officer, US Probation Office, Chicago, IL (invited)

This plenary will be moderated by Melody Heaps, President Emeritus, Treatment Alternatives for Safer Communities. Despite the fact that science has confirmed that addiction is a brain disease and not a question of lack of will power or moral failure, certain public sectors have been resistant to using medication-assisted treatment. In particular, the criminal justice system has resisted, and in some cases prohibited the use of such treatment for addicted individuals. This plenary will explore the reasons behind such resistance, discuss models of pharmacological treatments within the justice system, the challenges treatment systems face in working with the criminal justice system, and the future of medication-assisted treatment in the criminal justice system.

CLOSING PLENARY SESSION

Wednesday, October 27, 2010
11:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m.

The Partnership of the Field and the Federal Government: The Expansion of Healthcare Reform and Access to Quality Care

Speakers:
Howard Koh, MD, Assistant Secretary for Health , U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington , DC (Invited)

Mark W. Parrino, MPA, President, American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence, Inc., New York , NY

Susan McKnight, MPH, Program Coordinator, Lake County Health Department, Waukegan , IL

AATOD is honored to have Dr. Howard Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health, Department of Health and Human Services (Invited), to wrap up the 2010 Conference in Chicago . Dr. Koh will discuss the implementation of health care reform and the integration of addiction treatment services and primary health care.