Illicit drug traffic and supply

Illicit drug traffic and supply

Illicit drug trends were to some extent determined by supply and demand, but drug cultivation was also about poverty, just as drug abuse was also about HIV AIDS.

Representatives also reported on their national strategies to reduce illicit drug supply and demand.

With the cooperation of the Inter American Drug Abuse Control Commission, the National Commission against Illicit Drug Use had developed a national anti drug plan for 2002 2007 that was aimed at balancing supply reduction and demand reduction efforts.

In the area of drug control, Jordan had adopted a national plan of action against narcotic drugs with the aim of eliminating drug use, reducing supply and facilitating treatment of addicts.

Although MSF uses its own drug supply, Chinese patients still often buy medicine with unknown ingredients and efficacy on the street.

Emphasizing that the efforts made by developing countries to reduce illicit drug supply carry a high price in political, economic and social terms,

This raises a basic credibility issue how can Europe urge Colombia and Peru to reduce supply when its own drug habit is driving cultivation?

On the supply side, there must be more support for poor farmers in drug producing countries to give them viable alternatives to growing coca.

Emphasizing that the efforts made by developing countries to reduce illicit drug supply carry a proportionally higher price in political, economic and social terms,

Emphasizing the importance of supply reduction as an integral part of a balanced drug control strategy, and reaffirming that countering the world drug problem is a common and shared responsibility that must be addressed in a multilateral setting,

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.

2. Also reaffirms that there shall be a balanced approach between demand reduction and supply reduction, each reinforcing the other, in an integrated approach to solving the drug problem

UNODC continues to support Governments in the full implementation of the drug control conventions through a balanced programme of work involving advocacy, legislation, prevention and supply reduction (ibid., para.

2. Also reaffirms that there shall be a balanced approach between demand reduction and supply reduction, each reinforcing the other, in an integrated approach to solving the world drug problem

In 2004, the European Council had endorsed the European Union Drug Strategy (2005 2012), which concentrated on the reduction of both supply and demand and on international cooperation, research and evaluation.

1.132 The new computerized health management information system and the drug supply management system will have been established at all primary health care facilities with links to Field Offices and Headquarters.

By freeing up resources devoted to enforcing policies against low level users, countries can better tackle serious drug supply issues and provide people with the effective treatment that they need and deserve.

Following a competitive bidding exercise in April 2001, IAPSO was selected to procure drugs and manage the related supply process for the Global Drug Facility (GDF) of the Stop TB Partnership (www.stoptb.org).

114. We reaffirm our unwavering determination and commitment to overcome the world narcotic drug problem through international cooperation and national strategies to eliminate both the illicit supply of and demand for illicit drugs.

Satellite imagery programming and supply for illicit crop monitoring by the drug programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in all priority countries, including Afghanistan, Myanmar and Colombia (since 2003).

Supply

While measures to curtail the supply of illicit drugs might be effective in the short term, in the long term the drug problem could only be addressed effectively by reducing the demand for such drugs.

C. Supply

Water Supply

Energy supply

Supply Section

Supply Section

Emphasizing that the need to balance the global licit supply of opiates against the legitimate demand for opiates used to meet medical and scientific needs is central to the international strategy and policy of drug control,

Demand or Supply?

Spotlight Supply operations

Spotlight Supply operations

International drug control

Intravenous drug users

Drug demand reduction

Drug demand reduction

International drug control

Female drug addicts

International drug control.

Emphasizing the primary importance of international cooperation in combating drug trafficking and drug abuse,

(d) To allocate, while keeping the balance between supply and demand reduction programmes, adequate resources to allow it to fulfil its role in the implementation of the Action Plan for the Implementation of the Declaration on the Guiding Principles of Drug Demand Reduction, and to support countries, upon their request, in further continuing to develop and implement drug demand reduction policies

World demand and supply

Electricity and water supply

(h) Procurement and supply