Workshop on Early Warning System for New Psychoactive Substances - the health dimension	
	
JHA 51722	
	
organised in co-operation with	
	
Croatian Agency for Combating Drug Abuse	

Venue :	
	
Four Points by Sheraton Panorama Zagreb
Trg Krešimira Ćosića 9	
Zagreb,	
27 - 28 May 2013	

 For more information on TAIEX assistance and to download presentations of
 this event, please go to : http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/taiex.	

Aim of the meeting :	

The main aim of the workshop is to improve knowledge and monitoring of the prevalence, intoxications and deaths related to new psychoactive substances.	

Monday 27 May 2013

8.30 – 9.00                                        Arrival and registration of participants

9.00 					Welcome and introductory speech 	
	
Željko Petković  
Director of the Office for Combating Drugs Abuse of the Government of the Republic of Croatia 

9.30 – 11.00 	Introduction to the topic of new psychoactive substances

	Andrew Cunningham
Scientific Analyst
Supply Reduction and New Trends
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction

EU Early Warning System on New Psychoactive 
Substances  - purpose and structure

Andrew Cunningham, 
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction

11.00-11.30 				Coffee break

11.30-12:30	The Italian Early Warning System: organization, collaborations and main results
	Claudia Rimondo,
Coordinator NEWS
Department for Antidrug Policies – National Early Warning System (NEWS)
 Italy
12:30 – 13:30	National Early Warning System clinical aspects: the network of emergency units and the procedure for biological samples’ collection and analysis 

	Carlo Locatelli, 
Director, Poison Control Centre – National Toxicology Information Centre
IRCCS Maugeri Foundation – Department of Antidrug Policy – Presidency of Council of Ministers
Italy 

13.30-14.30 				Lunch break

14.30 – 15:10	Organizational structure and working methods of the Croatian Early Warning System on New Psychoactive Substances  

New psychoactive substances in the Republic of Croatia and identification methods

	Lidija Vugrinec
Head of the Croatian National Focal Point

	

15.10-15.40 				Coffee break
	
15.40-16.30 	 Discussion

Tuesday 28 May 2013

9.30 – 11.00	NEWS' analytical aspects: new psychoactive substances detected and the integrated database
	Catia Seri 
Chemist, Department of Antidrug Policies – National Early Warning System
Italy 

11.00-11.30 			Coffee break
	
11.30-12.30	Detection of deaths related to New Psychoactive Substances: the UK experience

John Corkery
Research Co-ordinator
Department of Pharmacy
University of Hertfordshire
United Kingdom

	
12.30-14.00 			Lunch break
	
14.00-15.30			The Emergence of New Psychoactive Substances in Ireland

Brian Roberts
Garda National Drugs Unit

Collaboration between the national EWS and treatment service providers in Hungary 

Anna Péterfi
Coordinator
National Centre for Epidemiology
Hungarian National Focal Point (Reitox)

15.30-16.00 Coffee break
	
16.00-16.30 Conclusions of the workshop	

This meeting is being organised by the
Technical Assistance Information Exchange Instrument
of the European Commission	
	
CHAR 03/149 , B - 1049 Brussels
Telephone: +32-2-296 73 07 , Fax: +32-2-296 76 94	
	
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