Professor emeritus Les Iversen who has been interim chair of the ACMD (Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs) since...
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Gains by Taliban open door to opium revival
According to The Wall Street Journal today, citing a senior United Nations official, a growing insurgency innorthern Afghanistan could lead...
Links between mental illness, violence and drugs
A new broadcast featuring Dr Seena Fazel, who is a clinical senior lecturer in forensic psychiatry at the University of...
U.S. drug czar visits Colombia
According to El Espectador today, U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske visits Colombia on Jan. 17-20. During his stay in Colombia...
Guide to strengthen border examination of documents
Fraudulent identity and security documents are the grease that eases cross-border crime of all types: smuggling of migrants, trafficking in...
Exposure to anti-drug messages drops as drug use goes up
The University of Michigan’s Monitoring the Future study (MTF) – the largest survey on teen drug abuse tracking over 46,000...
Organised crime scumbags sell children
Europol press release Children trafficked and exploited inside Europe by criminal gangs Children forced into criminal activities such as organised...
UNICEF and UNODC partner to promote justice for children
More than one million children worldwide are deprived of their liberty by law enforcement officials when under arrest or awaiting...
Hungary needs a new drug strategy
Press communiqué of the Social State Secretariat of the Hungarian Human Resources Development Ministry on elaboration of a new drug...
EUROPOL releases abridged iOCTA report – Internet Facilitated Organised Crime
Organised criminals hijack web servers to distribute child abuse material The Italian Postal and Communications Police, supported by Europol, have...