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Correlation organises a symposium
over drugpolicy between law enforcement and harm reduction
in the Netherlands.
'Drugsbeleid
tussen handhaving en gezondheidszorg'
Correlation – European Network Social Inclusion &
Health is een project van de
Stichting
Regenboog Groep. Het project organiseert op 11 december
2008 met ondersteuning van het Ministerie van VWS
een Symposium dat zich richt op het Nederlandse drugsbeleid
en het spanningsveld tussen handhaving enerzijds en gezondheidszorg
anderzijds.
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The European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug
Addiction (EMCDDA) launched its Annual report 2008:
the state of the drugs problem in Europe on 6 November in
Brussels. Published every autumn, the report contains data
supported by an extensive range of figures. The report itself
and all supporting information are available in all EU languages
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Member States of the European Union currently review
the EU strategy on drugs 2005 - 2012 and recommend
the Council of Europe regarding the upcoming action plans
on drugs. Correlation is member of the International Drug
Policy Forum (IDPC) which drafted an advocacy note on that
issue.
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The European Commission just recently informed CORRELATION
that the application for funding in the Second Programme of
Community Action in the field of Health (2008 – 2013)
was evaluated positive, including a recommendation
for co-funding. In case the negotiations with the Executive
Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC) proceed successfully,
the project will continue in 2009 for 3 years. With more than
60 collaborating and 16 associated partners, Correlation II
aims to tackle health inequalities and to improve prevention
and care of blood borne infection diseases among risk populations.
For more information, please read the executive summary of the
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The European Institute of Social Services (EISS)
at University of Kent is pleased to announce the 1st Conference
of the Connections Project "Joining the Dots: criminal
justice, treatment and harm reduction". The event will
take place 25-27 March 2009 in Krakow, Poland. |
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The Correlation network – through the host Foundation
Regenboog AMOC – is member of the EXASS Network,
a European network of partnerships between stakeholders at frontline
level responding to drug problems providing experience and assistance
for inter-sectoral cooperation, established and organised by
the Pompidou Group.
A recent meeting of the network took place in Frankfurt a.M.
in Germany between 26 – 28 May 2008. The city of Frankfurt
has an outstanding reputation to tackle the drug phenomenon,
in particular open drug scenes, with a multi-disciplinary and
comprehensive approach |
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The International Drug Policy Consortium issued
a new alert with information about publications and events. |
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The
Correlation expert groups
finalised their work and prepared their products.
Available is:
- the cd-rom on internet outreach ’10 Golden Rules’,
- a report on 'Harm Reduction in the Hungarian Party Scene'
as a model of good practice,
- the reader ‘Overcoming Barriers: Migration, Marginalisation
Access to Health and Social Services’.
- the guidelines ‘Practical Guidelines for Delivering
Health Services to Sex Worker’,
- the reader ‘Empowerment and Self – Organisations
of Drug Users’,
- guidelines on ‘Providing Integrated Outreach Services’,
- a report on ‘Peer Training in a multicultural environment’,
- a ‘Data Collection Protocol for Specialist Harm
Reduction Agencies’,
- a report ‘Marginalisation, Social Inclusion and
Health – Experiences based on the work of Correlation’.
Please check the ‘product’
section of this site and download or order your copy.
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‘Towards a Global Approach’
By Eberhard Schatz and John-Peter Kools
The motto of the 19th international harm reduction conference
was ‘towards a global approach’. The event took
place in the venues of the ‘Fira Barcelona’ and
was attended by more than 1000 participants from all over the
world. Beside European , US, Canadian and Australian delegates,
a lot of participants came from Asia, Arabic African countries
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The City of Oslo, Agency for Drug and Drug Addiction
Services is pleased to invite you to the European Conference
on Outreachwork, 2008.
The focus of the conference is early intervention and youth
at risk and the aim is to gather practitioners, researchers,
policy-planners and outreach workers from all over Europe to
exchange the best of practice, research and training/education.
