ISSDP Sub Committees
We have several subcommittees of the ISSDP, and we are looking for support from our members in each of the following areas below. If you are interested in joining any subcommittee or to simply learn more, please reach out to the sub-committee leads:
- Nominations and Elections – Aileen O’Gorman [Aileen.O’Gorman@uws.ac.uk]
- Excellence in Research Award – TBD
- Scholarships for Annual Meetings – Beau Kilmer [kilmer@rand.org]
- Selecting Hosts for Annual Meetings – Liesbeth Vandam [Liesbeth.Vandam@euda.europa.eu]
- Webinars to Promote ISSDP Research – Rebecca Askew [R.Askew@mmu.ac.uk]
- Mentoring – Peter Reuter [preuter@umd.edu]
- Outreach & Collaboration with Existing Partners – Caitlin Hughes & Aileen O’Gorman [caitlin.hughes@flinders.edu.au // aileen.o’gorman@uws.ac.uk]
- Outreach & Collaboration with New Partners – Bronwyn Myers and Marie Jauffret-Roustide [bronwyn.myers-franchi@curtin.edu.au // marie.jauffret-roustide@inserm.fr]
- Global South Engagement – Gideon Lasco [pdlasco@up.edu.ph]
ISSDP/ESC Working Group on European Drug Policy
This working group is a joint initiative between the ISSDP and the European Society of Criminology. It brings together members of both societies who share an interest in drug policy in Europe.
Upcoming activities: 2025 EUROCRIM Conference – Athens , Greece
- The ISSDP/ESC Working Group on European Drug Policy will be hosting an informal meet-up at the 2025 EUROCRIM Conference in Athens on the night of 4th September 2025.
- This will be a chance for drug policy researchers to meet up informally, and discuss topics of mutual interest.
- If you would like to attend, please email Alex Stevens (alex.stevens@sheffield.ac.uk).
- The ISSDP/ESC Working Group will also be running thematic sessions on drug policy at the conference.
Past activities:
2024 EUROCRIM – Bucharest, Romania
The ISSDP/ESC Working Group on European Drug Policy ran a drugs and crime sub-theme at the 2024 EUROCRIM Conference in Bucharest with sessions on Drugs across borders: international research on drug trafficking networks; Cannabis and cannabinoids; Drugs, crime and criminal justice; and Online Markets, drugs, treatment and harm reduction.
The Working Group also held a meet up in Bucharest which attracted over 20 drug policy researchers for an informal gathering and exchange of ideas.
Past activities:
Drugs in prison: Panel of the joint ISSDP/ESC working group on European drug policy at the ISSDP conference, 2018:
- Paul Gray, Rob Ralphs & Lisa Williams, ‘Harm reduction or a catalyst for new harms: The consequences of substance use legislation on drug use & markets in an English prison‘
- Linn Gjersing & Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen, ‘Using Linked Administrative Data to Examine the Impact of the Seizure and Investigation of Illegal Drug Consignments on Local Communities’
- Charlie Lloyd, Neil McKeganey, Alison Liebling, Geoff Page & Christopher Russell, ‘Faltering Recovery: the British experiment with Drug Recovery Wings‘
- Liesbeth Vandam, Linda Montanari, Tim Surmont, Prem Borlé, Alessandro Pirona, Dagmar Hedrich, & Jane Mounteney, ‘The challenge of new psychoactive substances in the prison context – a European overview‘
Researching cryptomarkets: Panel of the joint ISSDP/ESC working group on European drug policy at the ESC conference, 2017:
- David Décary-Hétu, ‘With a Strong Bubble Gum Taste”: Becoming a Successful Cocaine Vendor on Darknet Markets‘
- Ben Matthews, ‘‘Using Linked Administrative Data to Examine the Impact of the Seizure and Investigation of Illegal Drug Consignments on Local Communities‘
Drug Policy Analysis: Panel session at the 2015 conference of the European Society of Criminology
- Marianne van Ooyen, ‘Dutch drug policy-Changes and their impact on drug markets’
- Letizia Paoli, ‘The harms of cocaine trafficking in the Netherlands and Belgium: policy implications from comparative assessment.’
- Caitlin Hughes, ‘Australian alternatives to arrest and imprisonment for drug and drug-related offenders: assessing program and system outcomes.’
Meeting on Portuguese drug policy: domestic and international perspectives. Porto, 2nd September 2015.
- João Goulão, ‘The current state of development of Portuguese drug policy’
- Cristina Reis, ‘The implementation of Portuguese drug policy: issues for CDTs’
- Maria dos Anjos, ‘The implementation of Portuguese drug policy: issues for CDTs’
- Caitlin Hughes, ‘The international use and misuse of the Portuguese example’
- Helmut Kury, ‘A view from Europe’
- Serge Brochu, ‘A view from North America’
- Jorge Qunitas, ‘Portuguese drug use decriminalisation and law enforcement: Impacts and perceptions of its effectiveness‘
European drug policy and international reforms, Panel at the 2015 conference of the ISSDP
- Caroline Chatwin, ‘International drug policy reform: lessons from Europe’
- Renaud Colson, ‘Cannabis regulation in Europe: US legal transplant ahead?’
- Christine Guillain, ‘The UN Drug Control Treaties: What constraints on Europe?‘
- Ann Fordham, ‘Europe and the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs – complacency or the “third way”?’
