According to Caracol Radio, Colombian police have arrested 34 people, including five soldiers and two police officers who allegedly smuggled...
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National survey reveals increases in substance use in U.S. from 2008 to 2009
The use of illicit drugs among Americans increased between 2008 and 2009 according to a national survey conducted by the...
Crime in the United States 2009
The U.S. Department of Justice/FBI has published information about crime in the United States 2009.
Former DEA Administrators and organisations against California Proposition 19
On Monday, September 13, former Administrators from the Drug Enforcement Administration, accompanied by over a dozen law enforcement, prevention, treatment...
Several newspapers in California negative to legalisation of marijuana
Several newspapers in California express negative views on the legalisation of marijuana. Riverside-Press Enterprise North County Times Contra Costa Times...
Harmful psychiatric effects of cannabis
According to researchers at the University of Maastricht (the Netherlands) cannabis use significantly increases the risk for incident psychotic symptoms...
Bipolar disorder does not increase risk of violent crime
A new study from Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet suggests that bipolar disorder – or manic-depressive disorder – does not increase the...
Secretary-General introduces new Executive Director of UNODC
At a media encounter at the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon introduced Yury Fedotov,...
Antonio Maria Costa: “Drug control is not the task of governments alone: it is a society-wide responsibility”
In an article, Legalise drugs and a worldwide epidemic of addiction will follow, in The Guardian today the former Executive...
Comment from WFAD, about the appointment of Ambassador Yuri Viktorovich Fedotov, as Executive Director of UNODC
Stockholm, September 1, 2010 Comment from World Fedration Against Drugs, WFAD, about the appointment of Ambassador Yuri Viktorovich Fedotov, as...