This is an education session to provide AOD practitioners in mental health information about drug using from a drug users viewpoint led by Jane Dicka, Drug Overdose Peer Educator.

• The impact of discrimination and stigma on the drug using community by health workers
• The miracle of Naloxone – extending opportunities for administration, but too expensive off script?
• Pharmacotherapy – Suboxone, Methadone the positives and negatives of long-term use
• Combating Hep C – new and effective treatment with Direct Acting Anti-virals
• Harm Reduction Victoria – services and programs