Substance Use: A Police Practitioner's Perspective—More Cooperation Between Academics and Practitioners Is Needed

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¹ Drugs, from a pharmacological and scientific perspective, are any active substances which affect the functioning and/or structure of any living organism, whether legal or illegal, acceptable or unacceptable by society, its stakeholders and the public at large.

² A “drug's” pharmacological actions, short or longer term, and one's “drug experience”, which is the outcome of the complex interactions between, the chemically active substance, the user and where it is being used, or site (Zinberg,1984. Drug, Set, and Setting: The Basis for Controlled Intoxicant Use. New Haven: Yale University Press,), present different challenges for effective, needed intervention planning intervention and assessments.

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Maximillian Edelbacher

Mag. Maximilian Edelbacher, Lawyer, University of Vienna, Law Faculty; Chief of Police 1972–2006, highest rank, Hofrat, as Chief of Major Crime Bureau, Vienna, Austria; Academic, (Lecturer, Departments of Economics and of Sociology, University of Vienna, Danube University, Kent State University, and Turku University); International Expert of UNO, OSCE, Council of Europe, EU, 1995; Special Investigator of AVUS GROUP, an International Claim Regulator, 2007, Member of ACUNS–Academic Council on the United Nations System, specialized on Organized Crime, White Collar Crime, Corruption, 2008; Representative of IPES to the United Nations in Vienna, 2011; Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2012; Vice-president of ACUNS, Vienna Liaison Office, 2014; Author of several books, books chapters and articles.

Stan-Shlomo Einstein

Stan-Shlomo Einstein, Ph.D., clinical and social psychologist; student; academician (emeritus); researcher; journalist (newspaper and radio); editor/author (25 books; 91 topic-oriented special issues of Substance Use and Misuse listed as editor/co-editor (22); unlisted as co-editor (69); journal editor-founder Substance Use and Misuse; Drug Forum; Social Pharmacology; Violence, Aggression and Terrorism;Altered States of Consciousness); consultant, lecturer, conference, and training program organizer, exhibit curator, volunteer; awards (Pace Setter award, NIDA; Mayor of Jerusalem Outstanding Volunteer Award). Area of interest: the parameters of failure.