UNIGE - Drugs, drug use, drug policy and health 

Teaser

Video 1:Introduction to the MOOC

Video 2: Introduction to Module 1

Video 3: The social construction of drugs

Video 4: Why do people use drugs?

Video 5: Why are drugs internationally controlled?

Video 6: What constitutes the international drug control framework?

Video 7: Are the international drug control conventions binding on States?

Video 8: The increasing questioning of the prohibition regime

Video 9: UNGASS 2016: a crack in the international consensus?

Syllabus and course plan

Map of the content of all Modules

Essential reading for Module 1

Optional additional resources for Module 1

Questions on Video 6 "What constitutes the international drug control framework? "

Question on video 7 "Are the international drug control conventions binding on States? "

Can you name the unintended consequences of the prohibition regime?

Module 1 - Graded Quiz

Video 1: Introduction to Module 2

Video 2: Epidemiology of drug use

Video 3: What is the World Drug Report?

Video 4: Perceptions about drugs and drug users around the world

Video 5: Stigmatization of women who use drugs

Video 6: What does science tell us about the benefits and harms of using drugs?

Video 7: Classifying drugs according to their harms

Video 8: Does drug use mean dependence?

Video 9: Health issues related to drug use

Bonus video: HCV and HIV among People Who Inject Drugs

Essential reading for Module 2

Optional additional resources for Module 2

Quiz on perceptions of drugs and people who use drugs

Can you classify drugs according to their relative harms?

What do you know about health issues related to drug use?

Module 2 - Graded Quiz

Introduction to Module 3

Video 2: How public health policies address drug use

Video 3: Harm reduction: concept and tools

Video 4: What is the history of harm reduction?

Video 5: Harm reduction is effective

Bonus video: Harm reduction saves lives

Bonus video: The Global State of Harm Reduction

Bonus video: La Mission Interministérielle de Lutte contre les Drogues et les Conduites Addictives en France: Principes et actions

Video 6: When is treatment necessary?

Video 7: Fitting harm reduction into existing health policies

Video 8: Prevention, harm reduction and treatment complement one another

Essential reading for Module 3

Optional additional resources for Module 3

Survey: your language profile and your use of subtitles

Can you name key populations related to drug use? and what do you know about the effectiveness of harm reduction measures?

Can harm reduction be integrated into health policies?

Module 3 - Graded Quiz

Introduction to Module 4

Video 2: Most drug policies in the world are based on prohibition law enforcement and criminalization of drug use

Video 3: Are prohibition law enforcement drug policies effective?

Video 4: The negative impact on health of prohibition law enforcement drug policies

Video 5: The impact of law enforcement on public health and public safety

Video 6: How law enforcement and health can cooperate to improve health

Video 7: How the human rights framework and the drug control framework interact

Video 8: Prohibitionist drug policies: violations of human rights

Video 9: Prohibitionist drug policies: violations of human rights of women who use drugs

Video 10: A closer look at drug policies in Asia ? the limits of extremity in drug policy

Video 11: Violations of human rights in Central America and South America

Video 12: Prohibitionist law enforcement drug policies negatively impact development and the environment

Video 13: Prohibition fuels violence, crime and corruption

Video 14: How prohibition fuels violence, crime and corruption: the situation in Central America

Video 15: How drug law enforcement affects drug markets

Bonus video: The situation in Indonesia

Bonus video: Violations of human rights of people who use drugs: the situation in Latin America

Bonus video: The situation in the Middle East and North Africa Region

Bonus video: Violations of human rights of people who use drugs: the situation in Brazil

Bonus video: Violations of human rights of people who use drugs: the situation in the Eurasian region

Essential reading for Module 4

Optional additional resources for Module 4

Quiz on the relationship between international drug laws and international human rights laws

Module 4 - Graded Quiz

Video 1: Introduction to Module 5

Video 2: The international scheduling of drugs

Video 3: How the international system of scheduling of drugs works: the WHO perspective

Video 4: The barriers to access to essential medicines

Video 5: The special case of the opioid epidemic in the United States

Video 6: Medical use of cannabis and cannabinoids

Video 7: The case for a revision of the international scheduling of drugs

Essential reading for Module 5

Optional additional resources for Module

Quiz on the international drug scheduling system

Quiz on the barriers to access to essential medicines

Quiz on the opioid epidemic in the United States

Quiz on the international scheduling process

Module 5 - Graded Quiz

Video 1: Introduction to Module 6

Video 2: The failure of prohibitionist drug policies

Video 3: The case for drug policy reform

Video 4: Decriminalisation

Video 5: Legalisation and Regulation

Video 6. Monitoring drug policies

Video 7: The role of civil society

Video 8: The role of drug user groups

Video 9: Would you join the drug reform movement?

Video 10: What you can do?

Bonus video: What do drug policies look like in Latin America

Bonus video: Approches de Réduction des Risques en Afrique de l'Ouest

Conclusion

Essential reading for Module 6

Optional additional resources for Module 6

3 day EXECUTIVE COURSE on DRUG POLICY, DIPLOMACY AND PUBLIC HEALTH at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, in October 2019

Quick quiz on decriminalisation