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Effective Substance Abuse Programming for Offenders Nov. 22-24, 2004 St. Lucia

Overview of theInter-American Drug Abuse

Control Commission (CICAD)

Organization of American States (OAS)

Emily HolmanDemand Reduction

Unit


OAS Headquartered in Washington, D.C. Oldest international regional

organization Caribbean independent nations are

OAS member states Recently, cooperation agreement

signed with the U.K. to promote the inclusion of overseas territories in CICAD activities (2004)


CICAD/OAS Member States

Antigua & Barbuda

Argentina

Bahamas

Barbados

Belize

Bolivia

Brazil

Canada

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Dominica

Ecuador

El Salvador

Grenada

Guatemala

Guyana

Haiti

Honduras

Jamaica

Mexico

Nicaragua

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Republica Dominicana

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vicent and the Grenadines

Suriname

Trinidad and Tobago

United States

Uruguay

Venezuela


CICAD

Established by the OAS General Assembly in 1986 based upon the recommendation made in the Inter-American Program Action of Rio de Janeiro.

The government of each of the 34 OAS member states assigns a high-ranking representative to the Commission.

The Commission meets twice yearly in the CICAD meetings – upcoming 36th regular session in December.

CICAD Executive Secretariat is housed in OAS headquarters.


CICAD - Objetivos

Promover la cooperación regional y la coordinación entre los 34 países miembros a través de Programas de Acción para:

Prevenir y tratar el consumo ilícito de drogasReducir la oferta y el tráfico ilícito de drogasFortalecer las instituciones y mecanismos nacionales para el control del abuso de drogasMejorar el sistema legal y de control de tráfico ilícito de armas y lavado de activosPromover el desarrollo alternativo en zonas de cultivos ilícitosAyudar a los gobiernos de los países miembros en la recolección y análisis de datos sobre el problema de las drogas

ESTRATEGIA ANTIDROGAS EN EL HEMISFERIO (1997)


CICAD Executive Secretariat

The Secretariat in D.C. is structured according to the following action areas:Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism

Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (OID)

Alternative Development

Legal Development

Institutional Strengthening

Money Laundering Control

Demand Reduction

Supply Reduction


CICAD Multilateral Evaluation

Mechanism (MEM)Evaluate drug situation and anti-drug programs of each member state (reports on a two-year cycle)

Hemispheric evaluation

Follows the progress of individual or collective efforts of participating member states, indicating results obtained as well as obstacles confronting each.


CICAD – Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism (MEM)

MEM Indicators related to offenders: No. 8 – Prevention for specialized populations No. 12 – Standards for drug treatment No. 13 – T & R and aftercare/social reinsertion No. 16C – Prevalence in specific populations

(arrestees, incarcerated offenders) No. 22 – Drug use and related crime No. 44 – Charged for illicit posession (includes

question about alternative sentencing) Public reports on the web at www.cicad.oas.org


CICAD – Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism

(MEM)

Please indicate below which drug treatment services exist in your country, whether they are public or private (private may include NGOs, religious groups, private medical services) how many and geographic coverage:

Public Private Geographic Coverage

Services Y N

how many?

Y N how

many? Municipal Regional National

1. Network for early detection, outreach and referral of cases (5)

2. Detoxification (6)

3. Treatment(7) & rehabilitation

( 8)

4. Social reintegration and aftercare (9)

5. Self-help groups (10)

6. Other (describe) ________________


MEM – Requests for Assistance

Member states may request assistance from the MEM in order to comply with reiterated recommendations

First-round assistance: three projects for incarcerated offenders Peru St. Vincent and the Grenadines Guatemala


National Drug Plans How do they include plans for

prison populations? Many of these were advised by the

CICAD institutional building unit


CICAD – Inter-American Observatory

on Drugs (OID)The mission of the OID is to create a drug information network

for the Americas, to provide information which is objective, updated, viable, and cross-comparable data.

