A growing body of evidence clearly demonstrates that the current drug control approach has failed to achieve its stated goal - to reduce the scale of the illicit drug market and the prevalence of drug use - and has led to a number of serious negative consequences. The publications cited below are only a small selection of available documentation on the issue:

Many more reports and briefings are available on the IDPC Publications Library, where you can search for publications by subject, author, organisation, date of publication, language and key word.

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