The International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP) is a society of scholars committed to advancing drug policy research.
El ISSDP el sitio web ahora está disponible en Español.
New ISSDP Board Members
We are delighted to welcome five new members to the ISSDP board:
- Yatan Pal Singh Balhara – Professor of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
- Marie Jauffret-Roustide – Sociologist and Senior Research Fellow at the French Institute of Health and Medical Research, France
- Alissa Greer – Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Bronwyn Myers – Professor and Director of Curtin University’s enAble Institute, Australia. Prior Deputy Director of the South African Medical Research Council’s Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Research Unit.
- Jessicia Storbjörk – Associate Professor of Sociology and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden.
A huge thanks to everyone who ran and congratulations to our new board members!
18th Annual ISSDP Conference
Save the date: ISSDP 2025 in Manchester, UK, June 11 to 13.
ISSDP trustee Rebecca Askew will be hosting the ISSDP conference at Manchester Metropolitan University from the 11 to 13 June 2025. We look forward to seeing you there.
Forthcoming Events:
ISSDP Track at the 2024 Lisbon Addictions Conference
The 2024 Lisbon Addictions Conference will run from 23 October – 25 October 2024. We are running an ISSDP track titled ‘Drug policy: latest development and new challenges.’ The track includes over 50 papers and is focused on assessing the latest developments and challenges in drug policies across the globe, and their implications for policy and practice. For details go to: https://www.lisbonaddictions.eu/lisbon-addictions-2024/programme
To hear a podcast about the ISSDP track go to: https://www.lisbonaddictions.eu/lisbon-addictions-2024/content/podcast#episode5
Recent Events:
17th Annual ISSDP Conference
The seventeenth annual meeting of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP) was held in Tiotià:ke/Montreal, Canada, from 19 June – 21 June 2024 at the University of Montreal Health Centre (CHUM).
Please click here to see photos from the conference.
Pictures courtesy of Véronique Moisan.