13–18 September 1981—The International Congress on Drugs and Alcohol, to be held at Jerusalem, Israel. Topics on the agenda include (a) the drug user: individual and systematic issues; (b) drugs, medicines and socially accepted substances; (c) chemical coping and chemical ecstasy: challenge to religion, ethics and society; (d) drug use/misuse: theories, facts and unresolved issues; (e) drug use/misuse intervention: treatment, prevention and education; (f) chemical coping: individual, social, economic and political issues; (g) drug use/misuse research: methodologies, models and strategies; (h) ideological considerations; (i) social pharmacology; (j) the internal and external environment of drug use/misuse; (k) substance use; (1) leisure and chemical coping; (m) chemical control and human and societal functioning; (n) cultural aspects of chemical coping, literature, art, mass media.