Tag: Drug

Event promotion: Beyond the Substance: Psychedelics and the Challenge of Medical Research and Drug Policy

Posted on by crimctr in Event promotion, New Events

Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series - Beyond the Substance: Psychedelics and the Challenge of Medical Research and Drug Policy

Speaker: Dr. Ido Hartogsohn
Discussant: Prof. Gordon Mathews
Dr. Alex Gearin
Moderator: Dr. Priscilla Song
Date: Monday 10 January 2022
Time: 5:00 p.m. Hong Kong (9:00 a.m. London / 11:00 a.m. Tel Aviv / 8:00 p.m. Sydney)
Delivery: via Zoom (zoom session details will be sent prior to the event after registration)

Abstract:
Medical science and drug policy approaches have often been based on essentialist definitions of drug action and dichotomous distinctions between licit drugs and drugs of abuse. In recent years, though, a growing awareness fo the context-dependency and socio-cultural situatedness of drug effects have opened up the prospect of rethinking medical drug research and drug policy in light of social constructivist insights into drug effects, which place the emphasis on the cruciality of set and setting (context) rather than chemical essentialism. Based on Ido Hartogsohn's American Trip: Set, Setting and the Psychedelic Experience in the 20th Century (MIT Press, 2020), the talk will use the story of mid-twentieth-century American psychedelic research and culture as a backdrop for an examination of social-constructivist insights into the context-dependency of drug effects and their implications for medical research and drug policy.

Registration: https://rb.gy/eyfbrk

Professor Karen Joe Laidler: Killing in the name of the war on drugs

Posted on by crimctr in Fellow's Update, Research, Updates

Editorial of the special section of the International Journal of Drug Policy, by our Centre Director Professor Karen Joe Laidler.
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The Asian region is marked by a high number of killings that are carried out in the name of the war on drugs. Several countries retain the death penalty for drug offences, and there are also numerous extra-judicial killings of people who use drugs, especially in the Philippines. This special section of the International Journal of Drug Policy will build on work presented at the first Asian regional meeting of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy, where several papers on such killings were presented.

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UNODC: Internship Recruitment

Posted on by crimctr in Event promotion
An internship opportunity are opening with the Secretariat of the International Narcotics Control Board (SINCB), Division for Treaty Affairs (DTA), at UNODC! The internship is unpaid, and expected to last 6 months, starting from the beginning/mid February 2021. English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the position advertised, oral and written fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official United Nations language is desirable.
NOTE: To qualify for an internship with the United Nations Internship Programme, applicants must meet one of the following requirements:
(a) be enrolled in, or have completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher);
(b) be enrolled in, or have completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor’s level or equivalent).
(OFFICIAL WRITTEN PROOF FROM THE UNIVERSITY SUPPORTING ONE OF THE ABOVE POSSIBILITIES MUST BE ATTACHED TO THE INSPIRA APPLICATION)
Don’t miss the chance, click here for more details!