The conference takes place in
Oslo, 22 – 24 April, 2008.
For more info: www.outreachwork.no
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The new founded International Youth Network for Harm
Reduction is seeking for partner.
The network plans to form an International Working Group (IWG)
that will actively shape the development of the network over
the next year and beyond. The IWG will be responsible for networking,
developing web and communication tools, training and resources
and developing advocacy campaigns. The IWG members will also
have the opportunity to travel to Barcelona in May 2008 to participate
the 19th International Harm Reduction Conference and youth network
activities. |
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Caitlin Padgett youthnet4hr@yahoo.ca
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Prostitution
and Public Life in Four European Capitals,
Edited by Daniela Danna, with contributions of Janine Mossuz-Lavau,
Silvia Garcia and Jan Visser
For more information: www.danieladanna.it
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The
International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) redesigned it’s
website and issued a new alert
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On
Norway adapting the Swedish law.
Criminalizing the purchase of sexual services.
A Summary by Arne Randers-Pehrson, Pro Sentret |
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The
CORRELATION Network Conference in Sofia
has taken place from 27 to 29 September 2007. About 200 participants
from 36 countries joined the event, which was hosted by the
Bulgarian National Committee on Prevention of AIDS and STDs
at the Council of Ministers. Researchers, policy makers, representatives
from sex work, drug use, Roma and migrant communities had the
opportunity to follow more than 60 workshops and presentations,
interactive discussions, a film programme and satellite meetings
of the SWAN and the INPUD networks.
On the Correlation
Conference website, you find an extended documentation
of all presentations, video interviews, photos and the final
wrap up.
>>Correlation
Conference Sofia
The Correlation Conference Report
You can download the conference reader
(3,9MB)
or order a hard copy
administration@correlation-net.org
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Call
for proposals/subcontracting:
The Correlation project finalises right now a number of reports
and materials. For that reason, we look for an editor, who takes
care on a final review of all prepared files and reports during
September – December 2007. |
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send a quote ( on a fee per hour) and information on your experiences
in that field to
administration@correlation-net.org |
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IHRA’s
19th International Conference – Towards a Global
Approach” (11 – 15 May 2008; Barcelona, Spain) is
launched. The website will contain all of the information that
you will need about the event, the registration process, the
programme, abstract submission, travel and accommodation –
as well as an archive of information from the previous 18 IHRA
conferences. |
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INTERNATIONAL
DRUG POLICY CONSORTIUM - INFORMATION ALERT, AUGUST 2007
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EC
Civil Society Forum
The European Commission, DG JFS, will set up a Civil Society
Forum on Drugs at the end of 2007. Its aim will be to increase
informal consultation and the input of civil society on drug-related
activities, policy proposals, policy implementation and priorities
of the EU Drugs Strategy and the EU Action Plan on Drugs. Organizations
interested in joining the future forum are requested to apply
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Call
for proposals/subcontracting: Media coverage of conference
Correlation is searching for a media company, that could cover
the conference on ‘social Inclusion and Health’,
to be held in Sofia 27 – 29 September 2007. Task is to
follow the conference and to hold video interviews with participants
and speakers.
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Proposal
22.05.2007 Correlation provided an application for funding in
the Health Program of the European Commission. Based
on the structure and the experiences of Correlation I, the project
aims to develop and implement new approaches in the field of
marginalisation and health and to provide a platform for knowledge
exchange and data collection. More than 70 associated and collaborating
partner joined the proposal. A decision of approval or refusal
is expected in autumn 2007.
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New
addictions resource for professionals and researchers across
Europe launched online
Today sees the launch of a new European information service
on alcohol, drugs and addictions. Elisad is the European association
of Libraries and Information Services on Alcohol and other Drugs.
