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Global Perspectives on Alcohol and Other Drug Policies
This seminar style course will study substance abuse from humanitarian, trans-national and public health perspectives while traveling to Amsterdam and Canterbury, England. Students will examine European and North American alcohol and other drug policies assessing their impact at the regional, state, national, and international levels. Emp... read more
This seminar style course will study substance abuse from humanitarian, trans-national and public health perspectives while traveling to Amsterdam and Canterbury, England. Students will examine European and North American alcohol and other drug policies assessing their impact at the regional, state, national, and international levels. Emphasis will be given to the contemporary phases of alcohol and other drug policies, the drug war and their connections with complex trans-national economic issues, immigration and human trafficking.
Students will also attend the 6th annual International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP) Conference while in Canterbury. The conference will discuss a wide range of drug policy issues, with a particular focus on 'how can and do empirical studies influence drug policy?'. More information about the conference can be found at the University of Kent website.
As the world becomes more interconnected through globalization and technology, new strategies and international cooperation are needed to solve common problems such as drug abuse, trafficking and related violence. At their core drug use and addiction are health problems, however they are intrinsically linked to crime and criminal justice in most countries. Today, terrorism, drug trafficking, guns, homicide, sexual health, organized crime, and law enforcement are the primary focus of drug prevention rather than public health. Issues surrounding the definition, incidence, trends, control, treatment and prevention of addiction will be explored using theoretical and empirical resources. Less
