”Although advances have been made in prevention and treatment, drug abuse is still a death machine”, said Ms Ann-Sofie Hermansson, Chair of the Gothenburg City executive board at inauguration of The World Forum Aganist Drugs.

Drug policies are too important to be left to drug experts and to governments alone. It is a society-wide responsibility that requires society-wide engagement. said Mr Sven-Olov Carlsson, international president, World Federation Against Drugs at the opening of conferens in Gothenburg.