Research - Crime/Violence/Prison
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Sun sets on Middle East’s Costa del Crime
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How a Brazilian Prison Gang Became a Global Cocaine Power
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Strong Families Programme (a family-based drug use prevention intervention) helping mothers to have a strong bonding with their children
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Confronting the Illicit Finance Hydra in Crypto Markets: Protecting Retail Investors and Disrupting Hostile Government Exploitation
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The truth about Mexico’s cartel wars
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Fiji – The island paradise with the world’s fastest growing HIV epidemic
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The Amazon: A Sanctuary for Transnational Criminal Organizations
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‘It Wasn’t Working’: Canada Province Ends Drug Decriminalization
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One in four teens face violence, higher substance use
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Reducing drug deaths from novel psychoactive substances relies on foreign legislation, but here’s how it can be tackled closer to home
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Vancouver overdose prevention site closes less than 2 years after relocation
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HHS Unveils “STREETS” Initiative, Ramping Up Coerced Drug Treatment
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Arizona red ribbon week expands reach spreading prevention awareness
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Drugs: Europe, Iran and Narco Terror
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Venezuela is a true narco-state. Maduro used its levers to flood the West with cocaine
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Successful drugs in pubs police crackdown sends out clear message
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Drink-drivers will require special conditional license and on-board device in future
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“How Trump Became the Unlikely Champion of Easing Marijuana Restrictions”
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Drink- drivers renewing licence will need drunk driving prevention device (Korea)
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Scams, drugs and gambling: Inside the ‘Sin City’ built by a notorious Chinese gangster
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France’s War on Drugs: Contemporary Threats from Historical Perspectives
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Cocaine Cows
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Reefer madness is here – can the last drug warrior beat back Big Weed?
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New measures to tackle drug-trafficking and help protect Europe’s health and security
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Las Vegas casino and drug money
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The War on Drugs floats because we keep trying to sink it
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UNODC World Drug Report 2025 Key Findings
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Who is ‘El Pollo’ Carvajal ?
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Cocaine trafficking is on the increase – hot spots and preventive measures
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Prevention – Red Ribbon Week Mission Continues
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Cuba: Precursor of the Cartel of the Suns, and head of hemispheric drug trafficking
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America Loves Cocaine Again—Mexico’s New Drug King Cashes In
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Violent users of pot
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NDLEA Crushes Two Cocaine Cartels, Arrests Drug Kingpin
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UNODC Ignites Innovation with New Learning Programme and SPARK eLearning Platform
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Violence Against Women – Alcohol and Drug Facilitated Sexual Violence: Using the World Café Method for a Multi-Stakeholder Collaborative Approach to Prevention Development
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The issue of drugs doesn’t usually get showcased at the UN General Assembly. This year is different
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Youth Initiative – Introducing New DAPC Grant-Funded Projects!
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Exercise in Addiction Recovery: How Physical Activity Transforms Lives
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Deflection – a word in the Police and Justice lexicon – 10 years on
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New Anti-Drug Awareness Campaign Targets Drivers in Egypt
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Australian Reality Star Charged With Murder After Boyfriend’s Headless Body Found
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In a nation growing hostile toward drugs and homelessness, Los Angeles tries harm reduction
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Thailand to ban recreational cannabis three years after decriminalisation
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In a nation growing hostile toward drugs and homelessness, Los Angeles tries leniency
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UN Drug Office Warns that Global Drug Crisis Will Intensify
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THE DARK REALITY OF AMERICA’S DRUG CRISIS – BOOK REVIEW
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Cannabis ‘is worse for our society than heroin,’ police tsars say – as they demand government upgrade it to a class A drug
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‘Most Essential Strategy for Halting Flow of Drugs’ Is Prevention, Says Secretary-General, Marking International Day
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VICTORY IN ‘HEMP CAUSED PSYCHOSIS’ CASE
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Understanding Addiction Beyond Brain Chemistry and Choices – Regaining Control and Building Resilience
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Asia’s Golden Triangle was once the opium capital of the world. Now the drug of choice is meth
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Marijuana Use Is Rising, But Is It a Cancer Risk?
