United Nations Drug Control

United Nations Drug Control Programme, Recommended Methods for Testing Heroin, Manual for use by national narcotics laboratories. United Nations Division of Narcotic Dmgs, New York, 1988. 

The United Nations Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) also has a particularly useful website (www.undcp.org) from where a large amount of interesting material and articles can be accessed and also downloaded. An on-line version of the Bulletin on Narcotics is also available from this site, and in addition, links provide access to the relevant international legislative documents and facilities for downloading these. 

UNDCP United Nations Drug Control Programme... 

UN document ID number ST/NAR/31. Recommended Methods for the Detection and Assay of Lysergide (LSD), Phencyclidine (PCP) and Methaqualone in Biological Specimens United Nations Drug Control Programme, 1999, http //www.unodc.org... 

Office of National Drug Control Policy. (2001). The economic costs of drug abuse in the United States, 1992-1998 (Publication No. NCJ-190636). Washington, DC Executive Office of the President. 

Drug Availability Steering Committee, Drug Availability Estimates in the United States, December 2002 and Office on National Drug Control Policy, National Drug Control Strategy, Feb. 2003-... 

The Office of National Drug Control Policy s (ONDCP) study of 21 major metropolitan areas in the United States revealed that the most likely user of heroin is over 30 years old. However, younger adults (18-30) comprise a substantial portion of those believed to be experimenting with heroin use. In the South, younger adults are more likely than adults over 30 to be regular users of the drug. 

Learn of the national drug control policy as implemented by the White House of the United States. Find information on the 1988 Anti-Drug Abuse Act and other pertinent government initiatives to cap illegal drug use. 

In 2005 and 2006, first-time users of illicit drugs in the United States increased by 40%, one third under the age of 18. Shutting domestic laboratories has substantially reduced the supply of methamphetamine. Yet, first-time users in the United States increased to 860,000 in 2005 from 615,000 in 2006. At the United States northern border, federal law enforcement officials seized 5,485,619 doses of Ecstasy in 2006, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, compared with 568,220 in 2003. 

On February 29,1996, retired Army general Barry McCaffrey was sworn in as President Clinton s new director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and was given the responsibility for overseeing counter-drug operations in Central and South American countries. Between 80 and 90% of the cocaine consumed in the United States at the time was either produced and/or distributed in Columbia, as well as some 60% of the heroin. His efforts have been only partly successful. 

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