Lunch Session 8E | Workshop: Improving palliative care for people who use alcohol and other drugs
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| Wednesday, November 12, 2025 |
| 12:25 PM - 1:10 PM |
| Parkside Pre-Function Area |
Details
Chair: Grace Fitzgerald
Speaker
Dr Grace FitzGerald
Addiction Medicine Trainee
Western Health
Dr Thileepan Naren
Addiction Medicine Specialist
Western Health
Associate Professor Peter Higgs
Principal Research Fellow
Burnet Institute
Mr Sione Crawford
CEO
Harm Reduction Victoria
Workshop Presenter
12:15 PM - 1:10 PMBiography
Sione Crawford has been working in peer-based organisations of people who use drugs since 2004.
He has worked as a peer-educator, in community development and in policy and leadership positions.
Sione has lived and living experience of hepatitis C treatment, injecting drug use, opioid dependence treatment and the stigma and discrimination that attaches to these experiences.
Sione is currently the CEO of Harm Reduction Victoria: the organisation representing people who use drugs in Victoria, Australia. HRVic works with their community to ensure access to health care and human rights for people who use drugs. HRVic also provides peer- based services from festival harm reduction to needle and syringe programs to system and peer navigation and is instrumental in developing the lived and living workforce in Victoria.
Chair
Grace FitzGerald
Addiction Medicine Trainee
Western Health