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Swordsman accused of murdering schoolboy ‘became psychotic after taking cannabis’
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Police let half of all Class A Drug users walk free
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NNOAC Urges President Trump to Not Weaken Enforcement of Federal Drug Laws
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DEA Releases 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment
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MEDIA STATEMENT: Record-breaking raids in war on illicit tobacco and dangerous vapes – Australia
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The Scammer’s Manual: How to Launder Money and Get Away With It
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Deinstitutionalizing Family Separation in Cases of Parental Drug Use
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Cannabis caused killer mother’s psychotic state
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Drug traffickers running routes through war zones
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Feds can inject some common sense in NYC — and shut down city’s ‘safe’ drug sites
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How Dirty Money From Fentanyl Sales Is Flowing Through China
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Five Common False Beliefs About Drug Use, Users, and Addiction
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Inside the country’s first official safe drug consumption site
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Cocaine consumption soars globally as traffickers find new markets
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Drone-flying drug gangs ‘seize control of prison airspace’
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How Mexican Cartels Test Fentanyl on Vulnerable People and Animals
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Promote Safe Driving Practices and Prevent Impaired Driving During the Holiday Season
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According to new provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drug deaths in the United States have fallen for the first time in five years.
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Afghanistan: opium cultivation increased by 19 per cent in second year of drugs ban, according to UNODC
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Police launch “Let’s T.A.L.K. LOL Party”
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Transnational organised crime: ‘It’s time we pull together to push back’
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Addressing the evolving drug landscape at the 2024 CND Thematic Discussions
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MARIJUANA: MAN-MADE DISASTER
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Local organizations share addiction experiences, challenges, resources
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The Shadow Dollar That’s Fueling the Financial Underworld
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Policing: a public health approach
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How Albanian small boat migrants took over Britain’s cannabis market
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Youth risk behavior survey 2013-2023
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Marijuana and violence
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‘Violent’ passenger says he ate 10 weed edibles, tries opening plane doors, feds say
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Toxic Homes For Sale: How California’s Illegal Marijuana Industry Ruins Houses
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The PopPot Report On Child Deaths Directly Linked To Marijuana Use – 2024
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Policy News Roundup: July 25, 2024
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Supporting social reintegration through sport in prisons
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High gear: the growth economy … Drugs, Gangs, and London
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GMP Officers To Carry Antidote To The Super-Strength Drug Which Has Killed 100 People Across The UK
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OSCE-UNODC Experts Work To More Effectively Combat The Illicit Trafficking Of Opiates From Afghanistan
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Rethinking drug policy: Punishment to public health
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Everyone deserves addiction treatment that works — including those in jail
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UNODC World Drug Day 2024 – report highlights spike in drug use, increased trafficking
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Our drug policies aren’t working. The evidence is in wastewater
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UNODC Executive Director: anti-corruption, fight against organized crime, and drug prevention
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DEA 2024 National Drug Threat Assessment
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Friday Fact: The rate of violent behavior in daily marijuana users aged 18-34 was nearly twice the violent behavior rate of non-users
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UNODC celebrates the power of sports in preventing violence, crime, and drug use
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INTERVIEW WITH U.S. DRUG CZAR JOHN WALTERS
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Dem gov recriminalizes drug possession despite voter referendum after overdose deaths, crime surge in Oregon
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Marijuana Know The Truth Hits Illinois
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Dem gov recriminalizes drug possession despite voter referendum after overdose deaths, crime surge in Oregon
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Drug Dealers: Dealing with Drugs and Dealers
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20 REASONS TO VOTE NO TO LEGALIZING CANNABIS – NEW ZEALAND
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A Synopsis Of The Numerous Studies Supporting An Causal Relationship Between Marijuana Use And The Chronic Psychotic Disorder Schizophrenia
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Quebec Pot Arrests Behind The Wheel Up 54% Since Legalization
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How Canada Failed To Smash The Cannabis Black Market
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Uruguay: What have we learned from their experiment? “Not enough”.
