Domestic policy issues
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| Approaches
to Alcohol and Drugs in Scotland A Question of Architecture [June
2008] |
| A systemsmapping approach to how Scotland can reduce
the damage to its population through alcohol and drugs by half by 2025.
74-page PDF [Scotland's Futures Forum, UK] |
| |
| Approaches
to Alcohol and Drugs in Scotland: a Question of Architecture [June
2008] |
| Alcohol and drug use andmisuse is an immense and highly
complex challenge for policymakers in Scotland which can be addressed coherently.
7-page PDF. Executive summary [Scotland's Futures Forum, UK] |
| |
| Dimensions
of a manageable problem [June 2008] |
| A collection of expert views. 201-page PDF [Scotland's
Futures Forum, UK] [June 2008] |
| |
| Integrated
Care for Drug or Alcohol Users: Principles and Practice Update 2008 |
| Brings up to date 'Integrated care for Drug Users' first
published in 2002 [Scottish Government, UK] [June 2008] |
| |
| Scottish
Advisory Committee on Drug Misuse: Psychostimulant Project Group Report [June
2008] |
| Scottish Advisory Committee on Drug Misuse report identifying
the extent and impact of psychostimulant use in Scotland; making recommendations
on how to improve access, range and quality of services available to psychostimulant
users [Scottish Government, UK] |
| |
| Scottish
Advisory Committee on Drug Misuse - Essential Care Working Group Report [June
2008] |
| The Essential Care report concluded that recovery should
be the main focus of treatment and care for people with problem substance
us. The Government accepts all the recommendations in Essential Care and
the response outlines how this will be implemented through the new drugs
strategy and elsewhere [Scottish Government, UK] |
| |
| The
National Forum on Drug-related Deaths: Annual Report 2007 - The Scottish
Government's Response [June 2008] |
| The Government's response to the first Annual Report
from the National Forum on Drug-related Deaths outlines activity already
being carried out or planned in the Scottish drugs strategy and elsewhere
[Scottish Government, UK] |
| |
| Scottish
Advisory Committee on Drug Misuse: Integrated Care for Substance Misusers
Project Group - Final Report [June 2008] |
| This final report draws together all the strands of work
sponsored by the group, including the Essential Care rreport and an update
of Integrated Care for Drug Users and makes several recommendations for
implementing improvvements in service integration [Scottish Government,
UK] |
| |
| The
Road to Recovery: A New Approach to Tackling Scotland's Drug Problem [June
2008] |
| The Scottish Government's new national drugs strategy
that focuses on recovery but also looks at prevention, treatment and rehabilitation,
education, enforcement and protection of children [Scottish Government,
UK] |
| |
| National
corrections drug strategy [May 2008] |
| The ANCD would like to acknowledge the support of all
the adult, juvenile and community corrections Ministers & senior administrators
in Australia for their support and approval of this strategy. PDF [ANCD,
Australia] |
| |
| Chemical
Reactions [May 2008] |
| Fumigation: Spreading Coca and Threatening Colombia’s
Ecological and Cultural Diversity. 32-page PDF [WOLA] |
| |
| National
Drug Policy 2006-2011: Report on Consultation Feedback [April
2008] |
| It encompasses views expressed by stakeholders at the
thirteen meetings, hui and fono throughout the country, and in the ninety-five
written submissions on the Consultation Document [National Drug Policy,
New Zealand] |
| |
| Essential
Care [March 2008] |
| A Report on the Approach Required to Maximise Opportunity
for Recovery from Problem Substance Use in Scotland [Scottish Government,
UK] |
| |
| DPA
Report Lays Out National Strategy for Methamphetamine [March
2008] |
| A new Drug Policy Alliance report, "A
Four-Pillars Approach to Methamphetamine: Policies for Effective Drug Prevention,
Treatment, Policing and Harm Reduction," evaluates current state and
federal methamphetamine policies and recommends major reforms [DPA, USA] |
| |
| What
Works? Effective Public Health Responses to Drug Use [March
2008] |
| Through hard experience, we have learned much about
the nature of addiction and what works in prevention and treatment. 15-page
PDF [ONDCP, USA] |
| |
Reducing
Drug Use, Reducing Reoffending [March 2008]
|
| Consultations with key stakeholders to inform the UK Drug Policy Commission
report. 14-page PDF [UK Drug Policy Commission] |
| |
What
Research Tells Us About the Reasonableness of the Current Priorities
of National Drug Control [2008]
|
| Testimony presented before the House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee, Subcommittee on Domestic Policy. 17-page PDF [RAND, USA] |
| |
National
Drugs Strategy 2001 – 2008 [2008] |
| In developing a new strategy for the next seven years, the Review Group
recognised that while much remains to be done, there are encouraging signs
of progress in recent years which suggests that the current approach to
tackling the drug problem is proving to be effective. 144-page PDF [Department
of Tourism, Sport & Recreation, Ireland] |
| |
| 2008
National Drug Control Policy [2008] |
| By addressing the epidemiology of drug use and the economics
of drug markets, the National Drug Control Strategy has produced measurable
results for the American people. 79-page PDF [White House, USA] |
| |
| The
Swedish action plan on narcotic drugs 2006-2010 [February
2008] |
| The Swedish action plan on narcotic drugs states that
long-term preventive work to achieve a drug-free society must continue.
