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Skip to content [#jupiterx-main] About Mission and history Drug policy in the region Aims and objectives Commissioners Partners and Donors Secretariat Careers Publications News and Media Permission Request News and articles Images Video Media about us Partners Contact Us About Mission and history Drug policy in the region Aims and objectives Commissioners Partners and Donors Secretariat Careers Publications News and Media Permission Request News and articles Images Video Media about us Partners Contact Us About Mission and history Drug policy in the region Aims and objectives Commissioners Partners and Donors Secretariat Careers Publications News and Media Permission Request News and articles Images Video Media about us Partners Contact Us About Mission and history Drug policy in the region Aims and objectives Commissioners Partners and Donors Secretariat Careers Publications News and Media Permission Request News and articles Images Video Media about us Partners Contact Us To inspiring better drug policies in the region Why we came together The ECECACD was created in 2021 by leaders from the region, former high-level politicians, diplomats, scientists, philanthropists to advocate for evidence-based, human rights oriented drug policy in the EECA region. Watch the video News and Articles Read News ECECACD highlighted the EECA region perspectives at the the European Conference on Law Enforcement and Public Health Read More Press Conference: “One year On: The Impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on Drug and Health Policy in Ukraine and across the Eastern European and Central Asian region Read More Lithuanian Seimas Committee on Legal Affairs approved the bill on decriminalization of cannabis Read More WHAT WE SAY The ECECACD produces technical and political reports and evidence-based policy recommendations that ground drug policies in human rights, health and development. Read Publications Guiding principles towards effective and humane drug policies in Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia The region of Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia (ECECA) is characterized by high levels of high-risk drug use and by slow progress towards more effective health- and human Read More Production, trafficking and consumption of illicit drugs in EECA region The Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) region hosts major routes for trafficking Afghan opiates as well as newly emerging Afghan-produced ephedrine and amphetamine. Read More Perception of drugs in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia: overhaul needed Prejudices and fears have long surrounded drugs, not always agreeing with facts and reality – yet validated by drug prohibition. Read More Drug laws and policies in four regions of Eurasia Drug laws and their enforcement are too often focused on people who use drugs, rather than those who are engaged in other harmful criminal activity in the context of commercial drug trafficking. Read More Countries need evidence-based drug policy approaches 0 PEOPLE WHO USE DRUGS LIVING IN THE REGION* * Global State of Harm Reduction 2020 0 EUROS* *The Economist Intelligence Unit report based on the study “ Drug Policies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: the Economic, Health and Social Impact ” Can be saved by abandoning punitive drug policy Commissioners Aleksander Kwaśniewski (Chair) former President of the Republic of Poland, member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy Michel Kazatchkine former Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Senior Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland; member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy Оlena Pinchuk founder of the Olena Pinchuk Foundation, Ukraine Vytenis Andriukaitis WHO Special Envoy for the European Region; former European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Lithuania Andris Piebalgs former European Commissioner for Development; Professor at the European University Institute, Latvia Elvira Surabaldiyeva former Deputy Prime Minister on Social Affairs, Kyrgyzstan Pavel Bém former Mayor of Prague; former Head of Drug Policies, Czech Republic; member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy Volodymyr Tymoshenko Ukrainian law enforcement, statesman, scientist. Professor, PhD in law science, Academic of the Political Science Academy of Ukraine. General. Public official of the 1st rank Natalia Nikitenko Former member of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan Privacy Policy Terms Of Use Contact us secretary@ececacd.org Twitter Facebook-f Youtube © 2021. Eastern and Central European and Central Asian Commission on Drug Policy (ECECACD)