drug policy, actual policies appear not to have caught up with this rhetoric. There is a lingering over-emphasis in … narcotic drug policies on policing and incarceration at the expense of urgently needed investment in health and social services …, mostly in the European Union, highlights that bringing public health evidence into the center of drug policy decision …

light of drug market and policy developments since 2012. As part of this reassessment, we question some of the assumptions … special issue and then sketches some of the key drug market developments on the continent since. Third, it discusses the major … unchanged problem with drug markets in Africa, i.e. the lack of data. We end by considering the major difference since 2012: a …

development. On the other hand, conditions of unemployment and poverty foster expansion of illegal drug markets. In this study, I … illegal drug market as a response to the failure of state-led development. The study is based on 31 in-depth interviews with … male retail drug dealers in Nigeria. Findings revealed various ways the participants framed retail drug trade in connection …

This article identifies the early dictatorship of former President Ferdinand Marcos as a significant moment in drug … notion of episodic history, it shows how the Marcos government capitalized on the idea of a 'drug menace' and narrativized … the ideal of 'discipline' to justify its authoritarian regime and establish a heavily prohibitionist and punitive drug …

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 …