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Cannabis Use And Violence In Patients With Severe Mental Illnesses: A Meta-Analytical Investigation
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So Much for the ‘Harmless Stoner’ Sales Pitch: Legal Marijuana A Boon To Illegal Cartels
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Navajo Nation Moves To Shut Down Hemp Farms Amid Claims Of Marijuana Growing
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Drugged Driving Deaths Spike With Spread Of Legal Marijuana, Opioid Abuse
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Reefer Sadness
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Houston Gains Key Role In Synthetic Marijuana
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The White Stuff: Why Britain Can’t Get Enough Cocaine
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Licensed Cannabis Growers Have Ties To Organized Crime, Enquête Investigation Finds
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Five Years Later, Colorado Sees Toll Of Pot Legalization
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The Home Secretary Has Acted Prematurely And Dangerously On Medical Cannabis
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Spliffing in the face of the law: Fury as thousands gather to smoke cannabis in Hyde Park… and not a SINGLE ONE of them is charged
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Foreign Cartels Embrace Home-Grown Marijuana In Pot-Legal States
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Marijuana – North Carolina Drug Threat Assessment
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Featured News: Number Of Inmates With Meth Addiction Jumps In Rural Jails
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Over 100 Child Abuse Deaths Found Related To Cannabis, With Rise Of Commercial Industry
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Surest Way To Face Marijuana Charges In New York: Be Black Or Hispanic
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Marijuana-Induced Psychosis Behind Toronto Lawyer’s Bat Attack, Judge Rules
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Another Bust in Colorado Where Pot Is Legal But Evading Taxes Is Not
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Government Fentanyl Warnings Have Made It More Attractive To Heroin Users
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Quebec Pot Arrests Behind The Wheel Up 54% Since Legalization
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Marijuana Violence And Law
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Attacker Smoked Cannabis: suicide and psychopathic violence in the UK and Ireland
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Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
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Pennsylvania State Police Urge Gun Owners To Give Up Firearms To Get Medical Marijuana
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Death By Self-Mutilation After Oral Cannabis Consumption.
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Meth Kids
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Drug Court – Giving Families A Chance To Break The Cycle Of Opioid Use
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UK Accounts For Largest Share Of Darknet Fentanyl Sales In Europe
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Persistency Of Cannabis Use Predicts Violence Following Acute Psychiatric Discharge
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New Report Out On Impact Of Legal Pot On Colorado
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Reviving The War On Drugs Isn’t The Way To Improve Police/Community Relations | Opinion
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Legalising Pot Will Cause More Mayhem on our Roadways
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The PopPot Report On Child Deaths Directly Linked To Marijuana Use
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Children As Young As 12 Taking Drugs In West Belfast Says New Report
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“Our families are dying”: A Mother’s Plea For Help – New Hampshire’s Heroin Crisis With Record Overdose Deaths
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Why Is It So Hard To Test For Marijuana Intoxication?
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Kathy Gyngell: Crime Rates Soar Where We Fail To Enforce Laws Against Drugs
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Proof That Cannabis Does Cause Violence
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Cannabis Use and Risk of Prescription Opioid Use Disorder in the United States
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In opioid crisis, a new risk for police: accidental overdose
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‘Schizophrenia at its Very Depths’ Drove Mother to Kill Eight Children
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Will Legalizing Marijuana Create Modern Bootleggers?
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Marijuana Use Increases Violent Behavior
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Demographics and post-mortem toxicology findings in deaths among people arrested multiple times for use of illicit drugs and/or impaired driving
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Is Pot Losing Its Buzz in Colorado?
