Summary
This paper, prepared at the request of the HDG of the Council of the EU, is intended to provide a short overview of issues pertinent to European participation in the planned CND thematic debates on drug abuse and HIV / AIDS prevention to be held at the forthcoming session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) March 20051.
This paper is not intended as a comprehensive review of the considerable volume of evidence in this area; rather, the objective is to provide a short top-level summary of some of the key issues. A number of the more important supporting references are provided at the end of this document and the EMCDDA can be contacted for a more detailed discussion on the technical and scientific background to any of the summary points raised here.
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