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The staff at the OID would like to
take this opportunity to wish everyone the very best in 2005!
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CICAD XXXVI:
GENERAL SANZ FROM THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ELECTED AS NEW CICAD
CHAIR
The Inter-American Drug Abuse Control
Commission (CICAD), a specialized agency of the Organization of
American States, held its thirty sixth regular session in Washington,
D.C., December 7 to 9, 2004.
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Paul Kennedy, CICAD's
outgoing Chair (left), and Major General José Aníbal Sanz
Jiminián, CICAD's new Chair |
The Inaugural
Session was addressed by Ambassador Luigi Enaudi, OAS Acting Secretary
General; Mr. Paul Kennedy of Canada, CICAD’s outgoing Chair; and
Mr. James Mack, CICAD’s Executive Secretary. Ambassador Enaudi
highlighted the changes made in the OAS in the past months, and
CICAD’s important role in the new Department of Multidimensional
Security. He made reference to the Multilateral Evaluation
Mechanism (MEM) as a landmark of international cooperation. |
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Mr. Mack stressed
the importance of collective action to give life to the concept of
shared responsibility with relation to the drug problem. He indicated
his strong commitment to the MEM, highlighting the
importance of MEM recommendations and the need to review the process.
Mr. Mack also stressed the importance of forging stronger links with
other international organizations, and encouraged member states to
make contributions to CICAD's fund.
Mr. Paul Kennedy pointed the
importance of ensuring continuity of improving cross-border
cooperation and border integrity. He also addressed the importance of
establishing priorities in moments of financial difficulties.
The Commission
elected General José Aníbal Sanz Jiminián, head of the National
Drug Council of the Dominican Republic, as CICAD’s new Chair, and
Ambassador Jorge Gumucio, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia,
as CICAD’s new Vice Chair.
The session
addressed issues and programs in the various areas of CICAD’s drug
control efforts, reinforcing the multidimensionality of the drug
phenomenon in the Americas. Two of the most important topics covered
during the meeting was the need to update the MEM to reflect the changing nature of the drug phenomenon, and
the need to strengthen drug prevention programs through the Life
Skills program. In his closing remarks, General Sanz declared 2005 as
the "Year of Illicit Drug Abuse Prevention in the Americas”.
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Alternative
Development:
Organic Banana in the Yungas de la Paz region of Bolivia |
CONAPRED:
Drug consumption studies in Panama |
Grenada:
Community outreach programmes |
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CICAD's
Cost Project:
Working Toward Policy |
CESAR
FAX:
Prescription Drug Use in the United States |
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and Announcements from CICAD's Executive Secretariat |
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REHABILITATION AND MODERNIZATION OF
ORGANIC BANANA
PRODUCTION FOR EXPORT IN ALTO BENI:
A PROCESS OF CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT
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With
the aim of producing organic banana crops in the Yungas de La Paz
region of Bolivia, using modern technologies in an organized system,
the “Rehabilitation and Modernization of Organic Banana
Production for Export” project was created in May 2002. Since that time, the
Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the
Organization of American States (OAS), supporting the Bolivian
government though the Vice-ministry of Alternative Development (VDA),
has financed activities to stimulate production and marketing of
organic bananas, as an example of a crop for Bolivia which is both
licit and profitable crop, as well as ecologically sustainable. This
is seen as part of a national policy objective to create incentives
for moving away from producing illegal or excessive coca in Bolivia.
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Complete document in Word
and PDF
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PANAMA:
DRUG STUDIES AND SURVEYS
The National Drug Commission
in Panama, CONAPRED, as part of its functions, carries out periodic studies
to determine the drug consumption situation in the country with the
objective of creating prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation
programs.
CONAPRED wishes to share some
of the results of these national studies carried out by the Commission
with CICAD's technical assistance.
Complete document in Word
and PDF
(only available in Spanish)
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GRENADA:
COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMMES TO BE INCREASED
The
passage of Hurricane Ivan on 7 September 2004, in Grenada, has created
numerous socio-economic problems for the Government and people of Grenada.
The
hurricane impacted on every sector of the economy and society with
devastating force.
Particularly injurious were the effects on the social sector,
endangering the already fragile situation of a number of vulnerable groups
such as children residing in the rural areas.