The work at local level is crucial to achieving successful results. At
the same time cooperation within the EU and internationally must increase,
as almost all illegal drugs consumed come from outside Sweden. Children,
young people and parents will be given special priority as target groups
in the coming years [Government Offices of Sweden] |
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|
'Drugs:
protecting families and communities' - 2008-2018 strategy [2008]
|
|
The drug strategy aims to restrict the supply of illegal drugs and reduce
the demand for them. It focuses on protecting families and strengthening
communities. 68-page PDF [Home Office, UK]
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|
'Drugs:
protecting families and communities' Action plan 2008-2011 [2008]
|
|
The drug strategy covers a ten-year period to 2018, but its delivery
is underpinned by a series of three-year action plans. 32-page PDF [Home
Office, UK]
|
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|
Rehabilitation
Required [2008]
|
|
Russia’s Human Rights Obligation to Provide Evidence-based Drug
Dependence Treatment [Human Rights Watch]
|
| |
Monograh
#15 Priority areas in illicit drug policy: Perspectives of policy makers [March
2007] |
| This project set out to identify the priority areas in illicit drugs
from the perspective of government policy makers.
The impetus for the work was the second stage of the Drug Policy Modelling
Program (DPMP), a research program aimed at improving the evidence-base
for Australian drug policy. The identification of priority areas can
inform the DPMP workplan for the next five years. Whilst the project
had this overt purpose, the findings are also useful for a number of
audiences other than the DPMP research team.
It will be of interest to funding bodies and committees that consider
illicit drug policy – to review the extent of concordance between
the priorities raised here by bureaucrats and those of their own funding
body or committee.
It is also rich fodder for those seeking a relevant research topic – it
will hopefully engage and excite a researcher or new student to pick
up a drug-related research area.
Finally, it provides a snapshot of the state of play as at 2006 – hopefully
in a few years time we will be able to tick off some of the areas,
assess progress on relevant research, or review the extent to which
priorities have changed over time.
|
| |
The Market
for Amphetamine-type Stimulants and Their Precursors in Oceania |
| This study examines the market for amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS)
in Oceania including Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, and
the involvement of criminal organisations in that market. 149-page PDF |
| |
|
National Drug Threat
Assessment 2008
|
|
89-page PDF [United States Department of Justice]
|
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|
The
winnable war on drugs: The impact of illicit drug use on families
|
|
The Family and Human Services Committee tabled its report on the inquiry
into the impact of illicit drug use on families entitled The winnable
war on drugs [Parliament of Australian]
|
| |
|
Cannabis
in Australia - Use, supply, harms and responses
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|
This monograph was written to provide an overview of the cannabis situation
in Australia at the present time, including patterns of use, supply,
harms and legislation. 475KB PDF [Drug Strategy Branch, Australian Government
Department of Health and Ageing, Australia]
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|
National
Drug Policy 2007-2012
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|
The key goal of the National Drug Policy is to minimise the social,
economic and health harms of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs [Ministry
of Health, New Zealand]
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|
National
Development Plan 2007-2013. Transforming Ireland: A Better Quality
of Life for All
|
|
Some €319 million will be available over the period of the Plan under
the National Drugs Strategy Sub-Programme to continue the fight against
the causes and consequences of the abuse of illegal drugs. 265-page
PDF [Government publicatioon, Ireland]
|
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|
Hepatitis
C Action Plan for Scotland - Phase I
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|
Hepatitis C Action Plan for the period September 2006 – August 2008
[Scottish Executive, UK]
|
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|
Director's
Report to the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse - February, 2007
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[NIDA, USA]
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National
Drug Control Strategy
|
|
FY 2007 Budget Summary [ONDCP, USA]
|
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|
National
Cannabis Strategy 2006-2009
|
|
The National Cannabis Strategy 2006-2009, has been developed within
the existing legislative framework and focuses on prevention, supply
reduction and treatment in a partnership framework PDF [Australian
Government]
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|
Drug Situation Report
- 2006
|
|
The Drug Situation Report 2006 provides a strategic overview of the
illicit drug trade in Canada. This year, the Report features two new
sections: Drug-generated Proceeds and Emerging Trends [Royal Canadian
Mounted Police]
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2007
National Report (2006 data) to the EMCDDA by the Reitox National Focal
Point
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|
The structure and content of this annual report are pre-determined by
the EMCDDA to facilitate comparison with similar reports produced by
the other European Focal Points.. 246-page PDF [UK Focal Point on Drugs
- Department of Health]
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| |
Monograph
# 13 Scoping the potential uses of systems thinking in developing policy
on illicit drugs [December 2005]
|
| This monograph (No. 13) summarises pilot work to scope the potential
uses of systems thinking for developing illicit drug policy. Systems approaches
have the potential to offer much to drug policy analysis through their
use of participatory methods, capacity to deal with multiple simultaneous
policy options, and appreciation of the complexity, interconnectedness
and dynamic feedback loops associated with policy decisions. The monograph
outlines six systems approaches used by the New Zealand team in exploring
illicit drug policy. The results of in-depth interviews with five experienced
policy makers and a demonstration project around a policy issue are described.
