Collapse of the Global Order on Drugs: From Ungass 2016 to Review 2019 (Hardcover)

Collapse of the Global Order on Drugs: From Ungass 2016 to Review 2019 By Axel Klein (Editor), Blaine Stothard (Editor) Cover Image
By Axel Klein (Editor), Blaine Stothard (Editor)
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The 2016 UNGASS on drug policy resulted in an Outcome Document detailing profound differences of opinion and practice between different states polarising public health and human rights themes. This book examines the different positions, the underlying problems, and the options open for the next international gathering on drugs.

About the Author


Axel Klein is a researcher and project consultant with a long standing commitment to drug policy reform. Axel has headed the research and international units at DrugScope and been a trustee for Transform, two UK NGOs. is publications include The Khat Controversy: Stimulating the Debate on Drugs (2007), Caribbean Drugs: From Criminalization to Harm Reduction (2004), and Drugs and the World (2009). More recently Axel has published on cannabis cultivation and the anthropology of drugs. He has been the editor of journal Drugs and Alcohol Today since 2007. Blaine Stothard is an educationalist and prevention specialist who came to drug policy through an advisory role in a London LEA at the time of the UK's first national drug policy. He was active in the Healthy Schools programmes from 1998 to 2010 as an independent consultant, has worked on related policy development and implementation in the UK and Eastern Europe and was the external consultant for the Moscow-based schools drug education programme run by Project HOPE from 1998 to 2006. He has been the co-editor of Drugs and Alcohol Today since 2014.
Product Details
ISBN: 9781787564886
ISBN-10: 1787564886
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication Date: September 28th, 2018
Pages: 328
Language: English