Sao Paulo State has launched a programme that will provide subsidies to rehabilitate dependent on crack cocaine at private treatment centres.

The mayor of Bogota has recently proposed a pilot scheme for people dependent on crack cocaine to be treated with marijuana.

The objective of this UNODC report is to further the understanding about the mechanics of illicit trade in the East Asia and the Pacific region: the how, where, when, who, and why of selected contraband markets affecting the region.

The report shows that cannabis is the most commonly used drug in Pakistan, with four million people listed as users.

Bolivian president Evo Morales adopted a policy of promoting consensual coca reduction through social control, a sophisticated coca monitoring system, and economic development.

Drug traffickers are to face life imprisonment in Uganda if a Bill which is under consideration by the parliamentary defense committee is passed.

This UNODC report analyses the dynamics of key crime in West African markets and provides recommendations for the international community to tackle cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin trafficking, as well as other drug-related problems.

The aim of this second TEDI' s report is to present the results of the data that has been gathered, analysed and compared by six harm reduction groups during the seven-month period June–December 2012 in five countries.

Early intervention with young people and the development drug courts aims to reduce contacts with the criminal justice system.

This petition calls on the UN to provide leadership in bringing an end to the unjust and ineffective practice of aerial spraying in Colombia.

Coca plantations are the largest illegal agribusiness in the world, and Colombia is the world’s leading coca producer.This article evaluates the social and environmental impacts of this policy.

This network of European fieldwork drug checking services shares expertise and data within a European monitoring and information system. This trend report includes 1,690 analyses from the period January to May 2012.

This report is the outcome of a project into opioid overdoses. The remit was to focus on finding practical methods of overdose prevention.

The study examines the impact of the major trafficking flows of cocaine; women and children coerced into the sex trade; migrants smuggled for labour; and firearms.

The lack of transparency about how U.S. officials calculate cocaine production estimates, combined with the contention that Bolivia is producing more cocaine than Colombia—despite having far less land under coca cultivation than Colombia or Peru— undermines U.S. credibility and isolates...

Colombia's Constitutional Court has approved the government proposal to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of cocaine and marijuana for personal use, Colombia media reported Friday.

During a special thematic debate on drugs and crime as a threat to development, Mr. Fedotov said that with the 2015 deadline approaching to take stock of global progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, there is an increasing recognition that organized crime and illicit drugs...

Statement from Yury Fedotov, Executive Director UNODC on International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov today in New York launched the 2012 World Drug Report during a General Assembly thematic debate on the impact of drugs and crime on development.

This is the Secretary General's message for the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, 26 June 2012.