Reducing hepatitis C sexual and drug taking risk behaviours among female drug users in Europe (REDUCE): translating evidence into practice
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_ The REDUCE project is co-ordinated by the Parc de Salut Mar, Barcelona, Spain.  Partners include: Scotland, Poland, Austria and Italy. Details of each partner are described below:

Project Coordinator

Spain

_ Parc de Salut Mar 
Passeig Maritim 88,
08003 Barcelona
Spain

Parc de Salut de Mar

_ Professor Marta Torrens
Professor of Psychiatry and Head of Addiction Program
Tel: +34 93 248 31 75
Email: MTorrens@parcdesalutmar.cat
Web :
http://www.parcdesalutmar.cat/es_index.html
http://www.imim.es/programesrecerca/neurociencies/en_gratus.html

Judit Tirado

Junior Researcher
Tel: +34 933160449
Email: JTirado@imim.es
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Project Manager

England

_ School of Health and
Social Care
The University of Greenwich
Avery Hill Road
London SE9 2UG
England

University of Greenwich

_ Dr Gail Gilchrist
Principal Research Fellow
Head of the Centre for Applied Social Research

Tel: +44 (0)20 8331 9621
Skype: gailgilchrist
Email: G.Gilchrist@gre.ac.uk
Web: http://www.gre.ac.uk/schools/health/contact/staff/research/dr-gail-gilchrist
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Project Partners

Scotland


_ University of the West of Scotland,
Paisley Campus
High Street, Paisley,
PA1 2BE, Scotland

University of the West of Scotland

_ Professor Avril Taylor
Chair in Public Health and Faculty Director of Research, Faculty of Education, Health and Social Sciences

Tel: +44 (0)141 848 3771/ 3980
Email: avril.taylor@uws.ac.uk
Web: http://www.uws.ac.uk/schoolsdepts/socialsciences/avriltaylor.asp

Dr Alison Munro
Research Fellow
Tel: +44 (0)141 848 3771/ 3603
Email: alison.munro@uws.ac.uk 

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Poland


_ Instytut Psychiatrii i Neurologii
02-957 Warszawa, Sobieskiego 9
Warsaw
Poland

Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology

_ Dr Jacek Moskalewicz
Head of the Department of Studies on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
Tel: +48 22 6427501
Email: moskalew@ipin.edu.pl
Web: www.ipin.edu.pl

 

Dr Katarzyna Dąbrowska
Senior Researcher
Tel: +48 22 6427501
Email: dabrow@ipin.edu.pl


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_ The aims of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology are to improve health care in the field of psychiatry and neurology and to conduct research in these and allied fields. Research methods range from molecular level to psychological and epidemiological approaches. Different disciplines are represented by 25 departments including, among others, four departments of psychiatry, two departments of neurology, methadone maintenance programme, and out-patient facilities offering services for alcohol and drug addicts. The Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology and its Department of Studies on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence in particular has long experience in alcohol and drug research, including international comparative studies.The Institute has  numerous achievements in qualitative research with special competence in in-depth interviews and focus group approach. In recognition of its competence in cultural studies, its scientists were invited to contribute to major international encyclopaedias on alcohol and culture (Blocker J.S. Jr., Fahey D.M., Tyrrell I.R. (eds) Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History, ABC Clio 2003: Santa Barbara, Denver, Oxford, Dwight B. Heath (ed.) International Handbook on Alcohol and Culture, Greenwood Press 1995: London).

Austria


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Medical University Vienna
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Währinger Gürtel 18 - 20
1090 Vienna

Austria

Medical University of Vienna Addiction Clinic (MUW)

_ Professor Gabriele Fischer

Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Director of Addiction Clinic
Tel: +43 (0)1 40400 2117
Email: gabriele.fischer@meduniwien.ac.at
Web: http://www.sucht-news.at/content/docs/CV_Fischer.pdf

Birgit Köchl
Mag.
Tel: +43 (0)1 40400 3559
Email: birgit.koechl@meduniwien.ac.at  



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_ The Addiction Clinic, under the lead of Vienna’s PI Prof. Gabriele Fischer, is embedded in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and constitutes an integral component of the addiction treatment in Vienna and its bordering provinces. It offers interventions for various types of substance-related and substance-unrelated disorders, providing individually tailored treatment by healthcare professionals from various disciplines (medicine, nursing service, social casework, psychology, psychotherapy, pharmacy, neuropsychology). Addiction often occuring along with other co-morbid psychiatric disorders and the diagnostic and therapy of these co-morbidities counting as a precondition for a successful therapy leads to a close cooperation with other inpatient and outpatient organizations.

The Addiction Clinic operates within the Medical University Hospital. Clinical as well as research staff is well experienced and trained in caring for the substance dependent patients and is always present or available. A well equipped lab for blood urinalysis and an in-house pharmacy with staff experienced in preparing and administering doses for both laboratory and clinical trials are at disposal as well. Inpatient treatment may always be arranged within the wards of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, which disposes of 140 beds, if necessary.

