Scientific Program Schedule - ADDICON, 2021 (10-11 December 2021)

9 Dec 2021 Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3 Hall 4

6:00 - 8.00 PM Pre Conference Workshop Pre Conference Workshop
Setting up addiction treatment services in the private Basics of Research Methods in Addiction Sciences
sector
Yosef Kale, Puneet Kathuria, Ashwin Mohan Ravindra Rao, Ashwani Mishra
Chairpersons: Rajesh Nagpal, Avinash De Souza; OC Chairpersons: Pratap Sharan, Rajesh Sagar; OC Coordinator:
Coordinator: Atul Ambekar Roshan Bhad
Day 1
10 Dec 2021 Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3 Hall 4
8:00 - 9:00 AM Free paper session 1: Alcohol and psychosocial issues Free paper session 2: COVID and addictions Free paper session 3: Dual Diagnosis Free paper session 4: Online interventions
Chairpersons: Vaibhav Patil, Naveen Dhagudu Chairpersons: Mohit Varshney, Jayant Mahadevan Chairpersons: GVL Narasimha, Gagan Hans Chairpersons: Sambhu Prasad, Anirudha Basu

9:00 - 10:00 AM Symposium 1 Symposium 2 Symposium 3 Symposium 4

From Sharaabi to Devdas- How Bollywood Portrays
Substances: A Mixed Method Study
Snehil Gupta, Ravindra Rao, Udit Panda, Swati Kedia Gupta
Chairpersons: Ravindra Rao, Rajesh Dhume
10:00 - 11:00 AM Symposium 5
New Psychoactive Substances: Critical issues and current
challenges
Rakesh Lal, Kamini Verma, Raka Jain
Chairpersons: Savita Malhotra, Shubhangi Parkar
11:00 -11:15 AM Health break and poster viewing
11:15 AM - 12:30 Plenary 1: Service engagement by people who inject drugs:
PM evidence for integrated models in India
Suresh Kumar
Plenary 2: Addictions in Punjab: Historical, Socio-cultural
and Political aspects
Anirudh Kala
Chairpersons: Nand Kumar, Anju Dhawan
12:30 - 01.30 PM Symposium 9
Unwinding the link between ADHD and addiction
Varghese P Punnoose, Mareen Benjamin, Bettina Sara
Mathew, Parvathy R S
Chairpersons: Varghese P Punnoose, Bichitra Patra
1:30 - 2:00 PM Lunch break and poster viewing
Tobacco use: across the life span of women
Piyali Mandal, Biswadip Chatterjee, Sonali Jhanjee
Chairpersons: Sonali Jhanjee, Ruksheda Sayeda
Symposium 6
How to Choose an Anti-craving Medication for Alcohol Use Injection Heroin use in Kashmir: The emerging
Disorder ?
Shiv Prasad, Prabhoo Dayal, Omsai Ramesh
Chairpersons: Prabhoo Dayal, Sarika Dakshikar
Symposium 10
The emerging trend in pattern and prevalence of drug
abuse in post COVID times andchallenges in providing
treatment and care: Clinical and legal perspective.
Rajesh Kumar, Pankaj Kumar, Sambhu Prasad
Chairpersons: Rajesh Kumar, Siddharth Sarkar
Google Trends in Substance Use Research
Abhishek Ghosh, Shinjini Choudhury, Venkata
Lakshmi Narasimha
Chairpersons: Prabhat Kumar Chand, Abhishek
Ghosh
Symposium 7
threat
Fazle Roub Bhat, Kubra Wani, Yasir Hassan Rather
Chairpersons: RK Lenin Singh, Yasir Hassan Rather
Symposium 11
Recent changes in cannabis regulation: an
opportunity or a road to disaster
Tamonud Modak, Kamini Verma, Tanmay Joshi,
Shubham Narnoli, Ankita Chattopadhyay
Chairpersons: Raman Deep, Tamonud Modak
Examining interface of sleep disorders and
substance use disorders
Siddhath Sarkar, Shambhu Prasad, Richa Tripathi,
Jawahar Singh
Chairpersons: Roshan Bhad, Siddharth Sarkar
Symposium 8
Tobacco addiction: Nurse as catalyst
Sudha Mishra, Keerthi Mohanan, Srinivasan G,
Deblina Roy, Monika Thakur
Chairpersons: Sudha Mishra, Rohit Verma
Symposium 12
Harm reduction for people who inject drugs during
Covid 19 pandemic: Challenges and India’s
response
Gayatri Bhatia, Amit Singh, Arpit Parmar
Chairpersons: Alok Agrawal, Shilpa Adarkar

