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2009 INCB Annual report
Highly organised and powerful criminal networks are using new processes, routes and substances to keep drug manufacturing operations alive. So states the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), in its 2009 Annual report launched in Vienna on 24 February. In the face of stricter controls of chemicals, traffickers are finding new ways to fuel their illegal exploits and are still able to obtain the chemicals they need from legal trade channels, says the INCB.
One example given is that of methamphetamine chemical precursors. Following a ban on ephedrine and pseudoephedrine in Mexico, traffickers in that country have changed their drug manufacturing techniques and are now adopting different processes using phenylacetic acid. Traffickers have also shifted their focus from obtaining ephedrine and pseudoephedrine as raw materials, to trafficking in pharmaceutical preparations of these, usually in the form of tablets or capsules. In 2009, transactions involving 31 million tablets of the two precursors were suspended, stopped or seized around the world.
The report provides a comprehensive account of the global drug situation, analyses trends in drug use and trafficking and suggests necessary remedial action. Other topics covered include: primary prevention, the use of drugs to commit sex crimes and the growing problem of prescription drug misuse.
Publisher: United Nations (INCB)
Language: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
Date: 24 February 2010
ISBN: 978-92-1-148249-2
Price: 30 USD
Press pack: www.incb.org/incb/press_releases.html
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In this issue...
- Record number of new drugs in 2009
- EMCDDA and Europol Directors review new drugs entering market
- EMCDDA and ECDC assess anthrax outbreak among heroin users
- Global audit of HIV services for IDUs reveals low levels of provision
- Sharing information on drug treatment demand in the Mediterranean
- Drug use and pregnancy: challenges for public health
- Enhancing the quality and effectiveness of services for drug users
- Experts debate drug policy
- Latest analysis of cocaine market highlights 'secondary extraction' laboratories in Europe
- EMCDDA active at annual CND meeting
- New pact against drug trafficking
- Reitox Academy focuses on national treatment guidelines
- Topic overview on threshold quantities for drug offences
- Forging ties with North-African neighbours
- Joint report on mephedrone presents case for formal risk assessment
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