Before an audience of experts, academics, and students, the Vienna-based UN agencies will present the changes of their policies and priorities in response to new understandings of issues they deal with, as well as the external environment.
This meeting will focus on the chances of the 2016 UN General Assembly on Drugs delivering increased rights and services for people who use drugs, and what the UK government will be doing to secure this outcome.
The conference will focus on the impact of dependence on society, including policy initiatives targeted at dealing with the difficulties associated with it.
The lecture will address important issues related to drug policy, drug use and HIV, by one of the most authoritative voices and well-known activists of drug policy reform in the MENA.