Drug Policy Conference Oral Presentations
Listed alphabetically by presenter. Papers are accessible to conference attendees.
Judge Steven Alm
Judiciary, State of Hawaii, USA
Lessons learned from Project Hope (title TBD)
Jeremy Arkes
Naval Postgraduate School, USA
"Recessions and the participation of teenagers in the selling and use of illicit drugs"
Martin Bouchard
Simon Fraser University, Canada
"Illegal drug supply chains as social networks"
Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen
Norwegian Inst. for Alcohol and Drug Research, Norway
"Decriminialization and initiation into cannabis use"
Jenny Chalmers
University of New South Wales, Australia
"Riding out the global financial crisis? The implications of recession for drug use and harms"
Sandeep Chawla
United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime
"Research to inform policy: Some insights from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime"
Hope Corman
Rider University and NBER, USA
"Effects of welfare reform on illicit drug use of adult women"
Cláudia Costa Storti
EMCDDA, Portugal
"Unemployment and drug treatment"
Jean-Michel Costes
French Monitoring Center on Drugs (OFDT), France
"Ten years of change on the issue of drugs in France: Public policy, public opinion and media"
William Crano
Claremont Graduate University, USA
"Translating basic persuasion research to the field: mass media and drug prevention"
Christopher Doran
University of New South Wales Institute for Drugs, Australia
"Including illicit drugs in the national accounts: evidence from Australia"
Juan Carlos Echeverry
Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
"Drug trafficking and impunity in the Lucas islands: Evidence for the United States, Mexico and Colombia"
Vanda Felbab-Brown
The Brookings Institution, USA
"Mexico's violence and lessons from Brazil"
Nicolas Fortané
Université de Lyon - Triangle UMR 5206, France
"Between public health and law enforcement, which mode of regulation for drug policies?"
Asmin Fransiska
Atma Jaya University, Indonesia
"The future picture of Indonesian drug policy"
Ralph Fretz
Community Education Centers, USA
"Economic evaluation of a prerelease substance abuse treatment program for repeat criminal offenders"
Maurice Galla
European Commission, Belgium
"Research challenges for future EU drug policy"
Owen Gallupe
School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, Canada
"Hanging out with the opposite sex: Unstructured socializing, peer group gender composition, and delinquency"
Amanda Geller
Columbia University, USA
"Pot as pretext: Marijuana, race and the new disorder in New York City street policing"
Suzette Glasner-Edwards
UCLA, USA
"Evidence-based practices in addiction treatment"
Wendy Gong
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia
"Understanding the dynamics of Australian methamphetamine markets: Making better use of price data"
Jelica Grbic
Edith Cowan University, Australia
"Factors influencing medical cannabis policy development in the U.S. and their implications"
Victoria Greenfield
U.S. Naval Academy, USA
"If supply-oriented policy is broken, can "harm reduction" help fix it?"
Ross Harvey
Griffith University, Australia
"What's old is new again: A case study of precursor chemical regulation in Queensland"
Angela Hawkins
UCLA, USA
Project Hope (title TBD)
Brendan Hughes
EMCDDA, Portugal
"Drug offences: Sentencing and other outcomes"
Caitlin Hughes
Drug Policy Modelling Program, Australia
"The drug law enforcement performance monitoring impasse: Analysis and prospects for moving forward"
Douglas Husak
USA
"Competing rationales for drug policy"
Martin Iguchi
UCLA/RAND Corporation, USA
"Drugs and HIV in the U.S. and Russia"
Mireille Jacobson
RAND Corporation, USA
"Population cohort size and marijuana initiation"
Beau Kilmer
RAND Corporation, USA
"Drug enforcement and crime indicators"
Mark Kleiman
UCLA, USA
Project Hope (title TBD)
Julieta Lemaitre
Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
"Consumer right to a "personal dose" and the war on drugs: A study of liberalization of consumption policies in Bogotá, Colombia"
Riccardo Leoncini
Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy
"Counteracting cocaine production: An analysis based on a novel dataset"
Jo Thori Lind
University of Oslo, Norway
"Opium for the masses? Conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan"
Alcina Ló
IDT-National Institute on Drugs and Drug Addiction, Portugal
"Social integration programs and mediation strategies"
Daniel Mejía Londoño
Dept of Economics, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
"Competing on price or violence"
Robert MacCoun
UC Berkeley, USA
"California Assembly Bill 390 and the Tax and Regulate Cannabis Ballot Initiative: What would happen if California legalized marijuana?"
