these populations. Bio-behavioral surveys focused on injection drug use can be useful but are expensive and have not always … (AU) to collect drug-use data from drug treatment facilities is undermined by the dearth of facilities addressing the drug … sustained regular monitoring of drug use. But meaningful participation in data collection may be contingent on both concerted …

This volume is part of the response to the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on international drug … policy and the emergence of analysis of international drug policy in academic literature. Editors David Bewley-Taylor and …-Western countries. They have selected authors to provide an analytical critique of international drug policy, evidencing their stance of …

Thailand as practitioners of rural development policies in drug crop affected regions seek to translate the lessons of … traditional "alternative development" to urban and borderland areas affected by drug trafficking, arguing that many of the … drug debates. It then takes a step into the literature on peacebuilding, examining the possible positioning of drugs and …

that were once among the largest global producers of coca. The principal strategies used in these interventions are drug … conclude the article by discussing these findings in the context of recent scholarship and ongoing supply-side drug policies …

The concept of alternative development (AD) in international drug control has evolved over the past four decades, with … several major milestones between the two United Nations General Assembly Special Sessions on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS …) 1998 and 2016. However, it was not until UNGASS 2016 that the door for development-oriented thinking in international drug …

Using existing research and original data, I discuss the development of a transatlantic drug market between Brazil and … West Africa and its implications on Brazil’s development and drug trafficking value chain. After establishing milestones of … drug traffickers, namely their strategies and use of violence by analyzing the development of maritime trade and the …

segundo ocorrências e massa [Drug Seizures in the State of São Paulo: An In-Depth View of Drug Seizures Broken Down by Number … of Incidents and Drug Amounts], conducted by Instituto Sou da Paz to encourage a discussion about Brazil’s drug policy …. The study focuses on drug incidents in the state of São Paulo, the richest and most populous in Brazil, which accounts for …

likely to follow. But ignoring or denying that such policy shifts contravene certain obligations under the UN drug control … drug control conventions so as to accommodate cannabis regulation is not feasible for the foreseeable future, and the … options that do not require consensus are limited. For countries choosing to regulate cannabis, notwithstanding the drug …