The International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP) is a society of scholars committed to advancing drug policy research.
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Forthcoming Events
ISSDP One-Day Side-Event Conference to Lisbon Addictions – Tuesday November 22, 2022.
ISSDP will be holding a one-day, in-person meeting in Lisbon on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 prior to the 2022 Lisbon Addictions Conference, to a) provide an opportunity for ISSDP members to see each other again in person and b) to present and discuss drug policy research that is not covered in the main Lisbon addictions conference.
15th Annual ISSDP Conference
Lisbon, November 2022
Lisbon Addictions Conference, Wednesday – Friday November 23-25, 2022.
ISSDP is co-producing the thematic track on Current and Future Challenges in Global Drug Policy.
Present your work at one of the UK’s biggest addictions conferences.
The SSA is now accepting abstracts for oral presentations (deadline: 3 July 2022) and poster presentations (deadline: 14 August 2022) for its Annual Conference on 3 and 4 November 2022.
Recent Events
ISSDP and UNODC Virtual Side Event at the 65th Commission on Narcotics Drugs meeting on the Policy Impact of Cannabis Legalization from a Scientific Perspective. Tuesday, 15 March 2022
The virtual side event explored scientific evidence on the implications of cannabis legalization. As of April 2021, legal provisions that allow the non-medical use of cannabis have been adopted in Canada, Uruguay and in 20 jurisdictions of the United States. The purpose of the discussion was to look at the complexities of the research evidence related to cannabis markets in these countries and assess to what extent this evidence can inform about the net impact of cannabis legalization. Factual evidence was discussed on a wide range of possible impacts, from public health-related to implications for other social phenomena.
A video of this webinar is available to ISSDP members
ISSDP Membership General Assembly Meeting
ISSDP held a virtual general assembly meeting of its members on Tuesday, February 1st 2022. In addition to agenda items, we held a “Meet the Author” event with Alison Ritter, author of Drug Policy.