Sponsored by the Drug Policy Alliance (formerly an OSI program known as the Lindesmith Center), this conference aimed to provide a leading forum for those who believe the "war on drugs" is doing more harm than good. The conference offered a crash course in cutting-edge topics in drug policy reform, including:

• Building a Movement
• Cannabis
• Civil Liberties
• Collateral Consequences
• Criminal Justice
• Drug Courts
• Drug Treatment
• Family Values/Valuing Families
• Federal and State-Based Reform
• GLBT People and the Drug War
• Harm Reduction
• Hepatitis C
• HIV/AIDS
• International Issues
• Legal Drugs
• Methadone, Buprenorphine and Heroin
• Methamphetamine
• Physicians and Prescribing
• Politics of Science
• Proposition 36
• Psychedelics
• Racial Injustice
• Surveillance and Privacy
• Teens and Drugs

For more information, please visit the Drug Policy Alliance at http://www.drugpolicy.org/events/dpa2005/.