In examining New York’s drug policies, the conference will engage with an upcoming report by DPA and The New York Academy of Medicine: Blueprint for a Public Health Safety Approach to Drug Policy.
Australian Drug Foundation have organized a free webinar in Melbourne about new and emerging drugs, that represent one of the biggest challenges in the alcohol and other drug field for 2013 in Australia.
'Governing the Global Drug Wars' report editor John Collins and drug policy expert Coletta Youngers will launch London School of Economics- IDEAS report on Washington DC.
The course aims to situate drug policies globally within a framework of human rights, and to assess the extent to which country and international drug policies fail to meet human rights standards.
In 2010, the Government launched a new drug strategy to counter the harmful effects of drug and alcohol dependence in society. The twin aims of the strategy were to reduce harmful drug use and increase the numbers recovering from their dependence. The work is structured around three themes – reducing demand, restricting supply and building recovery in communities.
The Scottish Government is bringing together a range of experts, including the police, health experts and community organisations to discuss how the problem of legal highs in Scotland can be tackled.
The 2013 conference will be an opportunity to re-engage professionals and academics in the fields of human rights and policing, and to create a discourse about issues that face police in the 21st Century.
Edited by Intercambios with the support of the Levi Strauss Foundation, this publication retrieves working strategies used by different teams that address problematic drug use.
Governance Studies at Brookings and WOLA will host a public forum with two leading scholars and two key politicians to examine the legal and political choices in USA after Colorado and Washington marijuana regulation.
This is the third debate organised by the Open Society Foundations' Global Drug Policy Program and the CEU School of Public Policy. It will be held on 11 April 2013, at 5:30pm in the CEU Auditorium.
This Conference aims to dovetail policy and practice under the national Road to Recovery Drug Strategy with these emerging themes within the Scottish criminal justice system – thereby improving responses at policy development, planning and practice levels to people with substance problems in the criminal justice system.