Abstract: There is a substantial evidence base on the effectiveness of different policies in reducing the harm done by alcohol. Policies that regulate the economic and physical availability of alcohol are effective in reducing alcohol-related harm. Enforced legislative measures to reduce drinking and driving and interventions individually directed to drinkers already at risk are also effective. The evidence shows that information and education programmes do not reduce alcohol-related harm; nevertheless, they have a role in providing information, reframing alcohol-related problems and increasing attention to alcohol on the political and public agendas. In all parts of the European Union, population-based interventions represent a highly cost– effective use of resources to reduce alcohol-related harm. Brief interventions for individual high-risk drinkers are also cost–effective, but are harder to scale up because of their associated training and manpower needs.

Abstract: There is a growing recognition around the world that the prohibition of drugs is a counterproductive failure. However, a major barrier to drug law reform has been a widespread fear of the unknown – just what could a post-prohibition regime look like? For the first time, ‘After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation’ answers that question by proposing specific models of regulation for each main type and preparation of prohibited drug, coupled with the principles and rationale for doing so. We demonstrate that moving to the legal regulation of drugs is not an unthinkable, politically impossible step in the dark, but a sensible, pragmatic approach to control drug production, supply and use.

Abstract: The World Drug Report presents the most comprehensive statistical view of today’s illicit drug situation. This year’s edition reports signs of long-term containment of the global problem. However, the overall trend masks contrasting regional situations, which the report examines in detail. For instance, while an impressive multi-year reduction in opium poppy cultivation continued in South-East Asia, Afghanistan recorded a large increase in 2006. More interceptions of cocaine and heroin shipments across the world have played an important part in stabilizing the market. However, as we witness successes in some areas, challenges appear in others. Although drug abuse levels are stabilizing globally, countries along major and new trafficking routes, such as those now going through Africa, may face increasing levels of drug consumption. The World Drug Report 2007 also discusses a possible method to better assess and monitor the role played by organized crime in transnational drug trafficking.

Abstract: The World Drug Report presents comprehensive information on the illicit drug situation. It provides detailed estimates and trends on production, trafficking and consumption in the opium/heroin, coca/cocaine, cannabis and amphetamine-type stimulants markets. This year, for the first time, the World Drug Report includes special feature sections on the quality of drug data available to UNODC, trends in drug use among young people and police-recorded drug offences. It also discusses one the most formidable unintended consequences of drug control – the black market for drugs – and how the international community best can tackle it.

Abstract: The video contains a compilation with scenes from different rave parties all over the world. It includes interviews with Mr. Mike (DJ & Producer), Dani Gasser (Video Producer), some drug and music experts and a lot of partypeople about techno and ecstasy. A lot of scenes are from the legendary rave partys @ altes Gugelmannareal in Roggwil, Switzerland. The spoken language is Swiss-German. Backcover information: Technopartys, the drug ecstasy and endless dancing young persons dominate the music – and youth culture of the 90’s. In the Western European metropolises flow weekend for weekend thousands of young persons to eternally long dance marathons. They are the new rituals, they are the life feeling of this culture. Who can be stuck on from this movement virus knows that dance will never more be like it once was... What “Flowerpower” for the early 70’s was is Techno for the 90’s. Like that time before the break-through of popmusic, encounters the Techno culture in traditional circles on skepticism, on lack of understanding and refusal. The film focuses between fascination and border experience the life feeling of this raving scene and techno generation. Young persons report of their experiences with the music and ecstasy, scene experts and specialists inform about culture and drugs. The movie was filmed in Basel, Roggwil, Zurich, Lausanne and other locations in Switzerland. It plays also in Amsterdam, Berlin, Barcelona, Cologne, Milan and somewhere in Europe and all the metropolises of the world.