Demand Reduction: Resources

• CICAD Hemispheric Guidelines on School-based Prevention (2005) (Adobe Acrobat, 1.1 mb)

• Neuroscience of Psychoactive Substance Use and Dependence (WHO, 2004)  (Adobe Acrobat, 1.87 mb)
  CICAD/PAHO translation to Spanish now available)

• CICAD Hemispheric Expert Group on Demand Reduction

• Minimum Standards of Care for Drug Abuse Treatment in the Americas

• Practical Guide for the Organization of a Comprehensive Drug Dependence Treatment System
      by CICAD Treatment Working Group (October 2003) 

• Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (OID)
• Inter-American Data Control System (SIDUC) (2003)
• Caribbean Drug Information Network (CARIDIN)

Worldwide:

• Links to organizations working in substance abuse prevention, treatment, and research
• Resources on selected general topics and key issues in demand reduction
• United Nations Declaration on the Guiding Principles of Drug Demand Reduction PDF of 1998

• Summer Institute on Alcohol, Drugs and Addiction
  Amsterdam, 12-24 July 2009