Why Europe Must Lead Drug Policy Reform & Decriminalisation
08h30 – 09h45, Wednesday 11th July 2018, ESOF 2018 Toulouse.
Conceived and organised by SciCom – Making Sense of Science
Abstract:
This high-level, plenary-style panel will evidence how the goal of a ‘drug-free world’ backed up by a ‘war on drugs’ anchored in ‘science’ and enshrined in the international drug control treaties is both naïve and dangerous. Naïve, in that prohibition has had little impact on drug use with the number of consumers increasing by almost 20% from 2006 – 2013 to 246 million people.
Dangerous, in that prohibition fuels inhuman and coerced drug treatments, massive incarcerations, extrajudicial killings and the death penalty in contravention of international law, stokes the spread of blood-borne viruses, drives human rights abusers for profit and contributes to the drug-related deaths of nearly 200,000 people annually.
The War On Opioids Versus Advancing Drug Policy Reform & Decriminalisation
10h15 – 11h30, Wednesday 11th July 2018, ESOF 2018 Toulouse.
Format: Pro & con debate, 75 minutes
Theme: Health in our societies
Target audience: scientists, media, industry & business, policy-makers, general public, students
Abstract:
This high-level, plenary-style panel will evidence how the goal of a ‘drug-free world’ backed up by a ‘war on drugs’ anchored in ‘science’ and enshrined in the international drug control treaties is both naïve and dangerous. Naïve, in that prohibition has had little impact on drug use with the number of consumers increasing by almost 20% from 2006 – 2013 to 246 million people. Dangerous, in that prohibition fuels inhuman and coerced drug treatments, massive incarcerations, extrajudicial killings and the death penalty in contravention of international law, stokes the spread of blood-borne viruses, drives human rights abusers for profit and contributes to the drug-related deaths of nearly 200,000 people annually.
Next Generation Nicotine Products: Killing Me Softly or Our Greatest Public Health Opportunity?
15h15 – 16h30, Wednesday 11th July 2018, ESOF 2018 Toulouse.
Theme: Health in our societies
Cross cutting approaches: • Inequalities • Ethics • Risk and safety
Target audience: scientists, media, industry & business, policy-makers, general public, students
Abstract:
This ‘panel of opposites’ examines the science behind addictions and their brain reward systems, how ‘toxicant detectives’ find and determine harms and industry claims behind today’s product innovations such as vaping and e-cigarettes. Smoking remains the major preventable cause of death in the 21st century, as it was in the 20th.
How To Kill A Spy - How To Catch The Killer
10h15 – 11h30, Thursday 12th July 2018, ESOF 2018 Toulouse.
Abstract:
On March 4, 2018, Sergei Skripal – a former Russian military officer and British spy – and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in Salisbury, England. According to official UK sources, the poison was a Novichok nerve agent, a neurotoxicants developed in Russia about fifty years ago and their use leaves a business card at the crime scene. With over 70 million chemicals synthesised by chemists to date, is it possible to be more discreet in the 21st century?
