This report publishes the data of the 1997 national study on drug use among the population of 12 years and older in the Netherlands. The figures are based on self-reported data. The survey was designed by the CEDRO in co-opertion with Statistic Netherlands (CBS). It outlines average drug use.

Licit and Illicit Drug Use in the Netherlands, 1997

Politics & Social Sciences

Abraham, Manja D.

Van Til, Roelf-Jan

de Winter, Marielle A.L.

Cohen, Peter D

Social Sciences

Mets & Schilt

For the first time in the history of Dutch National Drug Policy,  we have access to reliable and detailed national drug use  data. This report publishes the data of a 1997 national study on drug use among the population of 12 years and older in the Netherlands. The figures are based on self-reported data. Almost 22,000 respondents were questioned face-to-face about lifestyle and the use of licit and illicit drugs. Drugs included in the study include tobacco, cocaine, amphetamine, ecstasy, hallucinogens, mushrooms, opiates such as heroin and codeine, and doping. The survey was designed by CEDRO in cooperation with Statistic Netherlands (CBS), and funded by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS). The report gives an outline of "average" drug use prevalence in the Netherlands as a whole and drug use prevalence in the country's four large cities and the five population density strata separately. The authors are researchers at the Centre for Drug Research of the University of Amsterdamn in The Netherlands.

Licit and Illicit Drug Use in the Netherlands, 2001

Kaal, Hendrien L.

Trinty is a milestone in the work of Magnum photographer Carl De Keyzer. It is a triptych on the theme of he omnipresence of power and violence. The title itself refers not only to the traditional image of the Supreme Power in classical painting, but also, for example, to the code name of the ominous project with which Oppenheimer lead a team of atomic physicists to produce the first atom bomb. Based on three probing themes, De Keyzer grabs contemporary power, its images: Tableaux d' Histoire, Tableaux de Guerre; Tableaux Politiques. The first tableaux cast a surprising light on the theatrical that has characterized power since time immemorial and without which it could not exist. The second perspective shows us violence as a timeless, placeless phenomenon. War appears in an aesthetic of the sublime, although subdued and painful, as glorification, heroism and justitication are absent. The third part takes us behind the scenes of political power, which should, when all is said and done, actually be the power of the people; the facade, the lobbying, the backrooms, the haggling.

Trinity

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

From Belgium to Morocco, by way of India and Egypt, for more than thirty-five years Harry Gruyaert (Magnum Photos) has been recording the subtle chromatic vibrations of the edges of the orient and the occident. This 'manifesto' reveals the profoundly singular character of this work, emphasising its underlying poeticism: the flash of the fleeting and of chance. The sensual elegance of his images is intensified by faultless composition. Light floods the space beneath a highly-structured pictorial construction. Photography has become his extraordinary way of creating the conditions for a wonder.

Edges

The Kurds of Iraq have been making headlines for many decades: in the eighties and early nineties mostly as victims of brutal suppression, in the mid-nineties as victims of each other's heavy in-fighting, and since then mainly through their success in achieving a high degree of independence and prosperity within Iraq. The Kurds of Iraq os a book about the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, governed by the highly autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government. The IKR has a 200,000 strong army, its own borders and border patrols, and even its very own stamps. In stark contrast with its volatile past, the IKR, often referred to as 'The Other Iraq', enjoys a high degree of safety an a booming economy. While most books about the Kurds of Iraq focus solely on military, political and humanitarian issues, this book provides unique insights into their farming methods, the position of women, journalism, telecommunications, life in the villages, leisure and, not least, the magnificent archaeological treasures to be found there.

The Kurds of Iraq

Michiel Hegener

Individual Artists