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1 Adding Articles/Topics
2 Citations/Sources
3 Sidebox

[edit] Adding Articles/Topics

Making a few suggestions directly on the Project page, and will post here in future as the Project grows before making changes to the actual Project page. I'm going to add things like Addiction Treatment/Harm Reduction from a Policy perspective, as I think that "Drug Policy" shouldn't just encompass criminal matters and the scheduling of substances. I've previously suggested that the "Drug Injection" page be broadened to include IM and SkinPopping on top of IV use, and the style/tone needs to be changed so as to NOT sound like a HowTo. I suggest that to maintain NPOV, we have to look at both the Decriminalization/Legalization movement and the formal government policies. Policy on illicit drug manufacture (such as the scheduling/control of chemical precursers in addition to the products themselves) is another good area, as it's newly implemented by the UN. A list of the lobby groups would also form a good starting place for this Project.Shamanchill (talk) 22:21, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for the invite. I'm going to add some articles to the list as I think of them. I've been thinking for a while of making a WikiProject for recreational/psychoactive drugs in general... is it possible this could be broadened? Either way, I think harm reduction fits in fine because a lot of HR programs are government-run or government-funded. Also, you may want to advertise at WP Psychedelics, Dissociatives and Deliriants. --Galaxiaad (talk) 21:46, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Anytime and thanks for the quick join/comment - there's another project, which I belonged to first due to an interest in Entheogens, named Wikipedia:WikiProject_Psychedelics,_Dissociatives_and_Deliriants. This one's a bit broader in scope as far as the substances involved but limited to matters of Policy (in as broad a scope as we can make it to encompass both official/unofficial policy internationally and regionally, as well as tracking/monitoring and even perhaps public opinion), and I'm pretty sure that the "Hallucinogens" project, as it's also known, limits itself to the substances themselves. Harm reduction for sure fits into this Project, and we should probably spend some time in finding synergies between the two once this one gets a bit more steam. Shamanchill (talk) 22:04, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Citations/Sources

I know that individual governments and the UN will have lots of documentation about their laws and policy online, but does anyone else have access to academic sources on these matters? I've got an excellent book called "Cocaine Politics" written by two Berkeley profs that looks at the CIA's involvement in the traffick of that substance, as well as both the official and clandestine policy related to it. More sources like that would help... Shamanchill (talk) 22:21, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sidebox

I'd like to create a sidebox or endboxfor this project, to help organize and link all DP related articles. We might consider breaking things down much like we have our pages, on Harm Reduction, Legal Policy, Covert Policy, etc. Regions, as well as substances involved might also be included. Templates to consider below - hit edit page to see code for each to cannibalize as we see fit. I also hope that we can make these templates to transcode, rather than pasting all this into each page, but may have to do the latter to customize for each page. Thoughts?Shamanchill (talk) 00:31, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Shall we use or modify this one? Regulation of Theraputic etc

U.S. drug regulation

Prescription drugs
Over-the-counter drugs

Law
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 Controlled Substances Act Prescription Drug Marketing Act Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act Hatch-Waxman exemption

Government agencies
United States Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration Drug Enforcement Administration National Institutes of Health Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

Process
Drug development New drug application Investigational new drug Clinical trial (Phase I, II, III, IV) Randomized controlled trial Pharmacovigilance Abbreviated New Drug Application Fast track approval

International coordination
International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use Uppsala Monitoring Centre World Health Organization Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs

Non-governmental organizations
Institute of Medicine Research on Adverse Drug events And Reports

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[edit] Sidebox (infobox) example Arthur C Clarke

Sir Arthur C. Clarke, CBE
Arthur C. Clarke at his home office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 28 March 2005
Born	16 December 1917(1917-12-16) Minehead, Somerset, United Kingdom
Died	19 March 2008 (aged 90) Colombo, Sri Lanka
Pen name	Charles Willis,^[1] E.G. O'Brien^[1]
Occupation	Author, Inventor
Nationality	British and Sri Lankan
Genres	Hard Science Fiction, Popular Science
Subjects	Science
Notable work(s)	Childhood's End 2001: A Space Odyssey The City and the Stars The Songs of Distant Earth Rendezvous with Rama The Fountains of Paradise
Spouse(s)	Marilyn Mayfield (1953-1964)

Influences H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Lord Dunsany, Olaf Stapledon

Influenced Stephen Baxter

Official website http://www.clarkefoundation.org/

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