PRESENTATION

Anne Coppel is a public health sociologist, committed to her work for harm reduction  from drug use. She is an activist in drug law reform and human rights. For more than 25 years, Anne Coppel has been a leading researcher in the areas of drug use, drug policy and treatment, HIV/AIDS, harm reduction. Her work includes studies of heroin addiction, methadone maintenance treatment, MDMA (Ecstasy), cocaine, crackers use,  women living with AIDS and sex workers.

Anne Coppel receiving IHRA’s International Rolleston Award in 1995

First specialized in social policies, she taught at the University of Paris 13 from 1972 to 1989. She began her work in the field of drug policy in 1982 comparing European drug policies
During the 80’s, she had led researches on drug use in Paris and surrounding suburbs.  From 1989 to 2001, she  assisted governmental aid agencies and NGOs (such as Médecins du Monde, Aides) at all levels and has designed programmes targeting specific groups such as  “hard-to-reach” population and those vulnerable to problematic drug use, risk factors associated with social exclusion, commercial sex workers.

In 1990, she established the first experimental methadone program for 12 patients. In 1993, she started a second program with 50 methadone patients and in 1995 to 2001, she established an experimental methadone program between specialized centers and general practitioners (1000 outpatients per year). She also worked with community groups to set up front line services as  syringe exchanges and out reach services.

Since 2002, Anne Coppel has worked as a consultant on HIV/AIDS and drug use in France, in La Martinique and some others countries (Ukraina, Russia, Poland, Algeria, Morocco). She is an adviser for an extensive range of programmes and services (community-based services, medical network, treatment centers).

She was instrumental in the development of harm reduction in France as a response to HIV/AIDS. and in the introduction of methadone treatment to drug users, it called for public debate in which she assisted in leading as president of a committee of 44 NGO’s (named “limiter la casse”). She initiated the 1st International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm in France (Saint Tropez, 1993), she was president of the 8th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm (Paris, 1997). She is currently the Honorary President of AFR (the french national harm reduction organisation).

She has written over 150 scientific articles and book chapters. In particular, she has personnally published two books. 11 articles has been translated into English. Her work has been recognised with various awards including IHRA’s International Rolleston Award.

PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH

Guidelines for Local, Participative and Integrated Responses to the Issue of Drugs
Drug Use, Frontline Services and Local Policies —Guidelines for Elected Officials at the Local Level ,  "Democracy, Cities and Drugs" Project, European Forum
for Urban Safety, 2008

Opioid Replacement Therapy  -  Clinical Pratice
Good Practice, Good  Results, Maintenance Treatment Outcomes, Heroin Addiction et Rel Clin Probl 2005

Opioid Replacement Therapy - French Issues — National Symposium
The Institutional and Historical Context of Introduction
of Opioid Replacement Therapy in France, and the Situation of France in this Field Compared to Other Comparable Countries,  Alcoologie et addictologie december 2004, pp. 575-675, translated in English
for the Yearbook 2004

A Study about the Practices on Substitution Treatment in the European Union (participation
for France)
Study on the Legal Aspects of Substitution Treatment
for Opioid Dependent Drug Users : an Insight into Nine European Countries, Karolien Meuwissen, 2002

Harm reduction - A Change of Practice 
From Prevention to Care a New Approach to Drug Use,
in Peddro; special edition, UNESCO and Unaids,
december 2001, pp. 76-78

Hard-To-Reach Problematic Drugs Users
The Outreach Method, the Difficult Art of Reaching
 the Very Fringes of Society, in Peddro, special edition,
UNESCO and Unaids, december 2001, pp. 98-99

General Pratictioner and Specialists
Evaluation Survey of a Methadone Treatment Share Care Programme between a Specialized Clinic and a Network
of GPs, Research Report, Heroin Add & Rel Clin Probl, Contributors : Anne Coppel, J.F. Bloch-Laine, Y. Charpak and R. Spira ; 3 (2) : 21-28, 2001

Policies in Change
Drug Policy, the French Situation, in A. Springer and A. Uhl (Eds), Illicit Drugs, Patterns of Use, Pattern of Response, StudienVerlag, Innsbruck  2000, pp. 115-123

General Pratictioner and Specialists
An Evaluation Study on Share Care Methadone Treatment between a Specialized Clinic and a Network of General Practitioners, Policy Initiatives, Heroin Add & Rel Clin Probl ; 2 (2) : 29-33, 2000

The Role Of "Substitution Treatment" 
Preliminary Observations In Substitution Treatment
of Opioid Dependence, for The International Center
for Advencement of Addiction Treatment website, 2000

Activits, Professionals, and Drug Users — Communautary Mobilisation
Strategy for Change : The French Situation,
The International Journal of Drug Policy, n°9,
1998, pp. 293-296, Editorial

The Diversity of Methadone Provision across
the European Region (supplying information
for France)
Methadone in Europe, Ernst Buning, The International Journal of Drug Policy, vol 5, n°4, 1994

Harm reduction - First Experiment
Harm Reduction in France, in AIDS and Drug Addiction
in the European Community REISINGER M. (Ed.), European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug
Addiction, Commission of the European Communities,
Sept. 1993, pp. 71-78

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PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS IN FRENCH