We invite abstracts on all aspects of drug policy but particularly on the conference themes. The conference themes this year include:

• Balancing control and welfare in drug policies Local and city-level drug policies (e.g. in relation to national/international policies) 
• Diversity in drug policy: accommodating ethnicity, class, gender and culture 
• Contextualising drug policy in its geographic, historical, political, economic and cultural settings 
• Cannabis policies, including legalization 
• Drug supply and supply side interventions

Other areas of drug policy research will be welcome, for example research on:

• The role of different kinds of stakeholders and their position in drug policy 
• Drug markets and organized crime 
• Methodological and theoretical developments in drug policy analysis 
• Online markets for illicit drugs 
• Policy options for currently illicit drugs (including NPS, performance enhancing drugs, illegal use of prescription drugs)