The Elisad Gateway project aims to develop a comprehensive information
service, providing access to web-based resources on alcohol,
drugs and addictions within a searchable catalogue.The Elisad
Gateway, supported by the European Commission, provides users
with a searchable catalogue of web-based information resources
on these subjects
www.elisad.eu
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Conference
‘Crossing Frontiers’ International developments
in the treatment of drug dependence. Lessons for the UK
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Policy
Seminar 11-12 June 2007, Budapest
In June 2007, the Correlation policy group will organize a skill
building workshop on the topic of Monitoring and Evaluation
(M&E) in Budapest with the practical support of the Hungarian
Civil Liberty Union.
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The
European Opiate Addiction Treatment Association (EUROPAD), American
Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependance (AATOD) and
South Eastern European Adriatic Addiction Treatment Network
(SEEA net) are co-presenting
THE FIRST WORLD CONFERENCE ON MEDICAL ASSISTED TREATMENT OF
OPIATE ADDICTION with “INAUGURAL MEETING – WORLD
FEDERATION OF THE ASSOCIATIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF OPIOID DEPENDENCE”,
which will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from July 1- 3,
2007 with the preconference workshop on substitution treatment
in communities and prisons on June 30, 2007.
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PICUM,
the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants,
in cooperation with EUROCITIES, will hold an International Conference
in Brussels on 28-29 June 2007 on Access to health care for
undocumented migrants in Europe:
This conference, organized within the framework of the EU project
“Access to Health Care for Undocumented Migrants”,
aims to bring together NGOs, local authorities, health care
providers, policy makers, researchers and other professionals
to discuss the health care challenges facing undocumented migrants.
This event will provide a forum to share creative examples and
strategies to address the problems associated with insufficient
access to health care for undocumented migrants in Europe.
International Press Centre - Residence Palace
Rue de la loi 155, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Thursday, June 28, 2007 | Jeudi, 28 Juin 9:00 -17:00
Friday, June 29, 2007 | Vendredi, 29 Juin 9:00 -13:00
Working languages: English & French
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'IDPC
BRIEFING NUMBER 4 - THE EUROPEAN UNION DRUG STRATEGY.
This briefing paper gives an overview of the development of
drug policies within the European Union, and the institutions
and structures that exist to implement and evaluate these policies.
Taking the EMCDDA Report 2006, and the European Commission 2006
Progress Review as their starting point, the IDPC analyses the
strengths and weaknesses of current arrangements, and makes
some recommendations for future action'.
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Call
for proposal/subcontract
For the Correlation seminar on monitoring and evaluation, Correlation
is searching for a trainer in the field of ‘media/lobbying’.
Task is to provide a one day training on the seminar begin June
in Budapest.
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Europad
organises a conference ‘Heroin Addiction.
The Clinical and Therapeutic aspects’in Lucca, Italy at
27/09/07 – 29/09/07.
Venue: "Luigi Russo" Cultural Centre Piazza del Duomo
Pietrasanta, (Lucca), Italy, EU
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more information contact:
Marilena Guareschi;
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Ferdinando Melillo;
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NEW
DATE !!!
The date of the CORRELATION outreach seminar
has moved: It’s now scheduled at the
1st of March until the 3rd of March
2007
in Helsinki/Tallinn.
Aim of the seminar is to present and to discuss outreach methodologies
in the face of policy changes, new outreach methodologies and
peer involvement. The seminar partly takes place in Helsinik,
Finlandi and in Tallinn, Estonia.
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Costs
for Non Correlation members is 450 Euro inclusive hotel, subsistence
and travel to Tallinn.
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National
policy debate in Hungary
Almost 100 Hungarian harm reduction service providers and researchers
gathered at the the European Youth Centre Budapest (30-31 October,
2006) for the two days event.
The conference was sponsored by the Open Society Institute and
the Correlation Network.
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Full article with photos: http://www.drugreporter.net |
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Please check the updates of programs of our policy and
empowerment seminars:
Policy
Empowerment
+ cocaine training
For the empowerment seminar, we are still searching for parent
organisations, who are interested to join the European group
of families of drug users.
