Workshop Two: Setting up for success: LAIB services made simple
| Sunday, August 3, 2025 |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
| C2.2 + C2.3 |
| Sponsored By: |
Details
Long-acting injectable buprenorphine (LAIB) is an effective and convenient treatment for opioid dependence, offering significant advantages for both patients and healthcare providers. With its improved safety profile, simpler dosing regimen, and ease of administration, LAIB presents a valuable opportunity for pharmacists to expand their role in opioid treatment. This workshop will provide pharmacists with the knowledge and practical skills needed to set up and operate an LAIB administration service, while also enhancing communication strategies with patients and demonstrating proper administration techniques. The workshop will begin with an educational session on how to set up and run an LAIB service within a pharmacy or clinical setting. This will include an overview of the infrastructure required, the legal and regulatory framework, and strategies for collaborating with opioid treatment prescribers to ensure effective patient care. Following this, a panel discussion will focus on best practices for communicating with patients who are opioid dependent, with an emphasis on overcoming stigma, building trust, and supporting patient adherence to LAIB therapy. Finally, a hands-on practical demonstration will guide participants through the correct technique for administering LAIB, highlighting any differences between available formulations and ensuring safe, effective injection practices.
Learning objectives
- Describe the operation of an LAIB administration service, ensuring effective integration with relevant prescribers.
- Discuss appropriate communication strategies to engage with and support patients who are opioid dependent.
- Demonstrate correct administration techniques for various LAIB products, ensuring patient safety and optimal outcomes.
Competency standards (2016): 1.3, 2.3, 3.2.
Speakers
John Jones
Pharmacist/Owner
My Community Pharmacy Shortland
Workshop Two: Setting up for success: LAIB services made simple
Biography
John Jones is a pharmacist who is passionate about delivering patient focused services in the pharmacy. He is the owner of My Community Pharmacy Shortland that offers integrated healthcare with Karitane infant health, Podiatry, Nutrition, Diabetes, Nursing and Allied Health Services.
The pharmacy’s purpose is to be an integral part of the healthcare team and work collaboratively with other healthcare providers to improve the health of the community. He holds a Master of Pharmacy, Master of Business Administration, Nutrition and Dietetics along with a Graduate Certificate in Diabetes Education.
The pharmacy runs a buprenorphine depot injection clinic, opioid treatment program and medication compounding service.
Shawnee Rose
Health Education Officer / Health Promotion Campaigner / Consumer Action Group Staff Support
Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre
Workshop Two : Setting up for success: LAIB services made simple
Biography
Shawnee Rose is a dedicated harm reductionist and advocate. Walking the boundary between peer and professional in the Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) sector, they emphasise integrating lived experience into their work. Shawnee currently works as a Health Education Officer at the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC), where they are an active member of the Health Promotion Team and the Consumer Action Group. Their extensive experience includes roles with several prominent AOD organisations, including NUAA, KRC, and Unharm.
Holding a diploma in Counselling, Shawnee is a Director on the Governing Board of We Can Recover - CPTSD Charity, provides expert consultation for Psychedelic Assisted Therapy and recently contributed to the NSW Drug Summit.
Committed to volunteerism, Shawnee has offered their time and expertise to DanceWize NSW and has sat on multiple panels, such as at NUAA’s Peers and Consumers Forum, participated in NADA webinars and held Community Consultation for Unharm as a Public Innovator.
Kevin Street
Workshop Two: Setting up for success: LAIB services made simple
Biography
Kevin Street is currently a member of several consumer advisory groups (CAG) and committees, including for NADA, Kirketon Road Centre, the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) and the Ministry of Health. He is also a LLE representative on the MOH Quality in Treatment Committee.
He is part of a steering committee to encourage GPs and pharmacists to prescribe and dispense Buvidal, an opioid replacement therapy. He is a volunteer with the Uniting Fair Treatment campaign and is supporting the development of training modules for AOD nursing students with the University of Technology Sydney. Kevin received an AOD Award from NADA for Outstanding contribution in peer work and/or consumer representation. He has presented at APSAD on two occasions and is a peer worker at NUAA needle and syringe program. Kevin is a passionate advocate for the decriminalisation of personal possession and use of all drugs.
Dr Hester Wilson
Phd Student And Doctor
NSW Health
Workshop Two: Setting up for success: LAIB services made simple
Biography
A GP and Addiction specialist, chair of the RACGP Addiction Specific Interest Group, a clinician with many years clinical and teaching experience, Hester works as Chief Addiction Medicine Specialist for NSW, Clinical Director for Murrumbidgee LHD Drug and Alcohol, as Medical Advisor for Population and Community Heath in SESLHD and in private practice in Sydney. She is currently undertaking a PhD focused on GPs’ experience of patients with chronic pain and prescription opioid dependence.
