Published 18 March 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b1122
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b1122

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World drugs problem resists all attempts to curb it, says EU report

Rory Watson

1 Brussels

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The global illegal drug problem has not reduced during the past 10 years despite stronger policies to help users and tackle traffickers, according to a report prepared for the European Commission.

The assessment came as the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs met in Vienna last week, to review the progress made since the 1998 special session of the United Nations General Assembly on drugs.

The authors of the study maintain that despite the political impetus that the UN gave to an antidrug policy, the global drug problem has clearly not improved over the past decade.

"For some countries (mostly rich ones), the problem declined, but for others (mostly developing or transitional) it worsened, in some cases sharply and substantially," they conclude, adding, "We think that drug policy had no more than a marginal positive influence."

The report notes that although the number of cannabis users may have declined, the . . . [Full text of this article]


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