7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Registration

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast & Networking

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Drug Use among Latino Youth in the Juvenile Justice System

Chairs:

Hortensia Amaro, Ph.D.
Northeastern University

Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, Davis

Presenters:

Linda A. Teplin, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Substance Use and Other Psychiatric Disorders in Delinquent Youth:  A Longitudinal Study

Maria Elena Medina-Mora, PhD.
Mexican National Institute of Psychiatry 
Patterns of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Disorders and Service Utilization among Mexican Youth with Juvenile Justice Involvement

William Arroyo, M.D.
Department of Mental Health County of Los Angeles
Best Promising Practices to Incarcerating Youth with Mental Illness and Substance Abuse Problems

The Honorable Robert J. Totten
Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles
Challenges and Successes of a Juvenile Drug Court” or “Mental Health Needs of Latino Youth in Juvenile Justice: What Should Happen Before they Enter the System, What Should Happen While They’re in the System, What Isn’t Happening, and What Is Needed to Help Them Succeed When They Leave the System?

Abstract:

This panel will examine the changing illicit drug use patterns and mental health service needs of Latino high-risk youth in preventing youth with mental health/substance abuse conditions from entering the juvenile justice system, as well as increase understanding of processes that juvenile justice courts utilize when working with Latino youth who have substance use issues and their families

10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Beverage Break

10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

Drug Markets and Criminal Justice Systems

Chair:

Avelardo Valdez, Ph.D.
University of Houston

Joe Martinez, Ph.D.
University of Texas, San Antonio

Nelson Tiburcio, Ph.D.
National Development and Research Institutes

Presenters:

Warren K Bickel, Ph.D.
University of Arkansas Medical Services

Francisco A. Villarruel, Ph.D.
Michigan State University

Jorge Chabat, Ph.D.

Abstract:

Previous studies have investigated the national and international etiology of drug markets and their relationship to drug use patterns, dependence, interventions, criminal justice (courts, incarceration) and security systems. Existing research in this area vary from the individual level (often street based) to more macro (national and international) level. This panel examines these issues as they relate to U.S. Hispanic populations. Dr. William K. Bickel’s presentation applies a behavioral and neuroeconomic model to better understand drug purchasing behaviors, temporal discounting and dependency. Neuroeconomics combines the discipline of neuroscience with economics and psychology to examine brain function in decision making and choice. Dr. Francisco A. Villarruel addresses the connection between enforcement of drug laws, disparities in sentencing and incarceration of Hispanics, and how this sustains the “drug market-prison connection.”  U.S. - Mexico relations, drug trafficking and public security will be the focus of Dr. Jorge Chabat’s presentation.  Participants in this panel will acquire a greater understanding of the association of drug markets, criminal enforcement systems and drug use patterns among U.S. Hispanics.

11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Transition Break

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

International  Featured Speakers

Chair:

Dr. Antonio Cepeda-Benito

Presenters:

Fernando Fonseca
Fundacion Imabis
Neurobiology with a focus in cannabinoid pathways

Maristela Monteiro
Pan American Health Organization 
Gender, alcohol, culture and harms: a multicentric study in 10 countries of the Americas

Marya Hynes-Dowell
Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD)
Drug Consumption in the Americas: A comparative analysis of trends and patterns of use

This lunch-working session will feature three presentations followed by questions and commentary by the audience. The speakers will present recent scientific breakthroughs they have achieved in collaboration with their international teams of Hispanic investigators. Dr. Rodriguez-Fonseca will explain how current pharmacological advances have linked the endogenous cannabinoid signaling system to alcoholism and how modulation of this system arises as a promising tool to treat alcohol abuse and relapse. Dr. Monteiro will present findings on alcohol consumption patterns in the Americas along with an in depth analysis of the interrelationship between gender and culture in the effects of alcohol on partner aggression. The session will be closed by Ms. Hynes, who will show the latest data on trends and patterns of drug use across the Americas in both secondary school students and the general population. (Lunch provided gratis—courtesy of Texas A&M University).   

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. 

Lunch on your Own

2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

New Investigators in Drug Abuse Research

Chair:

Nelson Tiburcio, Ph.D.
National Development and Research Institutes

C0-Chairs:

Laura Elena O’Dell, Ph.D.
University of Texas – El Paso

Victoria Ojeda, Ph.D.
Office of Binational Border Health/UCSD

Presenters:

Luis Natividad, B.A.
University of Texas at El Paso
The Neurochemical Effects of Nicotine
 Withdrawal are Different in Adolescent and Adult Rats

2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

New Investigators in Drug Abuse Research (Continued)

Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, Ph.D., M.P.H., RN.
University of Miami
The Syndemic Model for Understanding Substance Abuse, Intimate Partner Voiolence and HIV/AIDS among Hispanics

Juan Peña, Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis
Immigration Generation Status and its Association with Suicide Attempts, Substance Use, and Depressive Symptoms among Latino Adolescents in the United States

Jennifer Syversten
University of South Florida
Mapping Methadone: Using GIS for a multiple Indicator Analysis of Methadone Misuse in Florida

Kaliris Salas-Ramirez, Ph.D.
CUNY Medical School
Adolescent Anabolic Steroid Exposure affects Social Behaviors and Amygdalar Cell Proliferation

TBA International Speaker (Intl. Research Collaborations Committee to identify)

4:30 p.m.

Adjourn for the day for dinner non-attendees

6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Annual Awards Dinner & Dance