This paper explores existing and emerging drug problems and responses in the city environment. It addresses four areas: urban spaces and drug use, businesses and recreational drug use, city-level drugs policies and the coordination and funding of city-level policies. The paper is based on three...

This paper describes the development and main characteristics of drug policy in Austria. It provides readers - from researchers to policy makers - with an insight into how illicit drugs have been controlled and drug-related problems have been responded to. The report traces the development of...

This paper sets out to explore the civil society organisations that engage in drug policy advocacy in Europe. Information was gathered through an Internet search carried out in English, French and Spanish, supplemented by data provided by national agencies in the 28 EU Member States, Norway and...

The national drug policy of Ireland comes under the spotlight in the latest volume in the EMCDDA series of Drug policy profiles published in February. Examining the evolution of Irish drug policy through four periods of historic development, the report explores: the country's national...

The production and trafficking of illicit drugs poses complex and interlinked problems, which have a negative impact on public health and the security and stability of society. In responding to the dynamics of a globalised drug market, the EU and its partners are involved in actions within and...