Susanne MacGregor
University of London (LSHTM), UK
"The framing of drug problems and policy responses: The relative autonomy of local action as illustrated in one English town"
Duane McBride
Andrews University, USA
"Community collaboration, the development of state methamphetamine precursor policies, and changes in state small toxic lab methamphetamine production"
David McDonald
Social Research & Evaluation Pty Ltd, Australia
"Using theories of policy processes in evaluating national drug strategies: The case of the 2009 evaluation of Australia's National Drug Strategy"
Raul Melo
Institute of Drug and Drug Addiction of Portugal
"Me & the Others Project—a preventive approach"
Kim Møller
Center for Alcohol and Drug Research, Copenhagen Division, Denmark
"An analysis of costs and profits in two Copenhagen cannabis markets"
Abbas Motevalian
Iran University of Medical Science, Iran
"Random drug tests among public vehicle drivers in I.R. Iran"
Nancy Nicosia
RAND Corporation, USA
"Are supply-side drug control efforts effective?"
Bohdan Nosyk
Centre for Health Evaluation & Outcome Sciences, Canada
"An empirical specification of the rational addiction model for illicit drug use"
Letizia Paoli
Leuven Institute of Criminology, Belgium
"The harms of cocaine trafficking and other criminal activities: Testing a new framework for assessment"
Pascal Perez
Australian National University, Australia
"A simulation model exploring responses to prevention and policing from young polydrug users in Australia"
Harold Pollack
School of Social Service Administration, USA
"If drug treatment works so well, why are so many drug users in prison?"
Richard Rawson
UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, USA
"Treatment of opiate addiction in the Egyptian prisons: Promise and challenges"
Peter Reuter
University of Maryland, USA
"Drug policy and control at the international level"
Roberto Ricci
Consultant for University of Tor Vergata Rome, Italy
"Illicit drug industry in the National Accounts: Some extension of the supply and demand side approaches"
Alison Ritter
Drug Policy Modelling Program, Australia
"Policing indicators and policy indicators"
Kevin Sabet
ONDCP, USA
"The research base for President Obama's first national drug control strategy"
Lawrence Scheier
LARS Research Institute, Inc., USA
"A person-centered approach to examining media campaign effects"
Mohammad Shahbazi
GFATM prisons organization (www.theglobalfund.org), Iran
"The first syringe exchange program in Iran prisons"
Nicola Singleton
UK Drug Policy Commission, UK
"Harm reduction, community engagement and partnership working—perspectives of enforcement personnel in the UK"
Michael Slater
Ohio State University, USA
"Assessing media campaigns linking marijuana non-use with autonomy and aspirations"
Leslie Snyder
University of Connecticut, USA
"Longitudinal analysis of the impact of alcohol advertising on youth uptake of drinking"
Alex Stevens
University of Kent, UK
"Telling policy stories: An ethnographic study of the use of evidence in policy-making in the UK"
Stephen Talpins
Institute for Behavior and Health & NPAMC Author, USA
"New strategies to curb drugged driving"
Franz Trautmann
Trimbos Institute, Netherlands
"Evaluation of the National Drug Action Plan (2005-2009) of Luxembourg"
Freya Vander Laenen
Ghent University, IRCP, Belgium
"Towards community collaboration in drug policy: Best practices"
Margriet van Laar
Trimbos Institute, Netherlands
"Use and epidemiological measures"
Margriet van Laar & Marianne van Ooyen-Houben
Trimbos Institute, Netherlands & Scientific Research and Documentation Centre, Ministry of Justice, Netherlands
"Dutch drug policy evaluated"
Jiri Vopravil
Czech Statistical Office, Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic
"Estimation of drug trade, its inclusion into national account systems and potential impact on GDP"
Chris Wilkins
SHORE, Massey University, New Zealand
"Criminal justice outcomes for cannabis use offenses in New Zealand, 1991-2008"
Thomas Zabransky
Center for Addictology, Charles University, Czech Republic
"Treatment and AIDS related issues"
Gary Zarkin
RTI International, USA
"Benefits and costs of alternative substance abuse treatment programs for individuals in state prisons: Results from a lifetime simulation model"
Andries Zoutendijk
Leuven Institute of Criminology, Belgium
"Assessing the harms of cocaine trafficking and other organized criminal activities"
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