On the closing day of the first ever European Police Chiefs Convention, Europol’s Director, Rob Wainwright, spoke of the urgent...
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Bolivia withdraws from the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
The Bolivian government has formally notified the UN Secretary General of its withdrawal from the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic...
New broadcast: Swedish campaign against cannabis
Interview with Swedish Minister for Elderly Care and Public Health. Topic: Swedish campaign against cannabis.
New broadcast: Council of State ruling on Dutch coffee shops
Interview with Frans Koopmans, Policy expert of the Addiction Centre of the Mental Health Organisation “De Hoop”, Netherlands. Topic: Council...
Press release from the Dutch Council of State re. coffee shops
The Dutch Council of State (Raad van der State) has issued the following press release on Dutch coffee shops: Press...
Study shows illicit drug use costs U.S. economy more than $193 billion
Illicit drug use in the United States is estimated to have cost the U.S. economy more than $193 billion in...
Adolescent substance use: America´s #1 public health problem
Today CASA (The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University) released Adolescent substance use: America´s #1 public...
Flesh eating cocaine
Dermatologists at the University of California, San Francisco recently reported two patients in the online Journal of the American Academy...
Tourists may be excluded from Dutch coffee shops
People who do not live in the Netherlands may be excluded from entering a coffee shop. That has been stipulated...
White paper on drugged driving
The Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc., with support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Office of National...