Law enforcement

Fixing a broken system

2015-02-11T08:54:48+00:00

Despite efforts by governments in Latin America, illicit drugs continue to provide one of the largest incomes for criminal organizations, enabling them to penetrate and corrupt political and social i ...

Does tougher enforcement make drugs more expensive?

2015-12-16T00:17:19+00:00

Although the fact of prohibition itself raises prices far above those likely to pertain in legal markets, there is little evidence that raising the risk of arrest, incarceration or seizure at differe ...

The Northern Triangle’s drugs-violence nexus

2012-11-28T13:38:48+00:00

Mexico has occupied the limelight when it comes to media attention focusing on drug-related violence in Latin America. However, it is actually Central America's Northern Triangle – consisting of Guat ...

The Alternative World Drug Report

2012-06-28T14:21:07+00:00

The Alternative World Drug Report, launched to coincide with publication of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s 2012 World Drug Report, exposes the failure of governments and the UN to assess the extr ...

The War on Drugs and HIV/AIDS

2012-06-28T13:39:12+00:00

The global war on drugs is driving the HIV pandemic among people who use drugs and their sexual partners. Throughout the world, research has consistently shown that repressive drug law enforcement pr ...

If Supply-Oriented Drug Policy is Broken, Can Harm Reduction Help Fix It?

2010-10-26T10:32:01+00:00

Critics of the international drug control regime contend that supply-oriented policy interventions are not just ineffective, but they also produce unintended adverse consequences. Research suggests t ...

Effect of Drug Law Enforcement on Drug-Related Violence

2011-04-01T10:57:52+00:00

This report consists of a scientific review that illustrates the relationship between drug law enforcement and drug-related violence. Violence is among the primary concerns of communities around the ...

Evaluation of Dutch Drug Policy

2012-10-08T13:48:12+00:00

The main purpose of this evaluation was to determine to what extent the principal goal of Dutch drug policy has been achieved, as stated in the 1995 Policy Document on Drugs (Drugsnota). This asserts ...

Towards a harm reduction approach to enforcement

2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Harm-reduction as a policy goal implies targeting directly drug-related harms rather than drug use itself. So far it has been largely a public health sector movement, focused on harms to users, most ...

Police, Harm Reduction, and HIV

2008-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

Injecting drug users (IDUs) account for the largest share of HIV infections in China, Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, and much of Southeast Asia. Harm reduction measures such as access to clean needle ...

Law enforcement and Australia’s 2001 heroin shortage

2012-09-19T15:16:09+00:00

Globally, illicit drug policy is largely based on two central policy objectives. The first is to reduce the demand for illegal drugs mainly through criminalisation, drug prevention and treatment, and ...

Displacement of Canada’s largest public illicit drug market in response to a police crackdown

2012-09-19T14:27:45+00:00

Law enforcement is often used in an effort to reduce the social, community and health-related harms of illicit drug use by injection drug users (IDUs). There are, however, few data on the benefits of ...