Controlling and policing substance use(rs).
Controlling drug use--a dynamic, global, politicalized process--is reviewed in terms of selected types of drugs, "natural levels" of drug demand and use, drug markets and the drug market environment, types of traffickers, illicit drug trade profits, approaches to drug control ("War on Drugs", "Zero Tolerance" programs and policies, "normalizing" and legalizing selected drugs), including UN's then relatively recent "Balanced Approach" and facets of drug law enforcement (drug prices and purity levels and values of drug seizures), including various rarely noted benefits to intervention programs and control agents. Unresolved issues and needed "tools" are noted while considering the implications of the first UN's World Drug Report data.
Supply Reduction and Law Enforcement Section, United Nations International Drug Control Programme, Vienna, Austria. TW225@compuserve.com
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D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D016527:Drug Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004335:Drug and Narcotic Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D013287:Illicit Drugs / Q000191:economics / Q000600:supply & distribution; D016495:Police; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000191:economics / Q000600:supply & distribution; D011640:Public Policy; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014480:United Nations
D013287:Illicit Drugs; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs