Towards the creation of an illicit drug index

International drug control is about a century old. The notion of a ‘drug problem’, as well as the will to tackle it, have thus gained a strong foothold in public opinion, government policy and multilateral cooperation. Yet, traditionally presented as a supply-demand issue, split between the three sectors of production, trafficking and consumption, and further broken down into various drug categories, the “drug problem” has so far not found a representation that goes beyond the existing mosaic of perceptions and statistics, and encompasses them into a single standard measure.

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Good Health and Well-Being