European union countries are seeking to tackle these issues of drug driving through the DRUID research project. It seeks to provide recommendations on issues of prevention, screening devices and so on… It will evaluate prevention, legal enforcement, training measures, it will create a classification system and all these will be presented to the European Union. …
From Panel Discussions/Roundtables
CND day 1 Round table on public health and safety issues: Czech Republic statement
There are a number of keys problems with facing these issues – There are too few statistics on drug driving and we should share greater resources. – Scientific evidence is under developed – different countries have different policies and this is complicating the issue – The issue of prescription drugs. Some drugs significantly impact behaviours …
CND day 1 Round table on public health and safety issues: China response
China agress with the Swiss and US representative. With regards to drug driving, countries seem to be naive to drug driving and nation states need to develop further legislation on this matter. Education also needs to be strengthened. However, we need tougher measures as well for those guilty of drug driving and enforcement needs to …
CND day 1 Round table on public health and safety issues: Switzerland statement
We believe we need to generate a consensus around this topic and how to we deal with A, alcohol and drug driving B, and how we deal with these substances in the public space. The realities of substance use need to be addresses in public spaces however we believe we need to accept that degradation …
CND day 1 Round table on public health and safety issues: United States
A significant increase in drug-driving has occurred not just in the United States, bu globally as well. We also know that its a key issue that effects key shipping routes in the developing world and the US has has set a limit of a 10% prevalence by 2015. We are also delivering resources to civil …
CND day 1 Round table on joint responsibility: Iran statement
Iran views the drug problem as a truly global in nature and as a result, Iran has deepened its relationships with many regional and international bodies to tackle the drug problems. UNODC must also ensure that the drug war is kept away from political pretexts to ensure its success.