Drug Policy Must Return to Focus on Public Health, SPP Panelists Say

Global drug policy must move away from stigmatizing and criminalizing users and focus on the public health issues at stake, panelists concluded at the third drug policy debate hosted by CEU’s School of Public Policy and the Open Society Foundations’ Global Drug Policy Program on April 11. Panelists expressed hope that the current momentum in this direction will result in significant changes at the United Nations drug policy summit slated for 2016.

The debate was opened by SPP Dean Wolfgang Reinicke, and moderated by Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, director of the Open Society Foundations’ Global Drug Policy Program.