Drug supply indicators: Pitfalls and possibilities for improvements to assist comparative analysis

Interventions to tackle the supply of drugs are seen as standard components of illicit drug policies. Therefore drug market-related administrative data, such as seizures, price, purity and drug-related offending, are used in most countries for policy monitoring and assessment of the drug situation. International agencies, such as the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) and the UN Office of Drugs and Crime, also monitor and report on the drug situation cross-nationally and therefore seek to collect and make available key data in a uniform manner from the countries they cover.

Source: International Journal of Drug Policy - March 3, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Nicola Singleton, Andrew Cunningham, Teodora Groshkova, Luis Royuela, Roumen Sedefov Source Type: research