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Unintended consequences of policy decisions: Arium has published a paper on the unintended consequences of policy decisions: The Best Laid Plans? Avoiding unintended consequences in public policymaking, with a foreword by the UK Drug Policy Commission. Download the paper here.
Drug policy modelling: Robin Wilkinson is delivering a paper on Arium's work with the UKDPC at the Fifth Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy held on 23 to 24 May 2011 in Utrecht and organised by the Trimbos Institute. The topic is: Risk modelling - a potentially useful tool for analysing and developing drug policy?
Demos and UKDPC Drug policy paper: On Monday 16 May 2011, Demos and UKDPC launched, to a warm response, a paper on: Taking Drugs Seriously A demos and UK drug policy commission report on legal highs. Robin Wilkinson was on the project Advisory Group.
CasCat™ Second Stage Development Complete: The second stage of development of our Casualty Cat model with Guy Carpenter, now called CasCat™, has been completed. Guy Carpenter won an annual award by Reactions magazine in connection with the model in July. Click here for the Reactions Award press release. Guy Carpenter also won a Review Re/insurance Initiative of the Year award for the model in September. Click here for the Review Award press release.