Michigan Association of Substance Addiction Providers
presents

2024 Virtual Conference

You are invited to join the MIASAP for an engaging and interactive, virtual conference. Renowned cannabis/marijuana subject matter experts will facilitate deeper insight into Michigan’s regulations, national trends associated with legalization, and youth prevention and intervention strategies.

This conference is suitable and valuable for Behavioral Health (SUD and Mental Health) leadership and direct service staff of treatment, recovery, and prevention programs.

This conference is worth 4.5 MCBAP credits, provided by DWIHN.

Executive Director
Michigan Cannabis Regulatory Agency

Presentation: An Overview of Michigan’s Cannabis Regulations

Brian Hanna was designated by Governor Whitmer to lead Michigan’s Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA) in December 2022. The CRA oversees the medical and adult use marijuana industries, regulates hemp-derived products, and runs the state’s medical marijuana registry card program. CRA’s mission is to establish Michigan as the national model for a regulatory program that stimulates business growth while preserving safe consumer access to cannabis.

Brian previously spent 5 years with the CRA as the manager of field operations, inspections, and investigations. He has a law enforcement and military background, having previously worked as a criminal intelligence manager and analyst with MSP and as a Deputy Sheriff for Kalamazoo County. He also served as a Captain in the United States Army Reserve with a combat deployment to Afghanistan from 2010-2011.

H. Guyford Stever University Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College

Presentation: Cannabis Use Trends Following Legalization

Jonathan P. Caulkins is the Stever University Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.  Dr. Caulkins specializes in systems analysis of the supply chains supporting illegal markets, particularly problems pertaining to drugs, crime, terror, violence and prevention.  Issues surrounding cannabis legalization, opioid markets and regulation, and COVID-19 have been a focus in recent years.  He recently co-authored the 2nd edition of his book Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press).  He is a past Co-director of RAND’s Drug Policy Research Center.  His work has earned him the David Kershaw Award from the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, a Robert Wood Johnson Health Investigator Award, and the INFORMS President’s Award.

The views Dr. Caulkins will offer are his own, and do not represent those of Carnegie Mellon or any other institution with which he is affiliated.

Project Manager, Illinois
Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC and PTTC

Presentation: Helping Adolescents Reduce Their Marijuana Use: Prevention and Intervention Strategies

Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC is the Project Manager Illinois for Great Lakes ATTC, Mental Health TTC and Prevention TTC. He is an international speaker and consultant in behavioral health whose presentations have reached thousands throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, West Indies, Lithuania and Guam. He is the recipient of four lifetime achievement awards including the prestigious NAADAC Enlightenment Award. He was one of three finalists for the National Association for Addiction Professionals 50th Anniversary Legends Award. Mark is also the recipient of the Illinois Certification Board’s Professional of the Year Award, The Illinois Certification Board, Jessica Hayes Lifetime Achievement Award and The Barbara Bacon Award for outstanding contributions to the social work profession as a Loyola University of Chicago alumni.

Mark is the author of five books on behavioral health recovery. Recent writings include: Slipping Through the Cracks: Intervention Strategies For Clients With Multiple Addictions Disorders and Relationship Detox: A Counselors Guide To Helping Clients Develop Healthy Relationships In Recovery. He was lead writer on a trauma informed gun violence prevention curriculum which is being implemented in several large cities in the United States. His groundbreaking monograph Recovery Management co- authored with historians William White and Earnest Kurtz helped shift substance use disorders treatment and recovery from the acute care model solely towards a Recovery Oriented System of Care. Mark has had two stories published in the New York Times bestselling book series, Chicken Soup for The Soul.

Mark has also had a 30 year career as a university educator having taught at The University of Chicago, Loyola University of Chicago and Illinois State University Schools of Social Work. He is co-founder of Serenity Academy Chicago, a program which sponsors recovery-oriented peer groups in local high schools.