Indeed,
the National Council On Drug Control (NCODC), through the Drug Control
Secretariat, has positioned itself to respond to some of these challenges,
particularly in the area of drug prevention. A number of measures would be
taken to strengthen mechanisms which exist in communities and schools, to
respond adequately to problems of drug use and related problems.
Complete
document in Word and PDF
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THE
USE AND PRESENTATION OF COST DATA:
WORKING
TOWARD POLICY
As
the CICAD Cost Program enters the final year of the pilot phase, countries
have begun to consider how to go about presenting their final results.
This article seeks to generate ideas on the use and presentation of
costing research data, with the ultimate goal of positively informing drug
policy.
In
order to present the results of our costing research and how to present them
in an understandable and useful context, it may be worthwhile to return to
some of the most basic questions of costing research.
For example, what are we talking about when we refer to costs?
The answer is that when we refer to the “costs” of drugs we are
talking not merely about the amount budgeted by the government to
address the drug problem, but beyond that, we are referring to the economic
impact that the drug problem imposes on other social sectors and civil
society as a whole.
Complete article in Word
and PDF
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NUMBER
OF FIRST TIME NON-MEDICAL USERS OF PRESCRIPTION PAIN RELIEVERS IN THE
U.S. REMAINS
AT PEAK LEVEL, RIVALING MARIHUANA
Number of New Ecstasy Users Declines
CESAR FAX:
INFORMATION FROM THE CENTER FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE RESEARCH
University of Maryland, College Park
http://www.cesar.umd.edu/
The number of persons in the
United States who used
prescription pain relievers for non-medical purposes for the first time was
nearly equal that of new marihuana users in 2002, according to data from the
National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). From 2001 to 2002, the
number of Americans who reported non-medical use of prescription pain
relievers for the first time remained at peak level for nearly 2.5 million
users.
For complete article, click here
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ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES FROM
CICAD'S
EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT
Meeting on the Group of Experts on
Demand Reduction
The Expert Group on Demand Reduction convoked their Sixth Meeting in Buenos
Aires, Argentina from September 28-30, 2004, for the purposes of examining
best practices for School-based Substance Abuse Prevention. The objective
was to elaborate a set of guidelines to serve as basis for developing
strategies for school-based prevention appropriate for implementation in OAS
member states. Experts from 22 nations in Latin America, the United States
and the Caribbean were in attendance.
The document "Hemispheric
Guidelines for School-based Prevention", which was a product of this
meeting, was approved by the Commission during its thirty-sixth regular
session.
For more information, complete article in Word
and PDF.
Effective
Substance Abuse Programming for Offenders Workshop in St. Lucia
For
three days in late November, prison administrators, drug treatment
specialists, and drug policy officials from eight Caribbean nations and two
U.K. overseas territories gathered in St. Lucia to examine Canadian and
Caribbean methods for providing substance abuse services for drug-involved
offenders.
They reviewed research-based methods for offender treatment, strategies for
mobilizing existing human and community resources, international and
regional program models, regional research, and the necessity for a
continuum of services from pre-incarceration to post-release aftercare.
For more information, complete article in Word
and PDF.
E-Learning
Program
CICAD, in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), is
offering online courses in: Logical Framework for Project Design, and
Monitoring and Evaluation of Projects. We invite you to participate in these
courses. These are being offered on a rolling basis through our Web page,
and the timeframe of the course is flexible depending on the schedule of the
students. Each person can take the courses at their own pace. For more
information, please email us.
To register, please click
here.
Alcohol-related
courses in Spain
The Spanish Drug-Addictions Society in Spain is promoting a learning program
for psychologists that provides minimum knowledge for the proper
implementation and development of programs related to the intervention in
problems derived from the consumption of alcohol. This program is focused in
the acquisition of basic knowledge that enable the proper development of
intervention programs on alcoholics. The course is acknowledged by the
National Drug Plan in Spain, and it is accredited as a continuing education
course by the Ministry of Consumption and Sanity with a total of 7.5
credits.
It is an online course in which the theoretical content is presented through
systematic modules. The didactical content are in Web format and
specifically designed for self-study and for their permanent availability.
For more information, please click here
-- only in Spanish.
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