Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2003
Foreword
I. Drugs, crime and violence: the microlevel impact
- Characteristics and possible explanations
- Understanding drugs and crime
- Youth, gangs, drugs and violence
- Consequences and the way forward
- Responding to drugs, crime and violence at the microlevel: policy implications
- Conclusion: considerations for intervention
II. Operation of the international drug control system
- Status of adherence to the international drug control treaties
- Cooperation with Governments
- Prevention of diversion into the illicit traffic
- Control measures
- Scope of control
- Ensuring the availability of drugs for medical purposes
- Follow-up to missions of the Board undertaken in 2000
- Measures to ensure the implementation of the international drug control treaties
- Laws and practices involving penalties for drug trafficking
- Use of internationally controlled drugs by military and police forces
- Measures to reduce harm
- Definition of medical use
III. Analysis of the world situation
- Africa
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Americas
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
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Asia
- East and South-East Asia
- South Asia
- West Asia
- Europe
- Oceania
- Regional groupings used in the report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2003
- Current membership of the International Narcotics Control Board