This collaboration between the\u00a0 COPOLAD Program, FIIAPP<\/b> and the DGPNSD<\/b> opens Let\u2019s Talk about Public Policy (Hablemos de Pol\u00edticas P\u00fablicas), a series of conversations between experts from institutions to discuss global challenges that can and should be addressed through public policy. #Drugs, the first of these videos, is a three-way conversation between Joan Ram\u00f3n Villalb\u00ed, Government Delegate for the PNSD; Anna Terr\u00f3n, Director of the FIIAPP; and Javier Sagredo, Director of the COPOLAD III cooperation programme on drugs.<\/p>\n
In the words of Joan Ram\u00f3n Villalb\u00ed, Government Delegate for the PNSD, there are three keys to any public policy on drugs. On the one hand, \u201cthey have to be based on the science of knowledge, not on ideas, impulses or ideology\u201d.<\/b> In addition, international drug policy \u201cis based on the international law that comes from the UN<\/b>\u201d and \u201cwe must be aware\u201d that the response to the challenge of drugs has two aspects: \u201ca more police-judicial one, which has to do with controlling supply, and another that consists of prevention, assistance and controlling demand\u201d.<\/p>\n
Along these lines, Javier Sagredo also stressed that \u201ca geostrategic inequality has been generated in relation to how countries have been able to tackle this issue, and this must be taken into account<\/b> when dealing with drug issues\u201d.<\/p>\n
Spanish expertise in Latin America and Caribbean<\/b>
\nData on drug production, trafficking and problematic drug use show a worrying general upward trend: 36 million people worldwide suffer from drug use disorders. Moreover, according to some estimates, drug trafficking is worth between 426 and 652 billion dollars a year \u2013 the equivalent of Sweden\u2019s GDP.<\/b>
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