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In March 2002, in its resolution 45/14, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs urged Member States, in cooperation with the United Nations International Drug Control Programme, to prepare a comprehensive thematic evaluation of alternative development.[...]
The upsurge in methamphetamine use in Thailand is significantly increasing and contributing to regional conflict as the Thai military takes on the producers and smugglers. (Extract of the publication)
Druglink, Vol.26, n°2 - March-April 2011 - Empty bed syndrome. Can rehab find a cure?
2011
Bulletin : PériodiqueThe cover story of the March‐April issue of Druglink, 'Rehab UK: full house or bleak house?' looks at the history of rehab in this country and considers current challenges faced by smaller agencies at a time of increasing financial strain. The[...]
ENGLISH : A substantial proportion of the world's population is engaged in chewing areca nut and the habit is endemic throughout the Indian subcontinent, large parts of south Asia and Melanesia. A large variety of ingredients, including tobacc[...]
ENGLISH : Annotation: This analysis of the linkages between the dynamics of globalization and organized crime focuses on events in East and Southeast Asia and southern Africa. Abstract: These areas are the most marginalized subregions located [...]
ENGLISH : This article describes the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and other bloodborne infections is well established among injection drug user (IDU) populations in South Asia (SA). IDU populations in SA are diverse and display different demographic[...]
The first half of the book (chapters 1 to 5), draws on the complex history and geopolitics of the opium poppy in Asia, from Neolithic times to the mid-twentieth-century emergence of the Golden Triangle and the Golden Crescent, to the most recent[...]
FRANÇAIS : La Birmanie produit approximativement 60% de l'héroïne mondiale et le Laos en est le troisième producteur. Les récentes explosions de l'usage injectable de drogues et de l'infection au VIH-1 en Birmanie, en Inde, en Chine et au Vietn[...]
Ce récit d'une fille de fonctionnaire colonial chargé du trafic d'opium en Indochine nous révèle les angoisses, les expériences et les rencontres diverses que lui a occasionné sa vie d'enfant livrée à elle-même. Il constitue un document précieux[...]
FRANÇAIS : Les politiques de répression et de soins de l'administration Nixon sont souvent créditées de la fin de l'épidémie d'héroïnomanie qui s'était développée dans les années 60 dans les villes américaines. Cet article montre que, bien que [...]
FRANÇAIS : Le mystère qui subsiste quant aux origines exactes du pavot n'a d'égal que l'opacité qui caractérise ses deux régions de production actuelles les plus importantes au monde : le Triangle d'Or (Laos, Birmanie, Thaïlande) et le Croissan[...]
Heroin is the most dangerous drug worldwide. This report presents data on the distribution of trafficking flows for Afghan opiates and their health impact throughout the world. Trafficking in Afghan opiates is also very lucrative, generating som[...]
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