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Schedule

Week 1	Topic 1
Week 2	Topic 2
Week 3	Topic 3
Week 4	Topic 4
Week 5	Topic 5
Week 6	Topic 6
Week 7	Topic 7
Week 8	Topic 8
Week 9	Topic 9
Week 10	Topic 10
Week 11	Final Exam

Knowledge
At the end of this unit you should be able to demonstrate an understanding of:
1. Trends in the history of drug and alcohol policy development;
2. Current controversies related to drug and alcohol policy
3. National policy approaches from around the globe and the differences among them ;
4. The role of international organizations and international treaties in drug-related interventions;
5. Various stakeholder group shaping and affected by drug and alcohol policy;
6. Differences between policies that intervene at the level of supply vs. those that intervene at the level of demand;
7. Drug control strategies, including, but not limited to economic, regulatory, criminal justice, treatment policy, media/social marketing, practical guidelines, and harm reduction strategies; 8. How substance abuse services are organized and financed;
9. the complex relationship between political trends, policy and public health effects;
10. How substance-related research can influence policy.

Skills and Attitudes
You will be expected to develop and/or enhance your:
11. knowledge of historical and current influences on the development and implementation of drug and alcohol policy;
12. competence in critically comparing policies and understanding the affect of policy decisions on public health outcomes and cost ;
13. ability to effectively synthesize information and ideas in relation to controversies associated with drug and alcohol-related policy;
14. academic writing skills;
15. ability to effectively use online resources related to drug and alcohol policy;
16. ability to effectively communicate your intellectual curiosity and knowledge to others in an online discussion.

STUDY MATERIAL

Each week new material is released that you will work through. Your first focus should be on the Topic outline as this describes what you need to master on a certain topic and what information is available to you. Each study topic is comprised of the following components:

• learning objectives
• revision questions
• concept lecture
• readings
• quiz to test your understanding (not graded)
• discussion forum

The expected work load for the course is 20 hours a week. This will be spent on reviewing the video and reading material, doing the revision quizzes, engaging in discussion and preparing for the assessments.

Part 1 - The Historical, Philosophical, and Legal Underpinnings of Drug and Addiction Policy
Topic 1:  History of Policy Development (Courtwright)
Topic 2:  Addiction Policy, Politics, and Public Health (Cohen)
Topic 3:  Development of International Drug Control Conventions and International Organizations: Treaties for controlling substances and access to controlled medications (O’Keeffe and Scholten)

Part 2 - Recent trends in National and International Drug Policies and Drug and Addiction Control Strategies
Topic 4:  Drug Policy Levers and Control Strategies (Supply reduction, Demand reduction and harm reduction) (Iguchi)
Topic 5:  National and International Drug Policies (Trace)
Topic 6:  Alcohol Policy (Babor)

Part 3 - Influences on the Development of Policy and the role of Science in Addiction Policy
Topic 7:  Stakeholders (NGOs and community organizations) (Laredo)
Topic 8:  Bridging the Research-Policy Divide (Ritter)

Part 4 - Current Topics and Controversies
Topic 9:  Tobacco, Alcohol and Drug Policies (Nutt)
Topic 10:  Current Topics/Controversies in Addiction Policy:  Legalization of Marijuana

Final Exam

Assessment Task	Task Type	Due (approx)	Weighting	Learning Outcome
Online Tests	Formative	Weeks 1-10
Discussion Board participation	Summative	Weeks 1-10	20%
Brief Exercises on Appropriate use of Source Material, Database Searches	Summative	Weeks 3&4	5%
Written Assignments x 2	Summative	Week 6	35% (15% and 20% respectively)
Written Examination	Summative	Week 11	40%

FORMATIVE

Formative assessment in this course/module includes online tests that are designed to help you learn and increase your level of understanding of the course/module material. The tests will be undertaken online, on a weekly basis. Feedback will be provided in the form of model answers or comments and question/test scores (you will see your own results for each question in the test and the
class average). You can attempt the tests multiple times (and achieve the highest score possible, if you wish). Since this assessment is formative, the scores for these tests will not contribute to your final grade for the course/module, however their completion will be required (at least one attempt to answer each question). Once you have completed all the necessary tests you will receive permission to undertake
the written examination for the course/module.

SUMMATIVE

Discussion Board
Your Discussion Board participation will contribute 20% of the final grade for this course/module. There will be a minimum of 10 discussion topics offered by the course instructor, up to a maximum of 10. You MUST participate in at least 7 of the discussions, and for full credit, you MUST offer more than two comments—we are looking to develop a dialogue among students and faculty here!

Brief Exercises
You will be asked to complete two short exercises that together, will constitute 5% of your mark. The first exercise will ask you to read about appropriate use of information from sources and respond to a series of 10-15 questions in order to demonstrate your comprehension of the material. The second exercise asks you to complete a search in one of the several databases available to you through our library system (e.g., PubMed, PsycInfo) and describe the results of that search.

Essay Assignments
The first essay topic and instructions will be in Week 3 on VCU Blackboard. It is important that your first essay assignments should be approximately 1500 words; your second assignment 2500 words in length. Longer or shorter essays (10% more or less than the word limit) will be marked down 10% of the grade. Your