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COLOMBIA: SECRET OF THE SWAMPS: COLOMBIA'S COCAINE SUBMARINES. Mangrove Boatyards Build To Order For Traffickers Supplying US Market. [Read More] 29/06/09

The Obama administration’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan told allies on Saturday that the United States was shifting its drug policy in Afghanistan away from eradicating opium poppy fields and toward interdicting drug supplies and cu [Read More] 29/06/09

The Failure of the War on Drugs: Charting a New Course for the Commonwealth. Report calls sentencing of nonviolent drug offenders too harsh and costly; says complete overhaul of state’s failed system necessary [Read More] 26/06/09

World Drug Report 2009 released. The Report was launched in Washington, D.C., by UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa and the newly appointed Director of the United States Office of National Drug Control Policy [Read More] 25/06/09

How people become addicted to drugs and why they may find it difficult to stop are issues explored by the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA) today in new material released ahead of International day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking (26 June). [Read More] 24/06/09

How does UNODC estimate opium cultivation and production figures? It is important for Governments and the international community to know where opium poppy is cultivated and how much opium and heroin can be produced in order to understand and tackle the i [Read More] 24/06/09

Drugnet Ireland Summer 2009. Newsletter of the Alcohol and Drug Research Unit [Ireland] Items on International context for Ireland's new drug strategy and EU drug fight against absue. [Read More] 23/06/09

UNODC Reports Steep Decline in Cocaine Production in Colombia Concerns about links between drugs and terrorism in Peru. Major increase in seizures [Read More] 22/06/09

Drug Use in Ireland and Northern Ireland: 2006/2007 Drug Prevalence Survey: Polydrug Use Results. The focus is on the combinations of both legal and illegal drugs based on information obtained from the second drug prevalence survey of households [Read More] 15/06/09

It seems like such an unlikely finding: In a University of Minnesota study of kleptomania—the compulsion to steal—a popular medicine used to treat both heroin addiction and alcoholism drastically reduced stealing among a group of 25 shoplifter [Read More] 9/06/09