Conferences

Fourth Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy

This conference will take place in Santa Monica, California, 15-16 March 2010. It will be co-hosted by RAND Drug Policy Research Center and UCLA’s Integrated Substance Abuse Program. The call for abstracts can be downloaded here.

Third Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy

This conference will take place at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna, 2-3 March 2009. It will discuss research issues of relevance to policy discussions at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on drugs.

Second Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy

This conference took place on April 3-4 2008 in Lisbon, Portugal. It was supported by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) and the Instituto da Droga e da ToxicodependĂŞncia (IDT).

The publicly available papers and presentations from ISSDP's Second Annual Conference are available here.

Some presenters at the Lisbon conference have not given permission for their papers to be freely available. However, ISSDP members and Lisbon conference participants can view them here.

The conference programme can be viewed here.

First Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy

The first annual conference and meeting of the newly formed International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP) was held in Oslo, March 22-23, 2007. The event was supported by the Nordic Council for Alcohol and Drug Research (NAD) with the Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research (SIRUS) as local host.