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a research organization based in Washington, DC. Mr Basham previously served as a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, where he is currently an Adjunct Scholar. Prior to joining Cato, he served as the Director of the Social Affairs Centre at The Fraser Institute. He has written and edited books, scholarly articles, and studies on a variety of domestic and foreign-policy topics, including campaign finance, democratization, education reform, obesity, political marketing, and the regulation of risk. A frequent media commentator, his articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, Sunday Telegraph, The Independent, Australian Financial Review, National Post, and Globe & Mail. Mr Basham earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from Carleton University, the University of Houston, and Cambridge University, respectively.

Unit, Substance Abuse and AIDS, of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (SFOPH). He has a M.S. and Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. After several years with the United Nations and other international organizations, in 1987 he was appointed science attaché at the Swiss Embassy in Washington, DC. From 1993 to 1995, he served as deputy head of the Section AIDS of the SFOPH. He has held his present position since the summer of 1996.

and physiology at the University of Bern. He has a diploma in education and has also studied psychology, philosophy and religion, including Buddhist psychology and philosophy in India and Nepal. He established and managed an in-patient drug-rehabilitation institution near Bern and a drug-prevention program for schools in the Canton of Bern. Mr Minder has also taught communication skills, social competence, and drug prevention as part of post-graduate training for teachers in the Canton of Bern and social psychology in the training program for nurses. He has been a consultant for health education and health promotion in schools in the Department of Education of the Canton of Berne, has published a brochure on drug prevention for young people, and was a representative for substance abuse and health promotion in the Department of Health and Social Welfare of the Canton of Bern.

at the University of Toronto in 1974 and received his bachelor of laws degree from the University of Ottawa in 1977. He obtained his Master of Laws degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1979. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1980. From 1980 to 1981, Mr. Oscapella served as a commission counsel with the McDonald Commission of Inquiry into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. From 1982 to 1985, he was Director of Legislation and Law Reform for the Canadian Bar Association. Since 1985, Mr. Oscapella has been an independent adviser on Canadian legislative and social policy issues. Mr. Oscapella has written and lectured extensively in Canada and abroad on privacy and drug policy issues. He is a former chair of the drug-policy group of the Law Reform Commission of Canada and a founding member of the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy. He sat for several years on the policy committee of the Canadian Criminal Justice Association and is a member of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation, a drug-policy think-tank based in New York and Washington, DC.

Emergency Response Team, and as an instructor at the British Columbia Police Academy. He also designed programs and taught use of force at the Justice Institute of British Columbia and Vancouver's Langara College, published regularly on related topics, performed research for the Hon. Mr. Justice W.T. Oppal's Commission of Inquiry, Policing in British Columbia. Gil Puder died of cancer in November 1999, shortly after completing this chapter.

At the time of preparing this paper, he was Chief Scientist at the Addiction Research Foundation Division of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, and Professor (status only) in the Departments of Sociology, Psychiatry and Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto. Dr Room is a sociologist, educated at Princeton and the University of California, Berkeley. From 1977 to 1991, he was Scientifi c Director of the Alcohol Research Group in Berkeley, California, and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley.Dr. Room is a member of the World Health Organization's Expert Advisory Panel on Drug and Alcohol Dependence and a recipient of the Jellinek Memorial Award for Alcohol Studies.

work for clients in both the private and the public sectors. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of British Columbia, an M.A. from Université Laval in Quebec City, and a B.A. from the University of Toronto. Dr Savas has also studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris, from which he received a D.E.A., and Essex University in England, where he studied data analysis. Mr. Savas' professional and academic background includes expertise in public policy and communications research for a wide variety of clients in the public and private sectors. As Senior Vice-President, he has conducted studies in British Columbia and Canada, looking at public opinion on a diverse number of topics, including education, immigration, and refugees; multiculturalism, national unity, and bilingualism; perceptions of business and labour; the role of government; corporate image and reputation and corporate community involvement; aboriginal affairs; youth and government; health care; and environmental and land-use issues.

for Arizonans for Drug Policy Reform, the organization that drafted and promoted Arizona's Proposition 200, The Drug Medicalization, Prevention, and Control Act of 1996. He is Associate Editor of Arizona Medicine, the journal of the Arizona Medical Association, and a Director of the Maricopa County Medical Society.

Kingdom. He has done research and has published in many areas of health economics. His interest in illegal drugs stems from concern for the welfare of users and from the study of the economics of neonatal intensive care for low-birthweight infants, some of whom are born addicted to drugs. Publications on drug matters include Winning the War on Drugs: To Legalise or Not? (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 1994); and Harm Reduction, Rational Addiction and the Optimal Prescribing of Illegal Drugs (Contemporary Economic Policy 12 [July 1994]: 101-08).