OBJETIVOS

1. Respaldar el desarrollo, por parte de los gobiernos, de una capacidad de investigación nacional en epidemiología del consumo de drogas

2. Consolidar el sistema SIDUC (Inter-American Drug Use Data System project) en las Américas como metodología común de bajo costo que puede ser asumida por los gobiernos nacionales y que proporciona datos oportunos sobre un fenómeno que cambia rápidamente

3. Mejorar y ampliar CICDAT

4. Interpretación de los datos y utilización de los resultados de las investigaciones

5. Apoyo a los sistemas nacionales de información sobre drogas

6. Preparación de proyectos de investigación


CICAD – Inter-American Observatory

on Drugs (OID)Collaboration with the French Observatory on Drugs and Martinique

2003-2004 Round 1: Focus Assessment Studies

2005-2005 Round 2: Studies in prisons

Surveys in Detention Centers

1992-1993 – Two rounds completed in seven member states

Surveys in Prisons Centers

2005 – Tentative to be carried out in one member state in 2005


CICAD – Expert Group on Demand Reduction

Created by CICAD mandate in 1997: (1) research programs and models (2) prevention and education (3) treatment and rehabilitation

1998 – Mexico – Minimum Standards

2000 – Chile – Emerging drugs (synthetics) and heroin threat and community-based drug abuse prevention programs

2001 – Jamaica – Standards of Care

All past documents available on the CICAD website – best point for interchange with Spanish-speaking member states regarding specialized demand reduction issues.


CICAD Demand Reduction Brief history of involvement in

the Caribbean• Caribbean Regional Certificate programme in Addictions Studies

(UWI Certificate in Addictions Studies)

• Eight UWI centers: Barbados, Bahamas, BVI, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago

• Project received outstanding evaluations

• But UNDCP funding ended in 1999; in 2000 CICAD and CAMH (formerly ARF) used balance plus CICAD funds to develop curriculum packages and training videos on counselling skills, pharmacology and drug abuse, prevention programming theories, models and techniques, and addictions interventions (to be made available in early 2001)

• Continued its support in 2000

• 2002 with Caricom and Caridin to improve DR programming and execution


CICAD – Regional Planning/CARICOM• 2002 with Caricom and Caridin to improve DR

programming and execution

• 2001 begain joint planning with Caricom for 5-year DR strategy: Sept. 17-18, 2001 – Guyana – Sub-Regional Demand Reduction Forum – to bring together individuals from the Caribbean member state to discuss the findings of the UK-financed needs assessment

• Oct. 2001 – these recommendations (from Sept.) were submitted to the COHSOD V

• Dec. 2001 Heads of Govt -- ??


OBJECTIVOS:

- Began in 1998 : CICAD and PAHO agreed to provide technical and financial assistance on the national level

-Designed to help governments develop a consensus in the national health care community around the desirability of establishing minimum standards of care, and then to implement practices and guidelines. A long-term objective, recommended by the Expert Group (March 1998) is to develop systems of accreditation for tx providers

-PAHO has provided expertise and support

-1998-1999: Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Uruguay

-2001 – English version of manual used as ref. with Experts in Jamaica

-Barbados

-How would/wouldn’t this cover prisoners?

Standards of Care in Drug Treatment


Fundación Universitaria Luis Amigó, Colombia

Universidad Estatal a Distancia, Costa Rica

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia,

España

Universidad Miguel Hernández, España

Universidad de Deusto, España

Universidad Nacional Federico Villareal, Perú

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Perú

Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón

Rodríguez, Venezuela

Unired Drogas

Universidades Participantes en la

Maestría

La CICAD y el PNSD de España convocan a universidades de

Iberoamerica que cuentan con estudios presenciales de postgrado sobre

Drogodependencias y crea:


Objetivos de la Red Iberoamericana de Universidades con Postgrado en

Drogodependencias • mejora de la calidad, cobertura y especialización de la

formación en drogodependencias.

• intercambio inter-universitario permanente: actualización de conocimientos, contenidos curriculares, investigación, programas y estudios, estudiantes y profesores.

• actuar como foro abierto en el que se promueve la incorporación de nuevas universidades iberoamericanas.


What CICAD is expecting from this workshop Identify priority area Identify immediate-term action plan Report back to CICAD by Jan. 31st on

how first steps are going Country, binational, subregional, or

regional proposals for follow-up activities accepted early 2005

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