The potential utility of systems approaches in illicit drug policy are
demonstrated. |
| |
Monograph
#12 Popular culture and the prevention of illicit drug use: A pilot
study of popular music and the acceptability of drugs [December
2005]
|
| This Monograph (No. 12) describes the work of the team at ANU in exploring
the relationship between popular music and drug use. Popular culture has
significant potential to influence drug prevention efforts. Popular culture
represents and can create the norms and cultural milieu that can either
encourage or discourage drug use. To date, there has been little systematic
endeavour to study the relationships between popular culture and the milieu
it creates around drugs. This pilot study concentrated on one aspect of
popular culture – music. The team interviewed a small group of young
people and people from the music industry to begin to explore the complex
set of potential associations between music and drug use. |
| |
Monograph
# 4 Australian illicit drugs policy: Mapping structures and processes [December
2005]
|
| This Monograph (No. 04) focuses on the policy making process. To achieve
our overarching goal of improving illicit drugs policy activity in Australia,
we need to improve the evidence base used by policy makers and to facilitate
their use of it. Our limited understanding of how policies are made is
one of the barriers to providing good decision support resources and processes.
In this feasibility research, the ANU team trialed three approaches that
are standard in political science but little used in illicit drugs research:
1) structural and institutional analysis; 2) reputational influence mapping;
and 3) interviews with influential policy makers and researchers. |
| |
Monograph
# 2 Drug policy interventions: A comprehensive list and a review of
classification schemes [December 2005]
|
This Monograph (No. 02) provides a comprehensive list of drug policy
interventions. The
authors identify a total of 107 different drug policy interventions, whilst
also noting that some interventions may still be missing, and that others
may describe and document drug policy interventions with different terms.
With such an undifferentiated and long list of drug policy interventions,
the issue of the ways in which these interventions are then coded and classified
is also addressed. Ten different taxonomies (classification schemes) are
reviewed and conclusions drawn in relation to which taxonomies prove useful
in describing the array of drug policy interventions. |
| |
Monograph
# 1 What is Australia's "drug budget"? The policy mix of
illicit drug-related government spending in Australia [December
2005]
|
| This Monograph (No 01), the first in the series, outlines work by Tim
Moore to establish estimates of government spending for the year 2002/03.
This is not a social cost (or burden of illness) study but an examination
of how much governments (federal, state and territory) spend on responses
to illicit drugs. Two types of spending have been identified: spending
on direct policy actions (such as drug treatment, or policing drug offences)
and spending on the indirect or consequential aspects of illicit drug use
(such as ambulance attendance at overdose). The former are referred to
as ‘proactive’ spending; the latter as ‘reactive spending’.
Proactive spending, the direct actions of government in relation to drug
policy, are broken down by type of intervention: prevention, treatment,
harm reduction, law enforcement and interdiction. The total estimate for
proactive illicit drug spending is $1.3 billion for 2002/03. Law enforcement
represents 42% and interdiction 14%, together comprising the majority of
spending. Prevention represents 23% and treatment 17%. Sensitivity analyses
reveal large plausible ranges for some of the figures. |
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|
Assessing U.S.
