Prices on illicit drug markets are an important indicator of the interaction between supply and demand.

UNDCP supported a drug abuse assessment study that had established the Alcohol and Drug Addiction Research and Treatment Center (AMATEM) as the national focal point for activities involving the treatment and rehabilitation of drug abusers.

of drug abuse by drug type

N. Dorn and K. Murji, Drug Prevention A Review of the English Language Literature, ISDD Monograph, No. 5 (London, Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence, 1992).

24. A UNDCP World Health Organization (WHO) study Multi City Drug Injecting and HIV Study 1994, on drug injecting behaviour and HIV infection in 13 cities, showed that injecting drug users do change their behaviour in response to information about HIV acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and with access to the means for behaviour change.

The first study has been completed and the results were published in the World Drug Report 2005.

Experts should be invited to study possible prophylactic measures that would not promote or facilitate drug abuse.

I've just been given a drug... drug of some sort.

Drug addiction

Drug issues

A. Prevalence of drug abuse by drug type 2 17 4

Demand reduction is now considered to be as important a deterrent to drug abuse as reducing illicit drug crop cultivation and illicit drug manufacture, or combating illicit drug trafficking.

The Ministerial Committee on Drug Abuse and Drug Control was the principal body for coordinating national and international anti drug activities.

And everyone in the lab, especially following the interaction with these patients, feels quite compelled to deliver a drug substance based on this molecule.

International drug control

International drug control.

International drug control

Intravenous drug users

Drug demand reduction

Drug demand reduction

International drug control

Female drug addicts

International drug control.

Drug abuse treatment

International drug control

Family drug behaviour

5. Drug testing

International drug control

Drug control law

Illicit drug trafficking

AGAINST DRUG ABUSE

(a) Drug dependency.

(b) Drug control

J. Drug control

Licit drug legislation

International drug control

A drug store?

A drug tycoon.

The Commission to Prevent Drug Abuse and Illegal Drug Trafficking, set up in 1994, coordinated the activities of all Government anti drug bodies.

UNDCP has issued publications such as World Drug ReportUnited Nations International Drug Control Programme, World Drug Report (New York, Oxford University Press, 1997).

National drug control strategies are essential to ensuring the planning and coordination of drug control policies and activities, including interaction among law enforcement, health, education, economic development and other sectors, as well as to promoting a balanced approach between demand and supply reduction.

The utilization of services for drug problems (the number of individuals seeking help for drug problems) has also been identified as a key epidemiological indicator of drug demand for effective drug information systems, used to monitor the situation and trends with regard to drug abuse.

The World Bank has prepared an internal study on drug control issues, intended to guide its policy on the matter.

Children are taken for visits to drop in centres for drug users, shown programmes on the dangers of drug abuse and meet drug addicts.

Programme 13 (International drug control), particularly subprogramme 13.3 (Prevention and reduction of drug abuse, elimination of illicit crops and suppression of illicit drug trafficking)