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“IT WAS SILLY BECAUSE THESE WERE PROFESSORS AND INTERNATIONALLY LEADING ADDICTION MEDICINE SPECIALISTS”


Dr Alex Baldachinno


ences, and an extensive and detailed business plan, but also because it ran an arts and cultural festival in parallel with the conference. He added: “We included 200 art


The International Society of Addiction Medicine’s annual congress took place at Caird Hall in Dundee


proposal for ISAM to take place for the first time in the UK. He formally lodged the bid for Dundee to be the hosts at the congress two years ago in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which was unanimously accepted after beating rival bids from India, Abu Dhabi, Rio De Janeiro and Turkey. Even though some delegates


initially thought Dundee was either a suburb of Edinburgh or a ‘town in Canada’, Dr Baldachinno added, the city managed to attract more del- egates than Tokyo last year or Kuala Lumpur in 2013, which had 400 and 300 respectively. “We’ve done really, really well. It was really busy. Te largest confer-


Dr Alex Baldachinno wrote a letter in support of the Iranian academics


ence the city had before was a na- tional event for 500 people. Tis was bigger and it has given a confidence boost to Dundee,” added Dr Bal- dachinno, who is also an addiction medicine clinician. Dr Baldachinno also praised the


city’s bid not only for its excellent international reputation in the sci-


students from Duncan of Jordan- stone College of Art & Design to create 100 exhibits with service users. Tey used film, photography and animation – which was de- signed with service users. It was a great addition to the conference, and something very different to the usual world congresses.” A Home Office spokeswoman said:


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