Many nations are committed to addressing problems arising from the use, distribution and control of illegal drugs. Policies to deal with these issues are becoming more explicit and a growing number of scientific analysts, within and outside of government, have become interested in understanding the effects of drug policies. The ISSDP aims to:
- Develop relations among these analysts and thus strengthen the field.
- Be a forum for high quality drug policy analysis.
- Develop the scientific base for policy decisions.
- Improve the interface between researchers and policy makers.
The ISSDP Coordinating Committee is chaired by Professor Peter Reuter of the University of Maryland, USA . Its Vice-President is Alison Ritter, Associate Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Australia.
The other Committee members are:
- Henri Bergeron (Senior Research Fellow at The French National Centre for Scientific Research)
- Sandeep Chawla, (Head of Research and Policy Analysis at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
- Börje Olsson (SoRAD, the Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs at Stockholm University, Sweden)
- Pia Rosenqvist (Nordic Council for Alcohol and Drug Research)
- Tomáš Zábranský (Centre for Addictology of the Psychiatric Clinic of the 1st Faculty of Medicine and the General University Hospital of Charles University, Czech Republic)
- Alex Stevens (University of Kent, UK), is the ISSDP Secretary.
