To take us through the last few weeks of 2020, we’ve put together a series of webinars focusing on what you need to know about cocaine, MDMA, cannabis and benzos.

This year at Crew, we launched a series of in-depth harm reduction resources covering cocaine, MDMA, cannabis and benzos. And since we aren’t delivering face to face training sessions or events this year, we wanted to offer online launch webinars for these new resources instead!

For each of the webinars, we’ve invited some friends to spend time chatting with our Emerging Trends and Training team about the new resources and key topics relating to each of these drugs.

By registering for the main event you will have access to all four webinars to watch live (meaning you can interact and ask questions during the session) and you can also re-play the recording of the event. The recording of each instalment will be available through the Crowdcast platform by using the email address you registered with.

Cannabis – 10th December, 1830-2000 GMT

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Vicki Craik - Emerging Trends and Training Coordinator for Crew

Vicki has worked for Crew since 2013 where she has developed the Crew professional training service and led the efforts to monitor emerging drug trends. Bringing her expertise in biological sciences, Vicki is a fountain of knowledge on New Psychoactive Substances and the essentials of harm reduction.

Kira Pascalle - Training and Communications Officer for Crew

Kira first joined Crew as a volunteer in 2013 and has worked in various different departments drawing on her background of digital health interventions, science communication and youth work. Kira is also a senior healthcare volunteer for the UK drug-testing organisation, The Loop.

For each webinar we have the following special guests:

Dr Lili Galindo - Psychiatrist and Senior Health Care Coordinator for The Loop.

Lili is a practicing clinical psychiatrist and a Professor Ad Honorem of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Colombia with a focus on drugs and drug use. Lili also volunteers for the UK based drug-testing organisation, The Loop where she coordinates the health care team and interventions that people accessing the service receive.

Raoul Koning is a co-ordinator for the peer-to-peer drug education organisation Unity and for the drug testing service in Amsterdam. He has been active in these fields since 2011.

He studied clinical neuropsychology in Groningen and subsequently moved to Amsterdam to enjoy and work in the nightlife arena. Here he started to work for Unity as a coach and for the drug testing service in Amsterdam. With this experience he proceeded to work for the coordinating office for the Dutch national Drug Information Monitoring Service, until 2016. He is currently working for Jellinek, a drug testing service in Amsterdam.

Dr Henry Fisher - Chief Scientific Officer of Hanway Associates

Henry is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Hanway Associates, London’s global cannabis consultancy, as well as co-founder of Cannabis Europa, Europe’s foremost medical cannabis conference.

Henry completed a DPhil in pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Oxford, where his studies focused on formulation of psychoactive pharmaceuticals. He started his professional career in cannabis policy at the Beckley Foundation, which researches the medical applications of cannabis and psychedelics. He was part of the founding team of Volteface, the UK’s leading drug policy think tank, where his work focussed on medicinal cannabis and night time economy policy.

Yanni Yannoulis - Service Delivery Manager for Change, Grow, Live (CGL) Edinburgh North West Service.

Yanni is a long-time supporter of Crew. He currently works for the national charity Change, Grow, Live and he has a specialist interest in benzodiazepines and harm reduction.

Yanni will being joined alongside colleagues from Public Health Scotland who will discuss the public health challenges posed by benzodiazepine use in Scotland.

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