Please contact:
parents@correlation-net.org
and check the link: EFDU
on this page for more information’s.
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Correlation
issued a comment on the green paper of the European Commission
regarding civil society involvement in drug policy:
The recently issued green paper of the European Commission summarizes
the conditions and the framework for the Commission and civil
society stakeholders,. Even if the expectations shouldn’t
rise too high – European decision making will remain complex
and bureaucratic, civil society speaks with many voices and
has different interests - this might be a ‘window of opportunity’
to improve the situation and to install a rational dialogue
on that issue.
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The
CORRELATION study on ‘access to health and social services”
is now in the state of implementation.
The Research Institute on Drug Studies (RIDS) at ELTE university
in Budapest and its partners have started their joint study
project on „Identifying barriers to access to social and
health services for marginalised groups”. Read
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BECKLEY
REPORT 10 - TREATMENT FOR DEPENDENT DRUG USE.
This report aims to give policymakers an accessible summary
of the current evidence available on the effectiveness of treatment,
and suggestions on how treatment services can be expanded and
integrated into a co-ordinated system. The authors explain why
treatment for dependent drug use is a good investment in any
country with significant numbers of dependent drug users, in
that it has been shown to achieve significant reductions in
the health and social harms that are associated with drug problems.
The major treatment modalities are described, and a summary
given of the global research evidence into their effectiveness.
The current major debates in the treatment field are also briefly
summarised.
INTERNATIONAL DRUG POLICY CONSORTIUM BRIEFING PAPER
2 - THE 2006 WORLD DRUG REPORT.
This briefing paper, the second in a series from the IDPC, looks
at the issues raised by the publication in June of the latest
World Drug Report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime. The briefing paper analyses the developing data collection
methodologies used by the UNODC and, while recognising their
limitations, summarises the findings of the 2006 report on trends
in the demand and supply of the main types of internationally
prohibited drugs. The briefing paper confirms that the data
assembled gives the most comprehensive picture yet available
on the global drug market, but expresses concern that the UNODC
policy statements in the report, and associated with its launch,
do not always seem to be based directly on the evidence available.
Please pass this email alert on to anyone with an interest in
drug policy issues - if you did not receive this alert directly
from us, you can subscribe to receive future announcements by
visiting the website: www.internationaldrugpolicy.net
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www.internationaldrugpolicy.net
or the Consortium website:
www.idpc.info
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Amsterdam,
15.09.2006
With support of Correlation, a European Alliance of acceptance
orientated Families and relatives of Drug User (EFDU) has been
formed.Their goal is to establish an international network which
connects relatives and promotes the exchange of knowledge and
information, allowing them greater competence for mutual support.
The first meeting will held from 16th - 18 th of November in
Torino, Italy. Interested parent groups and organisations are
invited to join. For more informations, please check
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Amsterdam,
20.07.2006
The Correlation network is carrying out a project
regarding access to health and social services of marginalized
persons. In this context, we publish a call for proposals/subcontracting
to fulfil particular tasks in the field of migration and drug
use and in the field of the self organisation of drug users.
Individual experts in the field or partner organisations of
the network, who do NOT have financial relations with CORRELATION
are asked to submit a not later than august, the 20th 2006.
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The
Correlation network organizes a number of seminars
on specific topics in 2006 and 2007.
We invite a broad range of experts (decision makers, service
users and service providers, grass root organisations, researchers)
to discuss and to exchange experience on particular issues:
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Empowerment, 16th – 18th of November 2006, Torino
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2007, Helsinki-Tallinn |
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seminar fees are:
350 Euro internet seminar
( fee includes 2 nights accommodation, dinner and hotel).
450 Euro policy seminar
( fee includes 3 nights accommodation, dinner and hotel).
450
Euro empowerment seminar
( fee includes 3 nights accommodation, dinner and hotel).
