Expert Meeting Sofia

The third STARR expert meeting "Approaches to Drugs and Alcohol Abuse in Prisons & Probation" was held from 2^nd - 4^th February 2011 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Below you find an overview of the presentations and relevant documents of the STARR expert meeting on drugs and alcohol abuse.  

 
Expert meeting based documents:
 

• Programme of the expert meeting 
• Seminar report (also available in Bulgarian/Български)
• Photos of the expert meeting (not yet available)

 Presentations in Bulgarian:
 

• STARR Drugs & Alcohol pilot in Bulgaria (by Andrey Momchilov)
• Treatment and Rehabilitation of addicts in Bulgaria (by Tsveta Raycheva) (not yet available)
• Drunk Driving Programme (by Daniela Yordanova)
• Social and correctional work with detainees with drug addictions (by Krum Petrov)

Presentations in English:
 

• Overview of STARR project (by Steve Pitts)
• Drugs & Alcohol research - Findings and Results (by Thomas Akoensi)
• Alternative Approaches to dealing with Addicted Offenders; details of a working group (by Andreas Skulberg)
• Development of Drugs & Alcohol Programmes in Prisons & Probation in UK (by Danny Clark)
• Drugs & Alcohol interventions in Norway (by Andreas Skulberg)
• Approaches to Drugs&Alcohol Abuse; the French judicial approach (by Françoise Guyot)
• Working with clients with drug and other addictions in a Hungarian NGO (by Krisztina Ratz)
• COVAID - Controlling of Violence in Angry Impulsive Drinkers (by Prof. Mary McMurran)
• Co-operation between drug treatment centre's and the Probation System in Catalonia (by Josep Maria Suelves)
• The transfer and adaptation of drug treatment programmes (by Sharon Walker)
• The Private Sector experience in the treatment of Offenders with Problematic Drug use in South Wales (by Neil Harding and Rebecca Jones) (not yet available)