Illicit drug market and its economic impact

By Vopravil J., Rossi C.

The overall goal of the project was increased knowledge of illicit drug market from demand a supply side, behaviours of drug users, and of drug legislation in countries participated in the project, in order to produce effective global indicators to evaluate actions and policies of drug supply and drug demand reduction.

The results will be useful for the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) in terms of the list of collected data; and the statistical office of the European Union (Eurostat) in terms of the financial indicators from drug market, that should be included in national accounts by the national statistical offices. The terminology of the book comes from the field of drug policy makers, same as of national accountants, so that it is comprehensive to both groups of experts

This book was published as results of the European Project "New Methodological tools for policy and programme evaluation".

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