450
Euro outreach seminar
( fee includes 3 nights accommodation, dinner and hotel).
50
Euro for Correlation members.
You
will get a confirmation with bank transfer and venue details
after your registration.
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CORRELATION
newsletter 2
Please clik here to download the second CORRELATION newsletter
with information about the seminars.
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CORRELATION
attended the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE REDUCTION OF DRUG
RELATED HARM in Vancouver begin May
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More than 1200 participants from all over the world joint the
conference which had a significant involvement of drug users.
One side meeting was delegated to the forming of an international
user network.
Please read the declaration of this event:
>> Why the world needs an international network
of activists who use drugs. |
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7 – ‘THE INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD –
GUARDIAN OR WATCHDOG OF THE UNITED NATIONS DRUG CONTROL CONVENTIONS?’
The International Narcotics Control Board is charged with monitoring
the implementation of the three United Nations Conventions and
of alerting member states and the international community to
weaknesses in the system.
REPORT 8 – ‘CANNABIS AND MENTAL HEALTH –
RESPONSES TO THE EMERGING EVIDENCE’
This report reviews the global situation regarding Cannabis
cultivation and use, with particular reference to recent debates
around the variable THC content of Cannabis products, and the
link between use of the drug and mental health problems such
as schizophrenia and psychosis. |
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following new reports from the BFDPP have recently been posted
on the website:
www.internationaldrugpolicy.net |
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17th
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE REDUCTION OF DRUG RELATED HARM
– 30th APRIL, 1/2/3 MAY 2006, VANCOUVER, CANADA. |
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details and registration forms can be downloaded from: www.harmreduction2006.ca
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9th
ENDIPP CONFERENCE ON DRUGS AND INFECTION PREVENTION IN PRISONS
– 5/6/7 OCTOBER, LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA.
This annual conference organised by the European Network on
Drugs and Infection Prevention in Prison is focussing this year
on ‘bridging the gap’ – analysing the barriers
to providing an equivalence of care inside prisons to that which
is available outside. |
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information and registration forms can be downloaded from: www.endipp.net
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Correlation
conducts a study on access to health and social services
We have hopes that methods, the experience of the study (with
modifications), which will be presented in the form of a toolkit,
can be adopted and used by various marginalised target groups
such as problem drug users, sex workers, alcohol users who are
out of social and health services/treatment, or who have limited
contact with these services. It is also hoped that the toolkit
will be useful for policymakers (locally, nationally, internationally)
and service providers as well. The results of which will be
used as tools for both services users and service providers
to approach policy makers |
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See
paper on harm reduction and the importance of evaluation
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The
1st Eastern European and Central Asian AIDS conference
– taking place in Moscow on 15-17 May 2006 – marks
the first time all stakeholders involved in the fight against
HIV/AIDS in the region will meet and share experiences and lessons
learned.
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information and online registration forms can be found on:
www.eecaac2006.org. |
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CORRELATION
newsletter 1
Please find here the first CORRELATION newsletter with a lot
of information about the expert group activities.
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The
DC&D 2 Conference on local and participative responses to
the issue of drugs, also called implementation conference,
will be held on June, 2nd 2006 in Gent (Belgium).
On this occasion, we will present our platform of exchanges
including training sessions, study trips and
visits of counselling to our new partners.
Please find enclosed the first announcement of the conference.
The DC&D 2 is organized in co-operation with the Belgium
Forum on Urban Safety. |
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Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme - |
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they added additional reports to their site: |
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Report
6 :
Facing the future: The challenge for national and international
drug policy. |
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Briefing
Paper 9:
UNAIDS & The prevention of HIV infection through injecting
drug use |
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Briefing
Paper 10:
Drug policy in India - compounding harm? |
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www.internationaldrugpolicy.net |
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The
first Correlation expert meeting |
The
first Correlation expert meeting was held successful in
Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands...
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