The ultimate peak of the Halfway House Project’s advocacy activities is the establishment of and participation in 2 policy conferences. The first with participation of more than 100 participants and combined with an addiction treatment workshop lasting a couple of days were arranged in January 2010 in Danang in mid-Vietnam with the participation of governmental and community authorities within the field of addiction (..and HIV/Aids), social counselling staff from out-patient clinics for addicts and governmental/community addiction centers all over Vietnam as well as both local and international non-governmental organisations.