Anne Campbell
Dr Anne Campbell is a Professor in Substance use at QUB . She has established an international reputation for work within the drugs and alcohol sector. Her combined work in both arenas has resulted in distinctive and leading research at UK Government level drug policy and practice reform. She is currently working on ‘wearables technology ’ to detect opioid overdose deaths , labelling for alcohol products using face recognition software and community approaches to addressing substance use issues.
Session
Researchers from QCAP ,QUB, Belfast have spent the last two years working to help communities develop and sustain grass root programmes, which were initiated and co produced by people living in a post conflict community in Northern Ireland. Two examples of collaborative working with communities, community representatives and residents will demonstrate how traditional community work approaches (Twelvetrees, A , 2008 and Popple, K, 2015 ) were revisited to inform how local communities could create and sustain substance use support groups and substance use education programmes, using Freire's principles of social justice within a post conflict environment.