Side Event at the 60th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs:
Addiction and Gender
Co-sponsored by International Council of Women and Women’s International Zionist Organization, members of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women Vienna
Tuesday, March 14, 2017, 9:00 – 9:50 AM
Conference Room MOE100
Panelists from Austria, Spain and Israel will present a gender perspective on narcotic drug use and addiction, and treatment approaches, focusing on different risk factors and vulnerabilities, biological and psychological responses, and medical and social consequences of drug use for women and girls.
Welcome by Her Excellency Talya Lador-Fresher, Ambassador of Israel to Austria and the UN Organizations in Vienna
Panelists:
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Fischer, Medical Director of the Addiction Clinic, Professor ofPsychiatry and Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Dr. Marta Torrens MD, PhD, Addiction Department, Institute of Neuropsychiatry and Addiction at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Ms. Ronit Lev-Ari, Criminologist, Ruth House, Afula, Israel
Moderator:
Ms. Eleonore Hauer-Rona, International Council of Women
