Presentation at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference, New Orleans, December 6, 2007.
Regulation and Control
Antonio-Maria Costa addresses the DPA conference
Antonio-Maria Costa is the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) addresses the conference.
Interview with John Peter Kools at the Correlation European Conference
On: Poverty and harm reduction. The interview was made at the Correlation European Conference 27 – 29 September, Sofia, Bulgaria
Interview with Dagmar Hedrich at the Correlation European Conference
On: The Importance and impact of research and evidence base in the drug field. The interview was made at the Correlation European Conference 27 – 29 September, Sofia, Bulgaria
Ethan Nadelmann – What are the alternatives of prohibition?
Ethan Nadelmann is the executive director of the largest drug policy reform organization in the U.S., the Drug Policy Alliance (www.drugpolicy.org ). Earlier he was a professor at the Princeton University.
Dagmar Hedrich – Study on Consumption Rooms
Dagmar Hedrich is a leading researcher of the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), a Lisbon based, de-centralized agency of the European Union responsible for data collection and analysis on drug use and drug policies.
Danny Kushlick – Is marijuana more dangerous today?
Danny Kushlick is director of Transform Drug Policy Foundation.
Alex Wodak – Can indvidual countries legalize drugs?
Dr Alex Wodak is the Director of the Alcohol and Drug Service at St Vincent’s Hospital. He was also President of the International Harm Reduction Association for several years, he is the author (with Ron Owen) of “Drug Prohibition: a call for change” published by UNSW Press.
Mike Trace – does the criminalization of drug users work?
Mike Trace is currently the Co-Director of the Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme and Chief Executive at RAPT (Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners Trust), one of the UK’s foremost providers of drug addiction treatment.
Mauro Guarinieri – connect drug users to society
Mauro is a well-known Italian AIDS activist who previously worked as a chair of GNP+, an advocate group, and recently works for the International Harm Reduction Development Program of the Open Society Institute.
