| Year | Convenor | Host | Location | Program |
| 2025 | Rebecca Askew, Rob Ralphs and Niamh Eastwood | Drugs, Policy, and Social Change (DPSC) research group, Manchester Metropolitan University | Manchester, UK | Conference Program |
| 2024 |
Aïssata Sako Sarah Larney David Decary-Hetu |
The University of Montreal Health Centre (CHUM). | Montreal, Canada | Conference Program Book of Abstracts (Oral Presentations & Talks) Book of Abstracts (Posters) Book of Papers |
| 2023 |
Stijn Hoorens, Mafalda Pardal and Letizia Paoli | RAND Europe and KU Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | Program | Book of Abstracts |
| 2022 |
Claudia Costa-Storti & Rosalie Liccardo Pacula | EMCDDA | Lisbon Portugal | |
| 2019 |
Professor Karen A. Joe Laider | The 1st ISSDP Asian Regional Meeting Centre for Criminology, Hong Kong University |
Hong Kong | |
| 2019 |
Marie Jauffret-Roustide | Paris School of Economics | Paris, France | |
| 2018 | Neil Boyd, Martin Bouchard and Alissa Greer | Simon Fraser University | Vancouver, Canada | |
| 2017 | Vibeke Asmussen Frank | Center for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University
Slides and video from some of the Aarhus conference sessions are available to view. |
Aarhus, Denmark | |
| 2016 | Alison Ritter | National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), UNSW. Report by Alison Ritter and photos by Matt O’Reilly. | Sydney, Australia | |
| 2016 | Regional meeting on cannabis policy in the Americas | NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management | New York, USA | |
| 2015 | Tom Decorte | The Institute for Social Drug Research (ISD), University of Ghent | Ghent, Belgium | |
| 2014 | Carla Rossi | CNR Centre | Rome, Italy | |
| 2013 | Daniel Meija Londono | Universidad de los Andes | Bogota, Colombia | |
| 2012 | Alex Stevens | University of Kent | Canterbury, England | |
| 2011 | Franz Trautmann | Trimbos Institute | Utrecht, The Netherlands | |
| 2010 | Rosalie Pacula | RAND Corporation, DPRC | Santa Monica, USA | |
| 2009 | Sandeep Chawla | UNODC | Vienna, Austria | |
| 2008 | Henri Bergeron (Maria Moreira, Fatima Trigueiros, Frank Zobel) | EMCDAA and IDT | Lisbon, Portugal | |
| 2007 | Pia Rosenqvist | Nordic Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research and the Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research | Olso, Norway |
Recent Conferences:
18th Annual ISSDP Conference
The 18th annual ISSDP conference 11-13 June 2025, was hosted by the Drugs, Policy, and Social Change (DPSC) research group at Manchester Metropolitan University, envisaged a transformative dialogue on drug policy grounded in social justice. Our aim was to foster an inclusive platform where diverse voices from affected communities, practitioners, and policymakers converge to explore and address the complexities of drug policy processes and formation.
https://www.issdp.org/18th-annual-issdp-conference-2025/
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.
The International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP) was selected as one of just 6 organizations co-producing a thematic track at the Lisbon Addictions conference (October 23-25, 2019). This led to 16 sessions and 65 presentations emphasizing high-quality research focused on developing robust data, improved monitoring approaches, and multidisciplinary analytic methods that provides a strong scientific basis for the development of new drug policies or tools to better implement and evaluate their effects. This was the largest co-produced stream at the conference.
To see the final program go to: https://www.lisbonaddictions.eu/lisbon-addictions-2019/tracks/improving-data-methods-and-analysis
