EUROPAD “CHIMERA” AWARD

A few words to explain why we chose the name “Chimera” for this award.

Chimera was a monster in the Greek mythology: it had a lion head, a goat body  and a dragon tail: being a monster, it can well represent drug addiction as a monster that must be defeated.

But, in the poetical language, the term “Chimera” means unrealizable dreams, impossible imaginations: and in this sense, it still well represents the attempt made by doctors of realizing their dream of helping drug addicts.

In both senses, therefore, we can say that some kind of physicians, those who try to treat drug addiction, run after “chimeras”, both to kill the monster, and to realize their dream of helping drug addicts.

The Europad Chimera Award has been given to:

2010 (Zagreb, Croatia)

Sergey Dvoryak (Kiev, Ukraine)

Luis Patricio (Lisbon, Portugal, EU)

Slavko Sakoman (Zagreb, Croatia)

Loretta Finnegan (Avalon, NJ, USA) - Career Award

2008 (Sofia, Bulgaria)

Gabriele Fischer (Vienna, Austria, EU))

Andrej Kastelic (Ljubljana, Slovenia, EU)

Didier Touzeau (Paris, France, EU)

2007 ( Pietrasanta, Italy)

Joyce Lowinson (USA) received a Special Chimera Award,
during the 3rd EUROPAD-ITALIA Conference

2006 (Bratislava, Slovak Republic)

Gilberto Gerra (Italy)

Marta Torrens (Spain)

Ante Ivancic (Croatia)

2004 (Paris, France)

Pier Paolo Pani (Italy)

Jean-Jacques Deglon (Switzerland)

Alexander Kantchelov (Bulgaria)

Icro Maremmani (Italy), Marc Reisinger (Belgium) and Alessandro Tagliamonte (Italy) received a Carreer Chimera Award

2002 (Oslo, Norway)

Marc Auriacombe (France)

Mercedes Lovrecic (Slovenia)

Lubomir Okhrulica (Slovak Republic)

2000 (Valenzano, Arezzo, Italy)

Olof Blix (Sweden)