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Deepening a shared understanding of the chemsex landscape in the Capital, exploring the impact on individuals and services, and strengthening the health and harm reduction response.
Following the success of the first London Chemsex Conference in June 2024 * two further conferences are being arranged for 11 October and 15 November 2024, with a fourth conference date likely in early 2024. The conferences are smaller events for 60 delegates with an emphasis on shorter presentations, Q&A, discussion, opportunities for learning and work group sessions.
Objectives
Understand the chemsex landscape, including prevalence. Understand how chemsex harms impact health service provision. Explore practical solutions with a focus on harm reduction. Draw up priorities to strengthen the Capital’s response.
What to expect
A day of knowledge and learning with practitioners and specialists from the fields of chemsex, harm reduction, and sexual health; and colleagues from the voluntary, statutory, and governmental sectors. Printed and online resources will be available throughout the day.
What you will be doing
You will hear from practitioners in treatment, harm reduction, health and monitoring groups, and those with lived experience.
Programme highlights **
- Defining chemsex and prevalence in the Capital.
- An overview of the chemsex landscape including lived experiences.
Five short, interconnected, presentations: the hook-up and chemsex scene (an overview); problematic chemsex (inc. mental, sexual, health wellbeing issues); navigating harm reduction, abstinence, and sober sex; sexual assault, rape, and murder; navigating (statutory service) support and care pathways - Chemsex practices (inc. demonstration) within the context of sexualised drug use.
- Understanding the chemsex landscape through service provision.
Five short, interconnected, presentations by: London Ambulance Service, London Emergency Department, Antidote @ London Friend, LGBT+ Independent Advisory Group, and Gay Men’s Health Collective - Harm reduction v criminal justice
- Chemsex harm reduction tool for London Ambulance Service (LAS) crews
- Group work, part 1: based on delegate questions and queries
- Group work, part 2: next steps and takeaways
Your query or question
When you buy a ticket(s), part of your involvement is to submit a query of question about any aspect of chemsex which will be included anonymously as part of the PM group sessions. So, please decide this before you buy.
Tickets £25
This event is run on a not for profit basis. Tickets include refreshments and lunch and cover running costs.
* Conference report
** Subject to change