Drug Problems and Policy
|
|
A Synthesis of the Evidence to Date
|
|
Research brief RB-9110-DPRC, 2005 RAND
|
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|
Beckley
Briefing Paper 14. 'The Effects of Decriminalisation of Drug Use in
Portugal'
|
|
In 2004, the Beckley Foundation reported on the legal changes that took
place in Portugal in 2001, which effectively decriminalised the possession
and use of all drugs, and diverted those arrested into education or treatment
programmes (Allen, Trace, & Klein, 2004). This report aims to provide
an updated overview of the effects of these changes. 10-page PDF [IDPC]
|
| |
| The
Economics of Effective AIDS Treatment |
| Evaluating Policy Options for Thailand [World Bank] |
| |
Inquiry
into the manufacture, importation and use of amphetamines and other
synthetic drugs (AOSD) in Australia
|
|
This report provides an overview of the production and consumption of
AOSD in Australia and discusses the extent to which organised crime is
involved in manufacture and distribution. It examines the National Drug
Strategy, reviews its main aims and effectiveness, and provides a brief
overview of the key policy and research bodies that oversee and have
input into the policy [Australian Policy Online]
|
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|
Drug Control
|
|
U.S. Assistance Has Helped Mexican Counternarcotics Efforts, but the
Flow of Illicit Drugs into the United States Remains High. 29-page PDF
[GAO, USA]
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|
U.S. Counternarcotics
Strategy for Afghanistan
|
|
Compiled by the Coordinator for Counternarcotics and Justice Reform
in Afghanistan, Ambassador Thomas A. Schweich, U.S. Department of State
|
| |
|
EMCDDA
publishes Country situation summaries for 28 countries
|
|
Country situation summaries provide a quick, structured overview of
the trends and characteristics of national drug problems [EMCDDA]
|
| |
|
London:
The highs and the lows 2
|
|
A 198-page PDF report from the [Greater London Alcohol and Drug Alliance,
Greater London Authority, UK]
|
| |
|
London:
The highs and the lows 2 - Executive summary
|
|
A 12-page PDF report from the [Greater London Alcohol and Drug Alliance,
Greater London Authority, UK]
|
| |
|
The
Intergovernmental Committee on Drugs National Drug Strategic Framework
2004-05
|
|
This is the sixth annual report on Australian, state and territory governments’ progress
under the [National Drug Strategy, Australia]
|
| |
|
Treating Doctors as
Drug Dealers: The DEA's War on Prescription Painkiller
|
|
The media began reporting that the popular narcotic pain medication
OxyContin was finding its way to the black market for illicit drugs,
resulting in an outbreak of related crime, overdoses, and deaths. Though
many of those reports proved to be exaggerated or unfounded, critics
in Congress and the Department of Justice scolded the U.S.Drug Enforcement
Administration for the alleged pervasiveness of OxyContin abuse. The
DEA responded with an aggressive plan to eradicate the illegal use or "diversion" of
OxyContin. The plan uses familiar law enforcemet methods from the War
on Drugs, such as aggressive undercover investigation, asset forfeiture,
and informers
|
|
Policy Analysis no. 545 CATO Institute 2005
|
| |
|
Coca or Death? Cocalero
Movements in Peru and Bolivia
|
|
Following Bolivia's 2002 parliamentary elections, the success of the
political party headed by cocalero leader Evo Morales, rekindled debate
regarding cocaleroorganisations in the Andes and their vindications.
Disinformation around these organisations has contributed to a rise in
terms like narcoguerrilleros and narcoterroristas, etc. being applied
to the various cocalero peasant movements
|
|
TNI Drugs & Conflict Debate Papers 10, April 2004 [Transnational
Institute]
|
| |
|
An
Analysis of UK Drug Policy (executive summary PDF 93KB)
|
|
Commissioned from international experts to inform UKDPC's work programme,
the report brings together evidence on the effectiveness of drug policies
throughout the UK [UKDPC]
|
| |
|
An
Analysis of UK Drug Policy (full report PDF 1.6MB)
|
|
Commissioned from international experts to inform UKDPC's work programme,
the report brings together evidence on the effectiveness of drug policies
throughout the UK [UKDPC]
|
| |
|
National
Drug Control Strategy
|
|
FY 2007 Budget Summary [ONDCP, USA]
|
| |
|
A
Fresh Approach to Drugs Policy
|
|
A 23-page PDF Policy Brief from the [Bow Group, UK]
|
| |
|
Update onDrug
Policy issues in Bolivia
|
|
WOLA and the Andean Information Network (AIN) provide a November 2006
update on counternarcotics policy in Bolivia. 8-page PDF [WOLA]
|
| |
|
Russia
International Narcotics Control Strategy Report
|
|
In 2004, the Government of Russia (GOR) intensified its counternarcotics
efforts. President Vladimir Putin and other leaders frequently highlight
the drug trade as a threat to Russia's national security in their public
remarks. The State Committee for the Control of Narcotic and Psychotropic
Substances (GKPN), which had been created in 2003, was reorganized and
renamed the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN)...
