International Perspectives on Addiction: Issues and Interventions

A Celebration of Cuan Mhuire: 50 Years of Service to Addiction, Homelessness and Community

09:00-09:30 Registration

09:30-10:00 Introduction to President and Speakers – Professor Ray Kinsella, Cuan Mhuire
Welcome – President, Institute of Technology Tralee – Dr. Oliver Murphy

10:00-10:20 Addiction: The Cuan Mhuire Care Model

Sr. Consilio Fitzgerald, Guardian and Founder of Cuan Mhuire,
Ireland's largest multi-campus provider of Tier 4 Addiction Services

10:20-11:00 European Overview: Addictive behaviours and dependencies: Issues,
Interventions and Policies
Alexis Goosdeel, Director, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
(EMCDDA)

11:00-11:30 Tea/Coffee Break

11:30-12:15 Families, Children in Addiction, Distress and Crisis
Professor Pat McDevitt and Professor Melissa Ockerman, DePaul University Chicago, USA

12:15-13:00 Addiction and Population Health: Key Issues
Professor Joe Barry: Chair of Population Health Medicine
Trinity College Dublin / Health Service Executive

13:00-13:30 Q&A

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:15 Isolation: Outreach services to farmers in rural Ireland: A case study
Dr Tom Farrelly, Ms Sinead Flaherty, Ms Chrystal O'Brien, Institute of Technology Tralee
and Mr Con Cremin, Talbot Grove, Castleisland

15:15-15:45 Developments in Communicable Diseases and Addiction: Trends and Practice Issues
Dr Paul Quigley, Medical Specialist in Addiction and Harm Reduction, Member of the Board
of HIV Ireland, Researcher

15:45-16:00 Tea/Coffee Break

16.00-16.30 Corporate Partnerships in tackling Addiction - mobilising skills, experience and CSR
Ms Susan Dargan, Director of State Street International (Ireland) Limited, State
Street Fund Services (Ireland) Limited and IFDS Ireland

16.30-17.00 Closing remarks and follow up
Ms Sandra Daly, MBA: CEO Mercy Hospital, Cork