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New and emerging drugs webinar from Melbourne

Melbourne, Australia

30 April 2013 - 30 April 2013

Australian Drug Foundation have organized a free webinar in Melbourne about new and emerging drugs, that represent one of the biggest challenges in the alcohol and other drug field for 2013 in Australia.

Governing the global drug wars: Washington DC launch

Washington D.C., USA

25 April 2013 - 24 April 2013

'Governing the Global Drug Wars' report editor John Collins and drug policy expert Coletta Youngers will launch London School of Economics- IDEAS report on Washington DC.

Asian human rights and drug policy programme

Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

18 April 2013 - 28 April 2013

The course aims to situate drug policies globally within a framework of human rights, and to assess the extent to which country and international drug policies fail to meet human rights standards.

Drug Policy in Schools: Raising Awareness and Strengthening Early Intervention

Central London, UK

18 April 2013 - 18 April 2013

In 2010, the Government launched a new drug strategy to counter the harmful effects of drug and alcohol dependence in society. The twin aims of the strategy were to reduce harmful drug use and increase the numbers recovering from their dependence. The work is structured around three themes – reducing demand, restricting supply and building recovery in communities.

Tackling legal highs in Scotland

Edinburgh, Scotland

16 April 2013

The Scottish Government is bringing together a range of experts, including the police, health experts and community organisations to discuss how the problem of legal highs in Scotland can be tackled.

Human Rights and Policing Conference

Camberra, Australia

15 April 2013 - 17 April 2013

The 2013 conference will be an opportunity to re-engage professionals and academics in the fields of human rights and policing, and to create a discourse about issues that face police in the 21st Century.

Book presentation “Working practices on drugs. From action to reflection … and back”

Buenos Aires, Argentina.

15 April 2013

Edited by Intercambios with the support of the Levi Strauss Foundation, this publication retrieves working strategies used by different teams that address problematic drug use.

Marijuana legalisation: Are there alternatives to state-federal conflict?

Washington, DC.

14 April 2013

Governance Studies at Brookings and WOLA will host a public forum with two leading scholars and two key politicians to examine the legal and political choices in USA after Colorado and Washington marijuana regulation.

The global drug prohibition regime: Half a century of failed policymaking?

Budapest, Hungary

11 April 2013

This is the third debate organised by the Open Society Foundations' Global Drug Policy Program and the CEU School of Public Policy. It will be held on 11 April 2013, at 5:30pm in the CEU Auditorium.

Inside and Out: Criminal Justice and Substance Use

Edinburgh, Scotland

24 March 2013

This Conference aims to dovetail policy and practice under the national Road to Recovery Drug Strategy with these emerging themes within the Scottish criminal justice system – thereby improving responses at policy development, planning and practice levels to people with substance problems in the criminal justice system.

ATOME Country Conference

Riga, Latvia

20 March 2013

The ATOME project aims to improve access to opioids across Latvia.

6th Australasian Drug and Alcohol Strategy Conference

Sydney, Australia

18 March 2013 - 21 March 2013

The 6th Australasian drug and alcohol strategy conference is the peak police drug and alcohol forum in Australasia. It brings together experts from law enforcement agencies, health service providers, policy analysts, researchers and industry representatives.