|
|
Published by the State Department's Bureau for International Narcotics
and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), March 2005
|
| |
|
Plan Colombia’s Drug
Eradication Program Misses the Mark
|
|
If reducing drug use at home and fighting terrorists abroad are vital
U.S. interests in the Americas, our current policy in Colombia is failing
|
|
[Americas Programme. Adam Isacson and John Myers. July 18, 2005]
|
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|
Evaluating
U.S. Policy in Colombia
|
|
In recent years, U.S. interests and goals in Colombia have covered a
broad range of areas: counter-narcotics; counterinsurgency and counterterrorism;
peace and regional stability; democracy, human rights, and the rule of
law; and socio-economic development and humanitarian needs. What is less
clear is whether current U.S. policies further these objectives. A full
evaluation must take into account both the intended and unintended consequences
of our policies
|
|
Virginia M. Bouvier.
A Policy Report from the IRC Americas Program.May 11, 2005.
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|
War and Drugs
in Colombia
|
|
Drugs finance the left-wing insurgent Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC) and the far-right United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia
(AUC) to a large degree, and thus are an integral part of Colombia's
conflict. But while the state must confront drug trafficking forcefully,
President Alvaro Uribe's claim that the conflict pits a democracy against
merely "narco-terrorists" who must be met by all-out war does
not do justice to the complexity of the decades-old struggle. Fighting
drugs and drug trafficking is a necessary but not sufficient condition
for moving Colombia toward peace. The view that anti-drug and anti-insurgency
policies are indistinguishable reduces the chances either will succeed
and hinders the search for a sustainable peace
|
|
International Crisis Group. Latin American Report N°11 27 January 2005
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|
U.S. Nonmilitary Assistance
to Colombia Is Beginning to Show Intended Results, but Programs Are
Not Readily Sustainable
|
|
Despite the progress made by the three nonmilitary assistance programs,
Colombia and the United States continue to face long-standing management
and financial challenges.
|
|
[U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO). July 2004]
|
| |
|
International
Narcotics and Law Enforcement Budget Justification
|
|
Fiscal Year 2004
|
|
[US Department of State]
|
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|
The War on Drugs,
HIV/AIDS, and Violations of Human Rights
|
|
A violent state-sponsored “war on drugs” is jeopardizing Thailand's
long struggle to become one of Southeast Asia's leading rights-respecting
democracies. Officially launched in February 2003, the government crackdown
has resulted in the unexplained killing of more than 2,000 persons, the
arbitrary arrest or blacklisting of several thousand more, and the endorsement
of extreme violence by government officials at the highest levels
|
|
Human Rights Watch
HRW Index No.: C1608 July 8, 2004
|
| |
How the Drug War in
Afghanistan Undermines America’s War on Terror
|
|
There is a growing tension between two U.S. objectives in Afghanistan.
The most important objective is—or at least should be—the eradication
of the remaining Al Qaeda and Taliban forces in that country. But the
United States and its coalition partners are now also emphasizing the
eradication of Afghanistan’s drug trade. These antidrug efforts may fatally
undermine the far more important anti-terrorism campaign
|
|
Ted Galen Carpenter, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies
at the Cato Institute
CATO Institute November 10, 2004 Foreign Policy Briefing no. 84
|
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|
Pointless
War Drugs and Violence in Brazil
|
|
In this issue of Drugs & Conflict, the background to the drugs-related
violence in the North-East marijuana cultivation area, as well as in
the favelas in Rio, is described. The new drug law that is being evaluated
in Congress is also reviewed. Although the new law is a step forward
for making a clear distinction between a trafficker and a user, the question
remains whether that will effectively address the problem give the limited
scope of the new law
|
|
TNI Drugs & Conflict Debate Paper 11, November 2004 [Transnational
Institute]
|
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|
Drugs and Democracy
in Latin America: The Impact of U.S. Policy
|
|
The United States has been fighting the war on drugs for decades, across
the nation and throughout the hemisphere. Police officers, prosecutors,
doctors, social workers, soldiers, counselors and countless others have
invested their energy and expertise—and have even risked their lives—to
combat drug trafficking and drug abuse. Their efforts are impressive
and appreciated. Twenty-five years and 25 billion dollars later, however,
we are no closer to solving the problem—that is, to reducing drug abuse
and availability in the United States. In fact, we seem to be farther
away than ever
|
|
Coletta A. Youngers and Eileen Rosin, Editors
A WOLA special report 2004
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|
AFP
Drug Harm Index
|
|
The AFP Drug Harm Index was developed to provide a single measure that
encapsulates the potential value to the Australian community of AFP drug
seizures. The index represents the dollar value of harm that would have
ensued had the seized drugs reached the community. In the five years
from 1998-99 to 2002-2003, the AFP and its partners saved the Australian
community approximately $3.1 billion in harm through its disruption of
illicit drug importations. Because the Harm Index is based on the benefits
associated with an estimated reduction in consumption, it can be generalised
to measuring the benefits of other drug interventions
|
|
Australian Federal Police
Research Note 5 2004. ISSN 1447-9621
|
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|
Is the Addiction Concept Useful
for Drug Policy?
