Course: Drugs, drug use, drug policy and health
Modules:
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?
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
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
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
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
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