HIT HOT TOPICS CONFERENCE 2018 LUTYENS CRYPT, LIVERPOOL 9 NOVEMBER
HIT Hot Topics Conference 2018
The greatest harm reduction conference in the UK
HIT Hot Topics is the UK’s greatest harm reduction conference, with a strong focus on providing practical take-away messages from some of the world’s most interesting speakers.
We will be launching the 2019 HIT Hot Topics Conference website very soon, but we are ready to announce our first speaker so why wait! We are very excited to announce that Sanho Tree will be speaking at this year’s conference.
Drug law enforcement was bound to be at the top of the agenda for a conference that cares passionately about harm reduction. While drug use was ‘ubiquitous, right across the population’, drug law enforcement was ‘a tool for social control’, said Niamh Eastwood, executive director at Release. Furthermore, it had before a weapon against the poorest and most vulnerable, designed to ‘push people out there’.
Julian Buchanan is a qualified social worker, drug worker and academic from Anfield, Liverpool, UK. He has worked in the drug field since the mid 1980s when he helped pioneer a risk reduction drug policy for the Merseyside Probation Service and with the support of Dr John Marks he established the South Sefton Drug Team that provided a comprehensive range of harm reduction services.
For the first time this year we are going to be trying something new to help people connect during the conference. We’ll be having a ‘Connecting board’ to help people looking for help with projects or developing ideas.