|
|
The development of behavioral economics, with its prospect of integrating
insights from economics and psychology, is surely one of the most exciting
intellectual developments in the social and behavioral sciences in the
past 20 years. And if any domain could benefit from this development,
it would seem to be the domain of psychoactive drug use, where choices
are so often pathological. Thus, one can imagine my surprise and dismay
when I was asked to prepare an essay on new policy insights that might
follow from the leading behavioral economic theories of addiction1, and
I discovered that there weren’t any. Or at least, hardly any
|
|
Robert J. MacCoun
Center for the Study of Law and Society Jurisprudence and Social Policy
Program. JSP/Center for the Study of Law and Society Faculty Working
Papers. Paper 8 January 1, 2003
|
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|
Race & the
War on Drugs Position Paper
|
|
American Civil Liberties Union October 17, 2003
|
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|
Ravaging the Vulnerable:
Abuses Against Persons at High Risk of HIV Infection in Bangladesh
|
|
Bangladesh is stoking an emerging AIDS epidemic with violent police
abuse of sex workers, injection drug users and men who have sex with
men
|
|
Human Rights Watch
HRW Index No.: C1506 August 20, 2003
|
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Abusing the User: Police Misconduct,
Harm Reduction and HIV/AIDS in Vancouver
|
|
An anti-drug crackdown by the Vancouver Police Department has driven
injection drug users away from life-saving HIV prevention services, raising
fears of a new wave of HIV transmission in the city that is already home
to the worst AIDS crisis in the developed world
|
|
Human Rights Watch
HRW Index No.: 1502B May 7, 2003
|
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|
Collateral
Consequences of the War on Drugs
|
|
This 4 pp. brochure outlines some of the collateral consequences of
U.S. drug policy: the Higher Education Act, Public Housing, Felony Disenfranchisement,
and the Welfare Reform Act
|
|
American Civil Liberties Union 01/27/2003
|
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The Dynamic Character
of Drug Problems
|
|
This paper makes three points. (1) Drug-related measures, such as the
number of users, have changed rapidly over time, suggesting that they
are not merely symptoms of underlying trends in the economy, demographics,
or other aggregates that change more slowly. (2) Drug markets are subject
to a wide range of feedback effects that can induce non-linearity into
dynamic behavior. (3) There are at least five classes of epidemic models
that reflect such non-linear dynamic behavior. Some of those classes
tend to be optimistic about the ability of drug control interventions
to reduce use; others are pessimistic. It is hoped that this discussion
and, in particular, the typology, can inform and elevate the debate about
drug policy, but it is unlikely to resolve that debate because of the
inability to demonstrate empirically which class(es) are most accurate
|
|
Jonathan P. Caulkins
Carnegie Mellon, Heinz School 2002-13, Jan 2002
|
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|
A
25-Year Quagmire
|
|
The War on Drugs and Its Impact on American Society. 33-page PDF [The
Sentencing Project, USA]
|
| |
|
UK
Operations in Afghanistan
|
|
Thirteenth Report. 182-page PDF [Defence Select Committee, Parliament,
UK]
|
| |
|
Drug
classification: making a hash of it?
|
|
The Government publishes its reply to each of the Committee's findings
and concludes that the classification system discharges its function
fully and effectively and has stood the test of time. 25-page PDF [Home
Office, UK]
|
| |
|
The Evidence
Base for the Classification of Drugs
|
|
This report, prepared by the RAND Corporation for the House of Commons
Select Committee on Science and Technology in the United Kingdom, presents
the results of four case studies examining the evidence base for the
classification of illegal drugs in the context of the 1971 Misuse of
Drugs Act [RAND, USA]
|
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National
Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XI: Teens and Parents
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One-third of teens and nearly half of 17-year olds attend house parties
where parents are present and teens are drinking, smoking marijuana or
using cocaine, Ecstasy or prescription drugs. 73-page PDF [CASA, USA]
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Addicted to
Failure NGO
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We believe that U.S. drug policy in Latin America has been ineffective
at achieving its own goals and has generated much collateral damage [WOLA,
USA]
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Losing Ground - Drug Control
and War in Afghanistan
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Drugs and Conflict Debate papers No. 15 [TNI]
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Drug
classification: making a hash of it?