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Crime Is Up in Colorado: What That Tells Us About Pot Legalization and, Perhaps More Importantly, Lazy Reporting
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NYPD COMMISSIONER LINKS SHOOTINGS TO MARIJUANA
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No One Serves Jail Time for Smoking Pot
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Developmental Trajectories of Marijuana Use among Men
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Substance use disorders, psychiatric disorders, and mortality after release from prison:
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America’s Appetite for Drugs Fuelling Mexican Violence
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Crime Is Up in Colorado: What That Tells Us About Pot Legalization and, Perhaps More Importantly, Lazy Reporting
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Drug decriminalisation in Portugal
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One in four affected by other people’s problem drinking
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Saying ‘No’ to Drugs But Dying in Violence
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Men who have a history of delinquency in childhood are more likely to die or become disabled by the time they are 48
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The Differential Disinhibition Effect of Marijuana Use on Violent Behaviour
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Studies showing an ‘Association between Pot smoking and Violence
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The effectiveness of Prisoners Addressing Substance Related Offending (P-ASRO) programme
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Legalizing Pot is Not the Answer!
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Illegal trade in cigarettes, fuel and cannabis heats up as criminals seek quick profits
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Drug Legalisation: An Evaluation of the Impacts on Global Society
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Legalized Drugs: Dumber Than You May Think
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Drug Courts Can Reduce Substance Use and Crime, Five-Year Study Shows, But Effectiveness Hinges on the Judge
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Roadside Drug-testing in Victoria, Australia.
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The Relationship Between Alcohol, Drug Use and Violence Among Students
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Study: Steroid Use May Fuel Crime
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1 In 3 Drivers Under ‘The Limit’ For Alcohol Still Test Positive For Drugs
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Alcohol treatment aids wives and children too
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Drug misuse and sharing of needles in Scottish prisons
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The Involvement of Marijuana In California Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes 1998 -2008
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Steroid Users Appear More Likely To Commit Crimes Involving Weapons And Fraud, Scientists In Sweden Report
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20 Children A Day Treated For Alcoholism
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Some Statistics on Drug Use in Europe
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Dutch law could unleash cocaine flood in Britain
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People On Drugs Are Far More Likely To Commit Crime, Especially Violent Crime”
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Community action reduces violence in high-crime neighborhoods, study finds
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Scotland ‘worst in world for drug crime’
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Extra-strong incense drug warning
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Research Triangle International – A Prevention Science Approach
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Drug-misusing offenders: results from the 2008 cohort for England and Wales
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Radical scheme using ex-offenders to help prisoners is huge success
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Children who smoke cannabis are twice as likely to offend
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Alcohol and drugs deaths in Scotland are twice the UK average
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Mental Illness By Itself Does Not Predict Future Violent Behavior, Study Finds
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Cocaine link to violent behaviour
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Substance Abuse Linked to 1/4 of Violent Crimes By Patricia Reaney
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Religious Study May Cut Prison Violence
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MJ & Violence
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Vermont stops payments for dangerous drug
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Study Blames Alcohol, Other Drug Users for Crimes
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Many Violent Offenders Drank Before Crimes
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Success for Georgia’s Drug Courts, Officials Say
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Proportions of Crimes Associated with Alcohol and Other Drugs in Canada
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U.K. Girls Indulge in Violence
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Drugs and crime in the UK
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Snippets
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Prevalence and correlates of cannabis use and dependence in young New Zealanders
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Alcohol facts from SAMHSA 2001
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Drugs Spark Gang Violence in Vancouver
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Concern over cigarette portrayal on screen
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Jobs Don’t Prevent New Drug Offenses After Prison
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Drug use and violent crime among adolescents
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Drugs and Crime
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Bursting Point: The Drugs Mules Filling Up UK Prisons
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Survey Shows Many Emergencies Result from Drinking
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Prisoners Complain About Drug Treatment Programmes
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Aggressive behaviour in boys and men is not a learned behaviour
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Addiction Linked to Criminal Activity
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Violence Exposure and Substance Use in Adolescents
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