Bibliography: Production and Supply

Letter to the Home Office setting out the ACMD’s interim advice in relation to diversion and illicit supply of medicines (ACMD)

Licence and registration application information for companies that deal in precursor chemicals (Home Office)

This report identifies a broad range of factors that drive opium poppy cultivation in southern Afghanistan, the locus of opium production in that country, and assesses the positive and negative effects of programs designed to promote rural development, eradicate opium poppies, or otherwise create incentives for farmers to reduce the cultivation of opium poppies (RAND)

In mid-May 2015, Ross, Dave and I left the relatively comfortable climate of Bogotá and headed to the humidity of South East Colombia and the Department of Guaviare to conduct fieldwork … (Global Drug Policy Observatory)

New UNODC report

Estimates from a survey of drug users

Part of the Perspectives on Drugs (PODs) series, launched as part of the European Drug Report package, these designed-for-the-web interactive analyses provide deeper insights into a selection of important issues (EMCDDA)

Part of the Perspectives on Drugs (PODs) series, launched as part of the European Drug Report package, these designed-for-the-web interactive analyses provide deeper insights into a selection of important issues (EMCDDA)

The demand for synthetic drugs in East and South-East Asia and Oceania continues to rise, while rapid economic integration is creating new opportunities for transnational criminal groups to expand the illicit drug trade, warned UNODC in a new report recently released under the Global Synthetics Monitoring: Analyses, Reporting and Trends (SMART) Programme (UNODC)

This policy brief considers the way in which the term has evolved since the early 1980s and the main official and academic attempts at defining it (Global Drug Policy Observator

The analysis of drug flow networks can reveal important structural features of trafficking networks that can be useful for the allocation of scarce drug control resources (Drug Policy)

This bulletin is the fourth in a series by the Drug Trends Unit that provides analysis of trends over time in the availability and type of substances sold via the internet to Australia. The current bulletin reports for the time period July 2014 to December 2014 (NDARC)

Supply and demand: drug markets in transition (University of Kent)

Provides a concise understanding of the nature of organised criminal involvement in the Australian methylamphetamine market Australian Crime Commission

One glance at the size and scope of the drug business suggests it may always be unwinnable (Business Insider)

The number of police incidents involving ‘legal highs’ has almost trebled across England in a year )Centre for Social Justice)

New review studies the effectiveness of overdose antidote, naloxone – trendspotter study explores online supply of drugs (EMCDDA)

East African states are being undermined by heroin smuggling (The Economist)