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179-page PDF [House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, UK]
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Preventing
harm from psychoactive substance use
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Recommendations fall under five key prevention priorities: reducing
risk factors and increasing protective factors across the life course,
community centred prevention, addressing impacts on communities, legislative
and public policy change and regulated markets. 98-page PDF [City of
Vancouver Drug Policy Program, Canada]
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5 INL Regional and Country
Programs
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The Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL)
works with law enforcement, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, border
security officials, financial intelligence units, anticorruption units,
narcotics control units, economic development organizations, non-governmental
organizations, and other counterparts to reinforce partner governments'
efforts to promote the rule of law and successfully meet the demands
of the 21st Century. INL's programs are tailored to bolster capacities
of partner countries around the globe through multilateral, regional,
and country-specific programs
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[US Department of State]
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The Demand for
Intoxicating Commodities: Implications for the "War on Drugs"
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The best that can be said about the war on drugs (from the 0pint of
view of those who run and support it) is that while it will fail, its
failure may not be evident. For quite unrelated reasons, demand within
the United States for some drugs, especially cocaine and cocaine derivatives,
seems to be declining (Bachman et al., 1988, 1990). Since that de cline
coincides with rhetoric about the Drug War, apologists for that war will
claim credit for the change, suggesting to us that the war Is being won.
In this article, we aim to show why such claims are absurd and concentrate
Instead upon the most neglected aspect of illicit psychotropic drug use
- the demand for drugs.
Pat O'Malley and Stephen Mugford
PAT O'Malley is the director of the National Center for Socio-Legal
Studies. La Trobe University, Bundorra Victoria, Australia 3083. STEPHEN
MUGFORD Is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology. Faculty
of Arts. Australian National University, Oho Box 4, Canberra ACT 2601,
Australia 2003
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Cross Purposes Alternative
Development and Conflict in Colombia
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One of the greatest challenges in Colombia today is how to meet alternative
development objectives in the midst of war. "Alternative development" refers
in this context to the creation of alternative livelihoods for illicit
crop farmers
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Drugs & Conflict Debate Paper 7, June 2003 [Transnational Institute]
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Drugs and Conflict in Burma
(Myanmar) Dilemmas for Policy Responses
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Burma is on the brink of yet another humanitarian crisis. In the Kokang
region, an opium ban was enforced last year, and by mid-2005 no more
poppy growing will be allowed in the Wa region. Banning opium from these
regions in Shan State adds another chapter to the long and dramatic history
of drugs, conflict and human suffering in the country
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Drugs & Conflict Debate Paper 9, December 2003 [Transnational Institute]
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Model of Chaotic
Drug Markets and Their Control
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Drug markets are often described informally as being chaotic, and there
is a tendency to believe that control efforts can make things worse,
not better, at least in some circumstances. This paper explores the idea
that such statements might be literally true in a mathematical sense
by considering a discrete-time model of populations of drug users and
drug sellers for which initiation into either population is a function
of relative numbers of both populations
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Doris A. Behrens, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gustav Feichtinger
Carnegie Mellon, Heinz School 2002-8, Jul 2002
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ANCD
research paper 5—Drug policy: the Australian approach
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84 pages Australian National Council on Drugs
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The
National HIV/AIDS Strategy 1999-2000 to 2003-2004: Changes and Challenges
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Published by Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
June 2000 PDF available on this page
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Counterterror
and Counterdrug policies: Comparisons and Contrasts
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The problem of preventing repetitions of the September 11th incidents
has begun to be called "the war on terror." This suggests analogies
to the "war on drugs," and there have been attempts to use
these comparisons to draw conclusions about the appropriate shape and
likely success of the anti-terrorism campaigns (e.g., Massing, 2001).
