Welcome to the International Society for the Study of Drug
Policy (ISSDP)
Many nations are committed to addressing problems arising
from the use, distribution and control of illegal drugs.
Policies to deal with these issues are becoming more explicit
and a growing number of scientific analysts, within and outside
of government, have become interested in understanding the
effects of drug policies. The ISSDP aims to:
- Develop relations among these analysts and thus strengthen
the field.
- Be a forum for high quality drug policy analysis.
- Develop the scientific base for policy decisions.
- Improve the interface between researchers and policy
makers.
The ISSDP Coordinating Committee is chaired by Professor
Peter Reuter of the University of Maryland, USA
. Its Vice-President is Alison Ritter,
Associate Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research
Centre, Australia.
The other Committee members are:
- Henri Bergeron (Senior Research Fellow
at The French National Centre for Scientific Research)
- Sandeep Chawla, (Head of Research and
Policy Analysis at the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime (UNODC)
- Börje Olsson (SoRAD, the Centre
for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs at Stockholm University,
Sweden)
- Pia Rosenqvist (Nordic Council for Alcohol
and Drug Research)
- Tomáš Zábranský (Centre
for Addictology of the Psychiatric Clinic of the 1st Faculty
of Medicine and the General University Hospital of Charles
University, Czech Republic)
- Alex Stevens (University of Kent, UK),
is the ISSDP Secretary.
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