Posts Tagged ‘research’
Ethical challenges in drug epidemiology: issues, principles and guidelines
No CommentsThe Global Assessment Programme on Drug Abuse (GAP) Toolkit Module 7: Ethical challenges in drug epidemiology: issues, principles and guidelines, was prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime as part of the activities of GAP. The main objectives of GAP are to help countries to (a) collect reliable and internationally comparable data on drug abuse; (b) build capacity at the local level to collect data that can guide demand reduction activities; and (c) improve cross-national, regional and global reporting on drug trends.
Beckley Briefing paper – Drug use: Knowledge, Culture and Context
No CommentsThe topic of data and its strength, range and validity has acquired considerable prominence in recent debates taking place around the conduct of international drug policy. There has been a growing movement for “evidence-based policy” in health policy more broadly, and this has permeated drug policy as part of a gradual, but general, shift in the balance between health and law-enforcement in terms of avowed policy objectives. A focus on the quality of data was demonstrated at the 52nd Commission on Narcotic Drugs in March 2009, with a group of countries tabling a resolution dedicated to improving the tools for the collection, reporting and analysis of data relating to drug use. This resolution spoke directly to the need to enhance the present system in order to provide information on which to build ‘evidence-based policies.’
