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.
Supply & Market Disruption
Solution to Detect, Classify, and Report Illicit Online Marketing and Sales of Controlled Substances via Twitter
ABSTRACT Background: On December 6 and 7, 2017, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hosted its first Code-a-Thon event aimed at leveraging technology and data-driven solutions to help combat the opioid epidemic. The authors...
Territorial patterns and socio-demographic factors associated with the killings and drug trafficking in Costa Rica
The results of the study allow to confirm the existence of spatial clusters related to the killings and seizure of drugs at the district level. In other words, both events do not occur randomly in space, they have defined patterns of...
National report on drugs and activities related 2016
OVERVIEW Treatment of consumption Government institutions: The year 2016 showed a decrease in the number of patients except those included in the range of 19 to 25 years although total attention increased over the previous year given the...
Standardized Indicators for National Drug Information Networks in the Caribbean
This guide, developed by and for persons working in member states of the Caribbean, presents a model set of indicators to countries desiring to standardize the way that they organize, collect, and report drug-related information for their...
United Kingdom Drug Situation: Focal Point Annual Report
The United Kingdom Focal Point on Drugs (UK Focal Point) 2017 report is available on the UK government's digital portal. Based at Public Health England, the UK Focal Point is the national partner of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs...
Centre for criminal networks and illicit trafficking of the Real Instituto Elcano
This valuable document, Sonia Alda Mejías presents an approach to the analysis of illegal flows of trafficking in cocaine. It does this through a vision that provides some of the key aspects of the analysis of transnational criminal...
Alcohol Outlet Availability and Excessive Alcohol Consumption in Breast Cancer Survivors
Abstract Background: Breast cancer survivors who consume alcohol excessively are at increased risk of recurrence and have worse prognosis. Because the environments in which people live shape many health behaviors, there has been increased...
The Internet and Drug Markets
Summary The last decade has seen the emergence of new internet technologies that have acted as important facilitators of online drug markets. The internet now hosts a range of virtual marketplaces (both on the surface and deep web) for...
Trends in Deaths Involving Heroin and Synthetic Opioids Excluding Methadone, and Law Enforcement Drug Product Reports
Summary What is already known about this topic? Opioid overdose deaths in the United States have been increasing since 1999, initially driven by prescription opioid misuse and more recently by heroin and other illicit opioid use. What is...
A Serious Matter: Laughing Gas Prompts Review of UK’s Psychoactive Substances Act
Introduced in 2016, The Psychoactive Substances Act is designed to deal with the influx of new drugs often labelled ‘legal highs’. The Act bans any substance that "by stimulating or depressing the person’s central nervous system… affects...