Supply & Market Disruption

Supply and market disruption refers to coordinated strategies aimed at reducing the production, trafficking, distribution, and availability of illicit substances. These strategies often involve law enforcement, regulatory controls, border management, and financial investigations designed to disrupt drug trafficking networks and weaken illicit drug markets. By targeting supply chains and market dynamics, these efforts aim to reduce the availability of drugs, increase the risks and costs associated with illegal production and distribution, and contribute to broader efforts to reduce substance-related harms. Effective supply and market disruption typically operates alongside public health, prevention, treatment, and recovery responses as part of a comprehensive approach to substance use. 

2021 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report

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2021 INCSR–Volume I: Drug and Chemical Control (As submitted to Congress) To read the full report, please visit: https://www.state.gov/2021-incsr-volume-i-drug-and-chemical-control-as-submitted-to-congress/
International Narcotics Control Strategy Report

World Situation with Regard to Drug Trafficking

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This report provides an overview of the latest trends in the illicit production of and trafficking in drugs worldwide. The statistics and analysis in the report are based on the latest information available to the United Nations Office on...

Measuring Organized Crime in the Western Balkans

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Executive Summary The findings of this report are based on a statistical and analytical framework to measure and assess organized crime in the Western Balkans. Six countries and territories are included: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina...

The Effects of COVID-19 on the Illegal Drug Supply

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This webinar explored how regulations put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are inadvertently contributing to an increasingly toxic illegal drug supply and how this shift has both increased health harms and created policy...

The Effects of COVID-19 on the Illegal Drug Supply

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Webinar

This webinar will explore how regulations put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are inadvertently contributing to an increasingly toxic illegal drug supply and how this shift has both increased health harms and created policy opportunities. Presentations will highlight different perspectives, including systems-level epidemiology data, findings from a local drug checking program and experiences shared by people who use drugs.

The Rapidly Changing Composition of the World's Drug Supply and Its Effects on High-Risk for COVID-19

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Arizona
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United States
The second of two presentations by Thom Browne Jr. (MA Criminal Justice, CEO of Colombo Plan) on the emerging and rapidly-changing properties of illicit drugs and their cutting agents that put substance users worldwide at high-risk for near- and long-term chronic health problems, overdose (fatal & non-fatal), and increased vulnerability to both the acquisition of viruses like COVID-19 and more severe complications from the virus.
Thom Browne

The Rapidly Changing Composition of the World's Drug Supply and Its Effects on High-Risk for COVID-19

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Arizona
, 
United States
The first of two presentations by Thom Browne Jr. (MA Criminal Justice, CEO of Colombo Plan) on the emerging and rapidly-changing properties of illicit drugs and their cutting agents that put substance users worldwide at high-risk for near- and long-term chronic health problems, overdose (fatal & non-fatal), and increased vulnerability to both the acquisition of viruses like COVID-19 and more severe complications from the virus.
Thom Browne