Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present some of the continued resistance and challenges faced by drug checking services (DCS) and review how the existing literature and the contributions to the special issue address them, with a view to making recommendations. Design/methodology/approach...

This report presents a comparative analysis of drug problems and drug policies in a sample of eighteen countries over the period 1998 to 2007. It describes major changes and trends in individual countries and provides a comparison of countries. Domains examined include drug supply (production...