This essay identifies similarities and differences between the two campaigns
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Jonathan P. Caulkins, Mark A. R. Kleiman, Peter Reuter
Carnegie Mellon, Heinz School 2002-15, Mar 2002
Jeff Desimone
Economic Inquiry Vol. 39, No. 4, October 2001, 627-643
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How Goes the “War
on Drugs
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An Assessment of U.S. Drug Problems and Policy [RAND, USA]
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Europe and Plan Colombia
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This first issue is devoted to the controversies that have arisen around
Plan Colombia. It is released at this particular moment to inform discussions
on supporting the peace process in Colombia around the third round of
the international donor conference in Brussels
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Drugs & Conflict Debate Paper 1, April 2001 [Transnational Institute]
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Interdiction
and Incarceration Still Top Remedies
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The nation's drug war is viewed as a failure by most Americans, and
there is scant hope it will ever succeed. Nearly three-quarters of Americans
say we are losing the drug war, and just as many say that insatiable
demand will perpetuate the nation's drug habit. Yet this deep sense of
futility has not generated more momentum for alternative anti-drug strategies,
like establishing more treatment programs for drug users or decriminalizing
the use of some drugs
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Pew Research Center March 21, 2001
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Interdiction
and Incarceration Still Top Remedies
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he nation's drug war is viewed as a failure by most Americans, and there
is scant hope it will ever succeed. Nearly three-quarters of Americans
say we are losing the drug war, and just as many say that insatiable
demand will perpetuate the nation's drug habit. Yet this deep sense of
futility has not generated more momentum for alternative anti-drug strategies,
like establishing more treatment programs for drug users or decriminalizing
the use of some drugs
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Pew Research Center 2001
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Defending
An Effective Control on National and International Drug Trade : Challenging
the International Drug Conventions
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Is the American drug policy the only possible one that would comply
with international drug law ? The point here, is not to describe in details
what is the American drug policy. It is enough to state that it is a
repressive policy, and even an increasing repressive policy. This simple
statement is in opposition with another way of dealing with the use of
drugs: the “legalization policy”. The question is then: is it possible
to legalize drugs within the frame of the current International Conventions
on Drugs ?
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ChristopheMarchand, Member of the Brussels’s Bar 2000
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Drugs:
dilemmas, choices and the law
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Use of illegal drugs is increasingly common, yet there has been little
serious discussion of the underlying causes, or whether existing prevention
policies are effective. This summary brings together findings from two
inquiries that received support from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and
which were designed to consider how UK drugs policy should move forward
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation November 2000 - Ref N70
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DRUGS
AND THE LAW: Report into the Independent Inquiry into the Misuse of
Drugs Act 1971
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It is nearly 30 years since the main legislation controlling the misuse
of drugs in the United Kingdom was enacted. Our task has been to consider
the changes which have taken place in our society in that time and to
assess whether the law as it currently stands needs to be revised in
order to make it both more effective and more responsive to those changes.
It has also been our duty to examine the implications of our proposals.
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Published by The Police Foundation March 2000, ISBN 0-947692-47-9
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The American
Drug War: Anatomy of a Futile and Costly Police Action
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Our story has two parts. One is about the futility of suppressing the
fourth and fifth drives. Public policies that try to frustrate strong
motives of consumers and motives of suppliers are frequently overwhelmed
like a sand castle by the incoming tide. The other is about why agents
who allegedly represent the public’s interests insist on building these
doomed sand castles
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Bruce L. Benson, David W. Rasmussen
The Independent Institute July 10, 2000
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Punishment and Prejudice:
Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs. USA
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Since the mid 1980s, the United States has undertaken aggressive law
enforcement strategies and criminal justice policies aimed at curtailing
drug abuse. The costs and benefits of this national war on drugs are
fiercely debated. What is not debatable, however, is its impact on black
Americans. Ostensibly color blind, the war on drugs has been waged disproportionately
against black Americans
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Human Right Watch 2000 Vol. 12, No. 2 (G)
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Predatory Public
Finance and the Origins of the War on Drugs 1984 –1989
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Escalation of the war on drugs, when measured by drug arrests relative
to Index I arrests, apparently ended in 1989. In the United States the
drug arrest/Index I arrest ratio fell from 0.46 in 1989 to a 1990 figure
of 0.36, a decline of 24 percent. This decline in drug enforcement is
not inconsistent with bureaucratic incentives, however, including those
created by asset forfeiture legislation. Police may simply be arresting “smarter,” for
example, concentrating on drug offenders with some potential yield via
forfeiture
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Bruce L. Benson, David W. Rasmussen
The Independent Institute 1996
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Keeping Score:
The Frailties of the Federal Drug Budget
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Total federal government expenditures for antidrug activities have become
a centerpiece in the national debate on drug policy ... Given the prominent
role that federal budget figures have come to play in the policy debate,
it is noteworthy that few have paid any attention to their origins.
Patrick Murphy, issue paper, IP-138, 1994 RAND
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Declaring an Armistice
in the International Drug War
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There is increasing speculation that the Clinton administration may
be willing to reconsider some components of Washington's sacrosanct war
on drugs. Prominent drug warriors are certainly worried about that possibility.
Former drug czar William Bennett has already condemned the president
for failing to take the crusade against illicit drugs seriously. New
York Times columnist A. M. Rosenthal goes even further, warning that "the
concept of a war against drugs is in danger of being dismantled," resulting
in "creeping legalization."
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Ted Galen Carpenter
Foreign Policy Briefing no. 26 CATO Institute 1993
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