ISSDP hosts a webinar to equip drug policy scholars with the skills and know-how to successfully publish peer-reviewed articles in drug policy relevant journals.
Alex Stevens suggests that the impact of cannabis policy "liberalisation" on adolescent cannabis use has been drastically overestimated in previous research.
Winstock, Eastwood and Stevens detail how the new UK drug strategy, almost devoid of harm reduction initiatives, will fail to reduce rapidly increasing numbers of drug-related deaths.
The article discusses why a disproportionate number of young black people is convicted for drug offences in London, shedding light on the main underlying causes: social exclusion, biased policing, gang culture and links to the cocaine trade.
Ten years on, the reform has attracted considerable international attention. It has also been the subject of a number of divergent accounts on its impacts, with some commentators offering diametrically opposed policy conclusions from their evidence-informed analyses.
This paper addresses the issues of ethics and effectiveness in coerced treatment for drug users. It is based on the existing evidence on coerced treatment, as well as on considerations of the ethics of such treatment and research on quasi-compulsory treatment in Europe.
