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Items tagged with opium

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Financing Dispossession - China’s Opium Substitution Programme in Northern Burma [21-02-12] China’s opium crop substitution programme has very little to do with providing mechanisms to decrease reliance on poppy cultivation or provide alterna...
Round Table on Alternative Development [15-03-09] The last of the four ‘round tables’ of the high-level segment of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs was devoted to the broad issue of Countering illicit...
Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007 [15-03-09] This report commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 20...
Bangkok Dialogue [18-02-09] The Transnational Institute (TNI) and the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) co-hosted the First Southeast Asian Informal Drug Policy Dialogue, 12-14 ...
Withdrawal Symptoms [09-01-09] Drug control agencies have called the significant decline in opium production in Southeast Asia over the past decade a 'success story'. The ...
SCOPE: Strategy for Coca and Opium Poppy Elimination [24-02-08] UNDCPs 1998 plan to eradicate the cultivation of both coca and opium poppy by the year 2008 was a rare opportunity to re-think current drugs efforts...
International Drug Control: 100 Years of Success? [26-06-06] In its 2006 World Drug Report, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) struggles to construct success stories to convince the world that the global d...
Alternative development: an introduction [01-03-03] Alternative Development programmes, aimed at encouraging peasants to switch from growing illicit drugs-related crops, play an important role in UN dru...
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Study: The ‘gateway drug’ is alcohol, not marijuana

A study in the August edition of The Journal of School Health finds that the generations old theory of a “gateway drug” effect is in fact accurate for some drug users, but shifts the blame for those addicts’ escalating substance abuse away from marijuana and onto the most pervasive and socially accepted drug in American life: alcohol.

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In 2011 the 1961 UN Single Convention on drugs will be in place for 50 years. In 2012 the international drug control system will exist 100 years since the International Opium Convention was signed in 1912 in The Hague. Does it still serve its purpose or is a reform of the UN Drug Conventions needed? This site provides critical background.