This study focuses on a vital aspect of illicit drug trafficking: the huge profits that flow from this trade into the hands of criminals and their networks. South-Eastern Europe, through the so-called Balkan route, is a key pathway for the delivery of opiates from Afghanistan into Western and Central Europe (UNODC)
Bibliography: Production and Supply
Drugs and Illicit Practices
Assessing their impact on development and governance (Christian Aid)
Minimum quality standards for drug demand reduction interventions in the EU
This innovative initiative lists 16 standards that represent a minimum benchmark of quality for interventions in: drug use prevention, risk and harm reduction, treatment, social integration and rehabilitation (EMCDDA)
Profit from drugs inside prisons feeding crime outside, police leaders warned
Police forces have been told to face up to the “fall-out” from Britain’s burgeoning prison population as the Government sets out a bold new-for-old building programme (Police Professional)
UNODC, OSCE develop strategies to reduce drug demand and drug supply to youth
UNODC, through its Deputy Executive Director, addressed a high-level conference aimed at enhancing the mechanisms to stem the increasing spread of illicit drugs amongst young people, organized under the Serbian Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
Drugs policy metrics under review
The UNGASS in April 2016 will offer a forum to systematise a process of developing sophisticated indicators that are in tune with developments taking place within some member states (Jane’s)
Precursor chemical import and export authorisation wallchart
This chart shows the regulation of precursor chemicals in the UK (Home Office)
ACMD interim advice: diversion and illicit supply of medicines
Letter to the Home Office setting out the ACMD’s interim advice in relation to diversion and illicit supply of medicines (ACMD)
Precursor chemical licensing
Licence and registration application information for companies that deal in precursor chemicals (Home Office)
Reducing the Cultivation of Opium Poppies in Southern Afghanistan
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)
View from the Ground: Infrastructure and Coca in Guaviare, Colombia
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)
World Drug Report 2015
UNODC
Afghan heroin now also being trafficked through Africa
New UNODC report
The potential effects of policy changes on drug markets in the UK and Australia
Estimates from a survey of drug users
Opioid trafficking routes from Asia to Europe
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)
Opioid trafficking routes from Asia to Europe
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)
Expanding synthetic drugs market inhibiting development in East and South-East Asia and Oceania
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)
Demystifying ‘Narcoterrorism’
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
Transnational Cocaine and Heroin Flow Networks in Western Europe: A Comparison
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)
Drugs and The Internet
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)
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