PPT-Psychoactive Substances: Issues For Policy Makers

Fay Watson Secretary General EURAD Summary About Us Psychoactive Substances Issues For Policy Makers An update on draft EU legislation on new psychoactive substances About Us We are the only EU network advocating for prevention and rehabilitation focused drug policies . New psychoactive substances may also be add ed Amphetamines What are amphetamines Amphetamines are stimulant drugs which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body Some types of amphetamines are legally prescribed by Science. Forum. SCIENTIFIC ADVICE FOR POLICYMAKING. AND. CONSEQUENCES FOR THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY OF SCIEN. T. ISTS. Preliminary . Findings. Tateo. . Arimoto. Professor, GRIPS. Yasushi . Sato. Fellow. Peter Reuter. University of Maryland. 1. Motivation. Marijuana legalization now serious policy option. US movement driven mostly by dissatisfaction with apparently tough enforcement. Also potential state revenues. Safia Akhtar. +44 7867507019 . m1001132@sgul.ac.uk. St George’s, University of London . Research Project for Intercalated BSc in Basic Medical Sciences. Introduction. Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS), commonly known as “legal highs”, have emerged into our drug markets in the past decade. Kasai, National . Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT. )/ Tokyo Institute of Technology/The ministry of internal affairs and Communications. Setsuko Aoki, Keio University, . Fay Watson. Competencies at EU Level. Information collection and exchange (HDG, COSI, EMCDDA). Cross border trafficking. Cross border asset recovery (legislative work on this one). Movement of chemicals across border (i.e. drug precursors, psychoactive substances). Rachel Sutherland. NDARC Symposium, 8. th. October 2018. National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW, Sydney. What are new and emerging psychoactive substances? . Designer drugs, research chemicals, synthetic drugs, analogues, legal highs.. Lesson 4. Mr. Martin. You’ll Learn To. Examine the harmful effects of psychoactive drugs on body systems.. Explain the role psychoactive drugs play in putting teens in unsafe situations that include the risk of HIV, STD’s, or unplanned pregnancies.. DRUG ABUSE. What are Psychoactive . Substances ?. These are substances which changes the way in which a person feels, thinks or . behaves AFTER consuming them.. These Psychoactive substances do not always lead to addiction.. New Psychoactive Substances . Global seizures of khat, fluctuating strongly year on year, declined over the period 2013-2018 as compared to the period 2008-2012, notably reflecting less quantities reported seized in Asia. . Demand Side Working Group. July 9. th. , 2015. 1. TAC Motion on LMP-G. On Oct 6. th. , 2011, TAC voted “to . affirm the WMS recommendation for the further development of the LMP minus G . option”. CONTROL COMMISSION. C I C A D. Secretariat for Multidimensional Security. PROFESSOR COPYTZY CRUZ. PLENARY SESSION 6, PANEL 6. EPIDEMIOLOGY OF WASTEWATER ANALYSIS AS A TOOL TO STRENGTHEN EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS ON DRUG. Eliza . K. urcevi. č. Eurasian. . Harm. . Reduction. . Association. Definition of NPS. “S. ubstances of abuse, either in a pure form or a preparation, that are . not controlled by the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs or the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances. . Krista E. Wiegand. University of . tennessee. The Gap. How significant is the gap between academic IR and foreign policy? . 85% see a gap. Should there be more effort to bridge the gap? . How can academics address the gap? .