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Past Webinars

Webinar: Changing Drug Markets in Africa – Research and Policy Issues

October 6th 2021, 3-4.30 pm CET

This seminar, organized by the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP) in collaboration with the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), aims to contribute to expanding the research base on drug markets in Africa. Further, it seeks to highlight vital ongoing research within the region demonstrating the ever more complex relation between transnational and local drug markets. The seminar incorporates a multidisciplinary approach, grounded in new empirical research on the dynamics of various drugs trades across Africa and the lessons that can be learned from this research for future research design and policy analysis. The presentations are designed to reflect a diversity of perspectives, and to provide points of departure for further examination by the discussant and in a Q&A session with panellists.

Presentation / discussion focus Speaker, title, institution Time
Chair Jallal Toufiq, Director of the Moroccan National Observatory on Drugs and Addiction and International Society of Substance Use Professionals, Morocco. 5 mins
Retail characteristics of illicit drug markets in eastern and southern Africa, methodological challenges & issues Jason Eligh, Senior Expert, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime 10-12 mins
A research partnership with people who use drugs to examine Kenyan drug markets from the inside out, methodology and access to the community of people who use drugs Bernice Apondi, Policy Manager, Voices of Community Action and Leadership (VOCAL), Kenya 10-12 mins
Prescription medicine trafficking and misuse in West Africa, trafficking in tramadol, data sources, challenges and obstacles, institutional responses Maria-Goretti Ane Loglo, Focal point for International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), Ghana 10-12 mins
Innovative methodologies for drug market research in Africa

 

Simone Haysom, Senior Analyst, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime 10-12 mins
Discussant Prof. Peter Reuter, School of Public Policy & Department of Criminology at University of Maryland 10-12 mins
Q&A session 35 mins

Joint ISSDP-UNODC webinar

A scientific look at the 2020 World Drug Report

A joint ISSDP-UNODC webinar took place on 2 July 2020.

The webinar featured an overview of the 2020 World Drug Report by Angela Me (Chief Research and Trend Analysis Branch, UNODC) and an ISSDP panel of experts discussing three key topics: 1) socioeconomic circumstances of heavy use, 2) access to controlled medicine and 3) the rise of meth and stimulants.

Webinar 1 Presentations

Outlining the 2020 World Drug Report Angela Me
Director of Research
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Access to Controlled Medicines Suzanne Nielsen
Associate Professor and Deputy Director
Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University
Rise of methamphetamine & stimulants Mr Alexander Soderholm
London School of Economics and Political Science
Socioeconomic Characteristics and Drug Use Disorders Gideon Lasco, MD, PhD
Research Fellow, Ateneo de Manila University
Senior Lecturer University of the Philippines

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