4/4 UNODC - How the agency used data to promote its agenda and how it is (slightly) better now.
According to Marc Twain (1907, p. 471), himself claiming to quote Benjamin Disraeli: “there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies,...
3/4 UNODC - How did the organization evolve over the years ?
As the readers may already know, drug policy debate often provokes deep emotional reactions among implicated individuals. One of the...
2/4 UNODC - Current financial and institutional status
Reviewing current UNODC finances and budget capacities remain important elements in order to comprehend the efficacy and limitations of...
1/4 UNODC - How the agency came to be? The rise of UNDCP
Although unaligned with other U.N. agencies, in recent years, UNODC - the U.N drug control agency - has slowly been evolving from a...
7/7 Scheduling - The future of drugs?
What can we foresee for the future of drugs? Aside from the already existing rise of designer drugs, several researchers argue that we...
6/7 Scheduling - Critical analysis of the concept
Beyond the abnormalities and lack of scientific ground found in the precedent article, the problematic around the current IDCR scheduling...
5/7 Scheduling - How could we better classify drugs?
Since the ratification of the International Drug Control Regime (IDCR) conventions, science has made substantial progress while it could...
4/7 Scheduling - What about tobacco?
Tobacco is both a formidable and a terrible example advocating for the regulation of a potentially harmful substance. Past related...
3/7 Scheduling - The case of ketamine
In 2012, the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) published a technical report, stating that “concerns were raised that if...
2/7 Scheduling - The international system
Drugs, whatever the kind, if abused, can potentially create severe harms to individuals and societies. For this proclaimed reason, the...