The European Federation of Therapeutic Communities (EFTC) Conference successfully holds biennial conferences since 1982 that aim to provide to member organizations and colleagues from all disciplines of drug treatment provision the opportunity to present, question, clarify and communicate the results, and evaluation of the processes of addiction recovery achieved in TCs.

• Chair: Rowdy Yates, EFTC, Scotland
• EFTC conference opening remarks - Sushma D. Taylor, World Federation of Therapeutic Communities, United States of America
• The times they are changing: drug use and responses in the European Union - Alexis Goosdeel, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
• The complex multifactorial mechanism of addiction - Gilberto Gerra, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• Therapeutic communities for addictions: reflection and re-envision - George De Leon, New York University, United States of America

SYMPOSIUM : The challenge to maintain integrity

• Chair: Rod Mullen, Amity Foundation, United States of America
• Discussant: George De Leon, New York University, United States of America
• Role of the CEO in planning and execution - Rod Mullen, Amity Foundation, United States of America
• The integrity of the community - Naya Arbiter, Amity Foundation, United States of America
• The complexities of transition - Robin Rettmer, Amity Foundation, United States of America
• The incoming CEO: understanding the job and the role - Doug Bond, Amity Foundation, United States of America

• Chair: Phaedon Kaloterakis, Therapy Center for Dependent Individuals (KETHEA), Greece 
• Addictions, recovery and employment - Oriol Esculies, Association Proyecto Hombre, Spain
• Space, healing traumatic experiences through art in a prison therapeutic community - Charalampos Poulopoulos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
• The "Bottoms Up" perspective in the therapeutic community - Naya Arbiter, Amity Foundation, United States of America
• The development and evolution of KETHEA training programmes - Anna Tsiboukli, Therapy Center for Dependent Individuals (KETHEA), Greece
• "Right Living": a practical guide for TCs in the age of climate change - Rod Mullen, Amity Foundation, United States of America

SYMPOSIUM : The Therapeutic Community: principles, outcomes and future directions - George De Leon, New York University, United States of America Rowdy Yates, EFTC, Scotland

SYMPOSIUM : Adapting the Therapeutic Community model in response to austerity in the UK Phoenix Futures

• Chair: Karen Biggs, Phoenix Futures, United Kingdom
• Discussants: Bob Campbell, Phoenix Futures, United Kingdom, Gary Rogerson, Phoenix Futures, United Kingdom, James Armstrong, Phoenix Futures, United Kingdom
• Developing the modern TC in an environment of austerity - Karen Biggs, Phoenix Futures, United Kingdom
• The therapeutic community model thriving in a highly regulated care environment - Gary Rogerson, Phoenix Futures, United Kingdom
• Responding to changing service user needs and expectations - James Armstrong, Phoenix Futures, United Kingdom

• Chair: Rowdy Yates, EFTC, Scotland
• Principles of treatment of justice involved clients with substance use disorders - What works and how to make it work? = Igor Koutsenok, University of California San Diego, United States of America
• Therapeutic communities and financial crisis: the KETHEA case - Vasileios Gitakos, Therapy Center for Dependent Individuals (KETHEA), Greece
• Reflections on the evolution of TCs in order to address the new era of drug addiction treatment - Stelios Gkiouzepas, "ARGO" Alternative Therapeutic Program for Addicted Individuals, Greece
• Flow strategies-comeback of rehabilitation - Thomas Legl, European Treatment Centres for Drug addiction, Austria

 THEMATIC SESSION

• Chair: Keith Warren, The Ohio State University, United States of America
• The challenges of continuity - Doug Bond, Amity Foundation, United States of America
• Significant changes in therapeutic program KETHEA Ithaki in northern Greece - Vasilis Kalampalikis, KETHEA ITHAKI, Greece
• Developing the modern TC in an environment of austerity - Karen Biggs, Phoenix Futures, United Kingdom
• Integrating critical scientific approaches and self-help/mutual aid practices as a progressive answer to the contemporary needs in the field of addiction - Sotiris Lainas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

• Chair: Dirk Vandevelde, De Kiem, Belgium
• Integration: too much of a bad thing? - Rowdy Yates, EFTC, Scotland
• The implementation of policies in the field of addiction – the Cyprus example - Chrysanthos Georgiou, Cyprus National Addictions Authority, Cyprus
• The custodian’s fear of the therapy – reflections on radical experiments in rehabilitation - Joe Cullen, Tavistock Institute, United Kingdom
• Trauma, addiction and recovery: helping clients forge a new path - Lisa Najavits, University of Massachusetts, United States of America
• It’s all Greek to me: understanding TC evolution - Phaedon Kaloterakis, Therapy Center for Dependent Individuals (KETHEA), Greece

SYMPOSIUM - In-prison therapeutic communities in Romania and the Republic of Moldova

• Chair/Discussant: Robert Teltzrow, Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe,Germany
• Comprehensive drug treatment systems in prisons – the Pompidou Group’s approach - Orsolya Gancsos, Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe, France, Robert Teltzrow, Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe, Germany
• International cooperation on therapeutic communities - Cristina Teoroc, National Administration of Penitentiaries of Romania, Romania, Rune Hafstad, NGO Phoenix Haga, Norway
• Catharsis – the new in-prison therapeutic community in the Republic of Moldova - Vladislav Busmachiu, National Administration of Penitentiaries of the Republic of Moldova, Republic of Moldova, Ina Vutcariov, NGO Initiativa Pozitiva, Republic of Moldova
• Expert advice- extending good practices and outlook - Moderation: Robert Teltzrow, Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe, Germany, Panelists: Rowdy Yates, EFTC, Scotland, Christos Kouimtsidis, Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe, Greece, Karen Biggs, Phoenix Futures, United Kingdom

• Rowdy Yates, Phaedon Kaloterakis
• “Giannis Mantakas” Choir of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki