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, PhD (Senior Research Fellow at The French National Centre for Scientific Research), Sandeep Chawla, Ph.D., (Head of Research and Policy Analysis at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Christine Godfrey (Professor of Health Economics at the Department of Health Sciences and Centre for Health Economics at the University of York, UK), Keith Humphreys (Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University and a Career Research Scientist in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs), and Pia Rosenqvist (Head of the Nordic Centre for Drug and Alcohol Research (NAD.) Alex Stevens (University of Kent, UK), is the ISSDP Secretary.