NDRI Director delivers keynote at major policy forum in China

Established in 2010, the Shanghai University-centre has become a leading institution in drug policy research in China.

The 2025 forum brought together an international group of academics and experts with Chinese counterparts to explore innovative strategies, emerging technologies and actionable measures to identify practical collaborative solutions to contemporary challenges in global drug governance.

Professor Griffiths’ presentation was entitled How can illicit drug surveillance systems keep pace with a more dynamic, digitally enabled, and globally connected drug market in which synthetic substances are playing an ever-greater role?

His invited address contributed, alongside presentations from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the International Narcotics Control Board, to setting the scene for discussions that focused on the growing policy challenges of responding to the increased global availability and use of synthetic opioids, stimulants and new psychoactive substances.

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