Past Seminars

2006 Series on Science and Drug Policy
February 23, 2006	When Brute Force Fails: Strategy for Crime Control Mark Kleiman Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Drug Policy Analysis Program, UCLA
2003-2005 Lovida Coleman DPRC Speaker Series on Science and Drug Policy
April 1, 2005	Coercive Use of Vaccines Against Drug Addiction: Is It Permissible And Is It Good Public Policy? M. Susan Ridgely RAND Corporation
February 18, 2005	Chasing Dirty Money: Assessing Money Laundering Controls Peter Reuter RAND Corporation
January 20, 2005	This is Your Brain on Alcohol: Neuro-imaging Studies in Adolescents with Substance Abuse Behavior Dr. Susan Tapert Assistant Professor in Residence, UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry
April 28, 2004	Reducing Disproportionate Minority Confinement for Youth of Color: Lessons from the Frontlines James Bell Director of the W. Haywood Burns Institute for Juvenile Justice Fairness and Equity
February 6, 2004	HIV Infection among Injection Drug Users: Prevention and Progression David Vlahov Director of the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies (CUES) at The New York Academy of Medicine
February 7, 2004	Egocentric Network Analysis Chris McCarty Survey Director at the University of Florida Survey Research Center (UFSRC).
August 19, 2003	Getting Real About Teens and Drugs Marsha Rosenbaum Director of the Safety First Drug Education Project and director of the San Francisco office of the Drug Policy Alliance.
September 12, 2003	Computer-Based Drug Abuse Prevention for Adolescents: A Multi-Site Evaluation Warren Bickel Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, and Interim Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont.
November 3, 2003	Using Network Analysis to Create More Effective Interventions Thomas Valente Director of the Master of Public Health Program, USC Department of Preventive Medicine.
2002 Grant Hill Speaker Series
February 6	The Iowa Managed Substance Abuse Care Plan (IMSACP): Access, Utilization and Expenditures for Medicaid Recipients Dennis McCarty, Dept. of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University
February 27	Tobacco: Pros, Cons, and Approaches to Harm Reduction Jerome Jaffe, University of Maryland School of Medicine
April 8	From Mountains to Molehills: Reducing the Harms Associated with Injection Drug Use in America Stephanie Strathdee, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
May 31	Forces of Habit: Why We Make War on Some Drugs but Not on Others David Courtwright, University of North Florida
June 21	The Ethical and Policy Implications of Vaccines Against Cocaine and Nicotine Wayne Hall, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
September 24	Punishment and Prejudice: Judging Drug-Using Pregnant Women Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women
October 10	Describing Illicit Drug Use in America: Design and Findings of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) Don Goldstone, Office of Applied Studies, SAMHSA
November 22	Networks and the Population Dynamics of HIV Martina Morris, Department of Sociology University of Washington
December 2	Powder Brokers: The Art of Survival in Colombian Cocaine Trafficking Organizations Rick Fuentes, Captain and Chief of the Intelligence Bureau, New Jersey State Police
2001 DPRC Speaker Series
February 15	Outcome and Cost of Alcohol and Drug Treatment in an HMO: Day Hospital Versus Traditional Outpatient Constance Weisner, UC San Francisco
March 9	Closed Until Further Notice: Focused Deterrence and the Regulation of Illegal Drug Markets David M. Kennedy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
April 25	Factors Influencing the Transfer of Research-Based Treatments into Application Richard Rawson, UCLA
July 20	U.S. Counternarcotics Policy Towards Colombia Ana Maria Salazar, Professor, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (formerly with U.S. Dept. of Defense)
October 23	Drug Policy Reform: Principles, Perspectives and Politics Ethan Nadelmann, Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation
2000 DPRC Speaker Series
May 2	Systems Analysis of Drug Problems: What the Next Generation of Models Should Consider Jonathan Caulkins, RAND
May 24	Effects of Tobacco Prevention Programs and Policies on Youth Mary Ann Pentz, USC Medical School
July 27	Drug Policy and the Mantra of Science Peter Reuter, University of Maryland
August 22	Assessing Alternative Legal Regimes for Marijuana Rob MacCoun, UC Berkeley
September 26	Did Research Influence National Drug Control Policy John Carnevale, formerly of ONDCP
October 11	Advances in the Science of Drug Abuse and Addiction: Implications for Policy and Practice Alan Leshner, NIDA
November 28	Evaluating California Proposition 36 Mark Kleiman, UCLA

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Past Seminars

2006 Series on Science and Drug Policy

2003-2005 Lovida Coleman DPRC Speaker Series on Science and Drug Policy

2002 Grant Hill Speaker Series

2001 DPRC Speaker Series

2000 DPRC Speaker Series