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2:00 - 2:30 PM Inauguration Ceremony
2.30 - 3.00 PM Presidential address: Rajat Ray
Chairpersons: Sudhir K Khandelwal, Rakesh Chadda
3:00 - 4:15 PM Plenary 3: How can a digital platform support international
addiction medicine communities?
Alex Baldacchino
Plenary 4: Variations in the Indian Opioid Epidemic:
Perspectives from the Anthropology of Addiction
Bhrigupati Singh
Chairpersons: Rajat Ray, Pratima Murthy
4:15 - 4:30 PM Health break and poster viewing
4:30 - 5:30 PM Symposium 13 Symposium 14 Symposium 15 Symposium 16
Alcohol control policies in India: interactions with COVID Opioid Dependence: Challenges in management: Tripura Alcohol Biomarkers: Clinical relevance and recent Internet Addiction : Current Update
19 pandemic Scenario updates.
Harman Singh Bhatia, Aniruddha Mukherjee, Sourav Khanra, Priyojyoti Chakma, Santanu Ghosh Mohit Varshney, Shayani Ghosh, Rizwana Quraishi Tamonud Modak, Gayatri Bhatia, Preethy
Sanjay Kumar Munda Kathiresan, Ashish Pakhre
Chairpersons: Sanjay Kumar Munda, Vinay Kumar Chairpersons: Amrit Pattojoshi, Santanu Ghosh Chairpersons: Raka Jain, Rizwana Quraishi Chairpersons: GS Kaloiya, Meena Chandra
5:30 - 7:00 PM Quiz: ‘ADDIQUIZON’
Moderators: Shalini Singh, Jayant Mahadevan, Preethy
Kathiresan
Chairpersons: Koushik Sinha Deb, Abhishek Ghosh
Day 2
11 Dec 2021 Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3 Hall 4
8:00 - 9:00 AM Free paper session 5: Injecting Drug Use Free paper sesssion 6: Opioid Dependence & its Free paper session 7: Management - Biological, Free paper session 8: Behavioural Addictions
management Psychological and Social approaches
Chairpersons: Shalini Singh, Fazle Roub Chairpersons: Arpit Parmar, Nishikant Thorat Chairpersons: Amit Singh, Manu Sharma Chairpersons: Richa Tripathi, Aniruddha Mukherjee
9:00 - 10:00 AM Free paper session 9: Various facets of substance use Free paper seession 10: Various facets of substance use Free paper session 11: Tobacco and Nicotine Free paper session 12: Various facets of substance
disorders - 1 disorders - 2 use disorders - 3
Chairpersons: Sujita Kar, Dheeraj Katula Chairpersons: Gayatri Bhatia, Vijay Barre Chairpersons: Y Surbala Devi, Jatin Tarwani Chairpersons: Sourav Khanra, Shrigopal Goyal
10:00 -10:15 AM Health break and poster viewing
10:15 - 11:30 AM Plenary 5: Controversy, Thy Name is Cannabis!
Debashish Basu
Plenary 6: Substance Use and the Law :
Respecting Choice?
Preventing Harm?
Providing Care?
Tripti Tandon
Chairpersons: Ashwin Mohan, Atul Ambekar
11:30 AM -12:30 Symposium 17 Symposium 18 Symposium 19 Symposium 20
PM

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Symposium by STF, Government of Punja: Outpatient Symposium by SPYM: Evolution of Community-based Peer Challenges faced in Utilization of Toolkits for Behavioral addiction in the Covid era : clinical
Opioid Assisted Treatment (OOAT), an overview Led Intervention for prevention of substance use among Quitting Tobacco use: Experience of Nurses in Delhi features assessment, and management
children: Experiential Learning Model from Chandigarh, NCR
India
Harpreet Sidhu, Sanjeev Rampal, Rana Ranbir Singh, Manish Kumar, Kalyani V Prerna Kumari, Y Surbala Devi, Renju S baby, Sushil K Sanjay Yalamanchili, Ivaturi Sriramya, Maithri
Manbhavan Singh Maheshwari, Laxmi Kumari Kolluri, Saka Meghana, Kota Suresh Kumar
Chairpersons: PD Garg, Rakesh Lal Chairpersons: Rajesh Kumar, Piyali Mandal Chairpersons: Sandhya Gupta, Upendra Bhojani Chairpersons: Kota Suresh Kumar, Kaustav
Chakraborty
12.30 - 01:45 PM Plenary 7: Rethinking Addiction as outcomes of
neurodevelopmental deviations : evidence from the cVEDA
Vivek Benegal
Plenary 8: Behavioral Addictions: Are we ready to open the
Pandora’s Box?
Bhaskar Mukherjee
Chairpersons: Gautam Saha, Sonali Jhanjee
01:45 - 2:15 PM Lunch break and poster viewing
2:15 - 3:15 PM Symposium 21 Symposium 22 Symposium 23 Symposium 24
Symposium by AHRER: Clinician-informed perspectives: Natural Opium Dependence Management – Lacunae in Value of a consultation Liaison addiction- Acute Encephalopathies in Patients with Alcohol
Optimizing Harm Reduction Interventions for Help-Seeking Literature & Challenges in Clinics psychiatric nursing and crisis intervention in Use Disorder
Tobacco-Dependent Clients addressing addiction disorders in various settings
Badam Arunakumari, Kiran Melkote, Prem Kumar Navratan Suthar, Swati Choudhary, Preethy Kathiresan, Sumity Arora, Monika Sabbarwal, Renju Susan Baby Vinit Patel, Prakrithi Shivaprakash, Lekhansh Shukla
Surendra Singh Rajpurohit
Chairpersons: Prem Kumar, Prabhu Dayal Chairpersons: Sujata Satpathy, Alok Agrawal Chairpersons: LN Vadlamani, Sandhya Gupta Chairpersons: Kshirod Mishra, Lekhansh Shukla
3:15-3:30 PM Health break and poster viewing
3.30 - 4: 15 PM Plenary 9: Innovating Care for Alcohol Use Disorders in
Low Resource Settings: a ‘Spirit’ed Response
Abhijit Nadkarni
Chairpersons: PK Dalal, Pallab Maulik
4:15 - 5:45 PM Best Thesis Paper award presentation
Chairpersons: Rajeev Gupta, Vijender Singh
5:45 - 7:00 PM GBM and Valedectory

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