Nordic Reform Conference 2023 – 29 - 30 September – Røverstaden, Oslo, Norway
Learn. Connect. Participate.
Learn about evidence-based practices in the field of drug policy, harm reduction, and human rights.
We invite you to join us at the Nordic Reform Conference in Oslo, Norway on September 29-30, 2023. We can't wait to see you there!
NRC connects frontline health workers, researchers, policymakers, activists, and people with lived drug use experience in a unified forum to inspire the free exchange of innovative ideas and facilitate transformative discussions. Afterparty Saturday night at the same location: Røverstaden.
Welcome to NRC2023
Conference Program 2023
08:30
Registration
09:30
Welcome to Day 1
09:40
Status report from the Nordic countries
10:00
"Are we there yet?": Development and changes in drug policy in Iceland
Helga Sif Friðjónsdóttir, Deputy Director General at the Ministry of Health in Iceland
10:30
Evidence based prevention strategies: What works?
Ingrid Engene Gøranson, General secretary Safer youth
10:50
Q and A
11:00
Coffee Break
11:15
The Norwegian Police Scandal
Dag Wollebæk, Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research in Oslo
11:40
Copaganda in Norway
Birgitte Ellefsen, Associate Professor at the Norwegian Police University College
12:00
Q and A
12:15
Lunch
13:15
Panel: The future of drug checking services in the Nordic countries.
13:45
Is the Nordic tobacco policy out of step with a fast changing nicotine market.
Karl Erik Lund, Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health
14:15
Break
14:30
Too late but still great - Identifying the Lives Saved by Opioid Assisted Therapy (LAR) in Norway
Ole Røgeberg, Senior Research Fellow/Deputy Director at the Frisch Centre in Oslo
15:00
Heroin on prescription— how restrictive must heroin agonist treatment be?
Dr. med. Thilo Beck, MD, psychiatrist and Co-Head of Psychiatry at Arud Centre for Addiction Medicine.
15:30
Q&A
15:40
End of Day One
10:00
Welcome to Day 2
10:05
Can we create a drug utopia?
10:30
Addressing regulatory dilemmas in cannabis policy
11:00
Break
11:15
Speed Talks: Inspiration from Innovative Low Threshold Projects
Aura Roig, Director of Metzineres in Spain
Gunnar Simonsen Thingnes, Sykepleiere på Hjul, Norway
Ingrid Autran, Safe Space, Norway
James Dickson, Skeiv Kunnskap & Viktor Hjallar, ChemFriendly
Gunnar Simonsen Thingnes, Sykepleiere på Hjul, Norway
Ingrid Autran, Safe Space, Norway
James Dickson, Skeiv Kunnskap & Viktor Hjallar, ChemFriendly
11:40
Interview with Johan H. Andresen - industrialist, investor and philanthropist
with Ina Roll Spinnangr
12:00
Lunch
13:00
Updates from cannabis regulation in Malta
13:30
Debate: Should cocaine be regulated?
14:00
Nordic Reform Award 2023 Ceremony
The winner of the Nordic Reform Award 2023 will be announced
14:15
Break
14:30
Drug prohibition is destroying the planet
15:00
Stand up
with comedian Jim Swann
15:20
Just Say Know: Dispatches from an alternative reality where the War on Drugs never happened
15:30
Closing Remarks
15:40
End of Day 2
20:00
Nordic Wave Afterparty
Are you a researcher, scientist, politician, medical professional, policy maker, therapist, community worker, drug addict or health personnel?
Join the drug policy reform community by becoming a member at rusreform.no.
Join the drug policy reform community by becoming a member at rusreform.no.
Join the community. Become a speaker.
Are you interested in giving a talk about your research, insights, experience, personal story?
Contact us – we are currently working on the program for the NRC2023.
Contact us – we are currently working on the program for the NRC2023.
Nordic Reform Conference 2023
Røverstaden, Oslo Konserthus
Munkedamsveien 15
0250 Oslo
Contact us
Association For Safer Drug Policies
Phone: +47 400 67 989
Email: ina.roll@rusreform.no