The treatment of opioid-dependent women has developed to a special focus of the Addiction Clinic. Since 1994 an interdisciplinary, multi-professional treatment concept for substance dependent pregnant women has been established. Pregnant women entering treatment at the Addiction Clinic undergo psychiatric and medical assessment. They have to provide urine samples for analysis, and they are interviewed by psychologists regarding their addiction severity, risk behavior, quality of life and personality; additionally, social workers take care of their problems regarding working, housing, custody and other legal affairs. Pregnant patients may receive pharmacological maintenance treatment after having signed a treatment contract. Treatment terms and conditions (frequency of medical appointments, maintenance substance, and additional psychosocial care like participation in psycho-educative group therapies) are determined individually for each patient, depending on multiple factors as stability in treatment, living and working situation etc. If necessary, patients may be admitted to the intensive care unit for detoxification, or to inpatient treatment for stabilization during pregnancy. Medical care is provided regarding all kinds of physical problems; therefore, the Addiction Clinic cooperates with all Departments of the Medical University of Vienna, but particularly with the Department of OB/GYN, and the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescents (Division of Neonatology, Clinic of Developmental Neurology). Standardized operational procedures (SOPs) have been developed over the past 15 years between these departments. Furthermore the Otto Wagner Hospital and Rosenhügel Psychiatry are cooperating hospitals in the city of Vienna.

Besides treatment and counseling, the Addiction Clinic conducts a lot of research in the field of substance dependence and substance-unrelated dependence, e.g. opioid dependence and hepatitis C, pathological gambling and psychiatric co-morbidity, nicotine dependence, quality of life during maintenance treatment, maintenance treatment during pregnancy etc. For research, clinical and research staff is cooperating closely within the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy as well as with other departments involved in the relevant studies.

Hepatitis C in women with substance-related disorders is not only related to addiction but must also be seen as a public health topic. Therefore the REDUCE project is located at the Center for Public Health, also part of the University of Vienna, led by Professor Manfred Maier.

Italy

_ Servizio Salute Regione Marche

Gentile da Fabriano, n° 3 Regione Marche -60100 Ancona, Italy











Università Politecnica delle Marche
P.zza Roma 22, 60121 Ancona

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Dr Lucia Di Furia
MD, PhD

Medical Manager, Coordinator for Research, Innovation and Training

Tel: +39 071 806 4180
Email: lucia.difuria@regione.marche.it
Web: www.regione.marche.it

Cinzia Giammarchi
Researcher
Tel:  +39 071 806 4333
Email: cinzia.giammarchi@regione.marche.it

Georgia Falconi
Email: Giorgia.falcioni@libero.it
Web: www.univpm.it

Dr Gianluca Svegliati Baroni
Email: g.svegliati@univpm.it
Web: www.univpm.it
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_ ARS (Agenzia Regionale Sanitaria - Regional Agency for Health – part  of the Health and Social ServicesDepartment (Dipartimento per la Salute e per i Servizi Sociali)

The Health and Social ServicesDepartment (Dipartimento per la Salute e per i Servizi Sociali), is the organisationalstructureof the RegionalCouncil  responsiblefor “Health” in the Marche region. The “Dipartimento per la Salute e per i Servizi Sociali”, besidesits roles of economic and financial planning and strategic control, performance monitoring, and issues relating to human resources and accreditations, manages the developmentof the Health and Social-HealthRegionalPlan, with the view of promoting socio-health integration. It manages the Regional Social Policies and Social Inclusion Policies, for example in the fields of disability; immigration and refugees; extreme social excluded; drug addiction; extreme poverty; mental health. It manages the developmentof the Regional Social Plan, with particular care for older people, as well as the third sector, and no profit firms. It also manages policies related to family; childhood and youth; among others. The Dipartimento per la Salute e per i Servizi Sociali therefore, deals with all services related to public health, such as prevention programmes, public health actions, pharmaceutical, hospital, and primary care, and it is responsible for programming the system concerning the supply of health. In addition, it coordinates the implementation of guidelines for health policy, it programs and monitors health expenditure, it coordinates and monitors the actions of the local agencies of the national health system. The Dipartimento per la Salute e per i Servizi Sociali controls the flow of the Health Information System. The Dipartimento per la Salute e per i Servizi Sociali organises focus groups at various levels to ensure the broadest participation and maximum inclusion to achieve optimum standards of efficiency, effectiveness, quality and public involvement. It also aims at expanding international relations by participating at international projects on prevention, such as Psychonaut, ReDNet, and REDUCE and healthy ageing, such as  JADE and UP-Tech (on Alzheimer).

The Regional Agency for Health - ARS (Agenzia Regionale Sanitaria) – is its operative arm; in particular, in regards to tasks related for example to Clinical Governance, Socio-Health Integration, Health and Biomedicine Research, Innovation and Training, Technologies, Prevention, Primary and Hospital Care. Innovationis particularly important for the Marche region, which at present is exploring molecular biology and its applications in various fields.