Together with Dianova International, we are hosting an important webinar:

🎤 Healing Trauma in Substance Use: An Intersectional Approach to Care and Rights
🗓️ October 27, 2025 | 🕒 15:00–16:30 CET
💻 Virtual Event | English & Spanish 

This 90-minute seminar will gather global voices to explore how trauma lies at the core of many substance use challenges — and how rights-based, gender-sensitive, and intersectional responses can make a difference. 

Join renowned experts, practitioners, and voices of lived experience as we: 

• Explore how trauma and substance use intersect across identity and systems 
• Highlight global strategies to embed trauma-informed care in recovery models 
• Uplift inclusive, human rights-based solutions that leave no one behind 

🎤 Confirmed Speakers: 

• Angela Me: UNODC- Chief Research and Trend Analysis Branch (Opening remarks) 
• Ivelina Mincheva: Nezavisima (Bulgaria) 
• Asia Ashraf: Greenfield Hospital of Psychiatry (Pakistan) 
• Paula Lozano: University of Girona (Spain) 
• Rocio Suárez Ordoñez: TSAFI  
• Cassandra Bandfor and Anges Chen: Starlings Community (Canada) 

Register here to attend!

📢 If you or someone on your team works in trauma-informed addiction care — especially in relation to gender, migration, poverty, or discrimination — we’d love to hear from you. Deadline: October 9. 🔗