Selected Resources

On the World Wide web:

http://www.undcp.org/report_1999-06-01_1.html

http://www.undcp.org/report_1999-03-31_1.html

http://www.undcp.org/report_1997-12-31_1.html

http://www.ccsa.ca/ Canadian Center on Substance Abuse. A nonprofit organization working to minimize the harm associated with the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. Useful site full of resources. A good entrance door to understand drug abuse better.

http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDAHome.html Scientific information on drug abuse from the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the USA.

http://www.UNICEF.org/voy. Gives good information to young people, especially children. Voices of Youth (Voy) also allows young people to exchange ideas with others around the world on various issues.

Publications:

UNDCP: Facing the challenge, UNDCP, Vienna

World Drug Report, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997

Graph/chart

Increase in the number of drugs and substances under international control (1912 – 1995) 

From UNDCP: Facing the challenge, p.21 (on the web: http://www.undcp.org/pdf/report_1997-12-31_1.pdf

Deaths due to drug abuse in six Western European Countries
Same publication, page 1
(This paper was contributed by UNDCP)