Publications

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1 January 2006

Social and economic costs of drug use in the UK

The Home Office have published a research study called The economic and social costs of Class A drug use in England and Wales which provides a useful analyses of the wider costs of illegal drugs – the most thorough and recent such study available. The study, undertaken by York University, explains its methodology and has analysis which is very clear about it's limitations, giving a wide margin of error on all its estimates due to the unreliability of some source data.

18 November 2005

CRS report for Congress: Drug crop eradication and alternative development in the Andes

Providing alternatives to drug crops is believed to be crucial to achieve effective eradication. The U.S. approach to alternative development is to link it to eradication.

30 June 2005

Drugs futures 2025?

This report does not offer predictions, but it does raise issues and possibilities that policy makers and others might wish to consider. Some are more speculative than others. As this report looks out to 2025 and future possibilities, it inevitably challenges current thinking.

27 April 2005

The public health and social impacts of drug market enforcement: A review of the evidence

This document focus on mechanisms through which police activities, occurring in drug markets, intersect with the health and practices of illicit drug users, the delivery of health care, and dynamics within neighbouring communities. The authors conclude with a discussion of the benefits and costs associated drug market with policing and alternatives to this particular approach.

18 March 2005

U.S. drug control policy's effects on Columbia: Destablizing democracy and fostering narco-terrorism

Finding that U.S. drug control policy has been only marginally successful in achieving national objectives, the Strategy Research Project will propose possible reasons for its ineffectiveness and recommend alternatives to improve policy.

1 January 2005

Beckley Report Number 10 - Treatment for dependant drug use

This report aims to give policymakers an accessible summary of the current evidence available on the effectiveness of treatment, and suggestions on how treatment services can be expanded and integrated into a co-ordinated system.

1 January 2005

Report of the 8th European Conference on Drugs and Infections Prevention in Prison - Unlocking Potential: Making Prisons Safe for Everyone

The proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Drugs and Infections Prevention in Prison, "Unlocking Potential: Making Prisons Safe for Everyone” organised by Cranstoun Drug Services on behalf of the European Network on Drugs and Infections Prevention in Prison, at Corinthia Grand Hotel, Budapest, Hungary, from 7th to 9th July 2005.

1 January 2005

Beckley Briefing Paper Number 5 - Thailand's 'War on Drugs'

The Thai 'war on drugs', which commenced in February 2003 in response to an explosion in methamphetamine use in this region of East Asia, has resulted in thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of arrests.

1 January 2005

Beckley Briefing Paper Number 8 - The rise of harm reduction in the Islamic Republic of Iran

This paper looks at changing approaches to the drug problem in Iran where there is growing recognition of the limits of an enforcement driven approach, and the importance of the medical and social dimensions of drug misuse.

1 January 2005

Beckley Report Number 3 - Law enforcement and supply reduction

This report looks at the approach to drug policy that has dominated the field for much of the past 40 years, and is sometimes characterised - and, to some degree, caricatured - as the 'war on drugs' approach.

1 January 2005

Beckley Report Number 4 - Reducing drug related harms to health: A review of the global evidence

This report looks at the various ways in which the use of illegal drugs causes harm to individual and public health.

1 January 2005

Selective Concern: The 2005 Report of the International Narcotic Control Board on the Need for Accountability

The International Narcotic Control Board (INCB) is a thirteen member body of independent experts charged with monitoring implementation of three international drug control treaties known as the UN conventions.