Control Of Drug Trafficking Research Articles

The use of blockchain technology in law enforcement

This article explores the possibilities of using blockchain technology in police work. Examples of the use of blockchain in various areas of police activity, such as personal data management, control of drug trafficking and other prohibited substances, traffic monitoring and the fight against cybercrime, are considered. The authors note that thanks to the storage of data in the blockchain, it becomes possible to increase the protection of the confidentiality of personal information, ensure transparency and efficiency of police work, as well as prevent fraud and corruption. The conclusion of the article emphasizes that the use of blockchain can improve the work of the police and ensure greater security of citizens. Distributed ledger technology, or blockchain as a service (BaaS) is indeed a relatively new product on the market that allows you to provide blockchain services for corporate clients. This solution allows you to use more reliable and secure methods of data processing and transaction management within the organization. All these economic effects can lead to a reduction in costs and an increase in the efficiency of the police. In general, the use of blockchain technology in the police can have a number of advantages, such as increasing transparency and accountability, reducing data processing time and combating data falsification. However, it is necessary to take into account some risks, such as the possibility of data privacy violations, as well as difficulties in integrating with existing systems and training personnel. In general, the introduction of blockchain technology into the police requires careful analysis and an approach that takes into account all aspects of the use of technology and its impact on the organization.

The role of the toxicological service in the drug situation monitoring system: problems and ways of improvement

Introduction. The relevance of the research topic is determined by the high significance of measures aimed at combating and preventing the illegal distribution and non-medical use of narcotic substances.
 The aim of the study. Show the importance of toxicological monitoring in the drug situation assessment system, identify existing problems and ways to improve it.
 Material and methods. analiysis of the regulatory legal framework regulating the provision of toxicological care to the population and the drug situation monitoring system, analysis of the toxicological monitoring system in St. Petersburg. Statistical and analytical methods along with content analysis were used.
 results. The article presents the contribution of the toxicological service to the drug situation monitoring system in the Russian Federation and identifies a number of organizational problems related to the diagnosis and accounting of acute poisoning with narcotic substances. Proposed the ways of improving toxicological monitoring, which will improve the quality and efficiency of information capturing – organization and equipping with modern diagnostic equipment of toxicological centers (departments) in all subjects of Russian Federation; ensuring the availability of toxicological counseling through the development of a system of regional information and advisory toxicological centers; coordination of poisoning by new narcotic substances and their precursors with the unified coding system ICD-10; development of a control system for filling out registration form No. 58-1/у “Emergency notification of acute poisoning of chemical etiology”; supplement the group “drug poisoning” of Federal Forms of Statistical Observation No. 57 and No. 14 with nosological units - cannabis poisoning (T40.7), LSD poisoning (T40.8), poisoning with other and unspecified psychodisleptics (T40.9); organization of a stationary post of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the basis of toxicological centers, which will allow more effective measures to prevent spread and use of drugs.
 Limitations. Regulatory and legal framework in the field of official statistical accounting of acute poisoning with drugs and psychosleptics.
 Conclusion. The data obtained in the course of the study will allow improving the system of monitoring the drug situation in the country, conducting a comparative interregional analysis, promptly and objectively evaluating the quality of work on the prevention of illegal distribution and non-medical use of narcotic substances and drug trafficking control.

Control of drug trafficking in plantation state-owned enterprise area to achieve a sustainable development

Corporate sustainable development emphasizes on increasing economic profits without creating environmental and social damages. This study explores the control of drug trafficking in the plantation Badan Usaha Milik Negara (BUMN) or state-owned enterprise (SOE) area to achieve an increasing company profit. The control shall not sacrifice the future generation but can still realize sustainable development. To improve the quality of life and create a conducive environment for plantation SOE, the CSR programs are to support the establishment of a harmonious relationship between the SOE and the surrounding communities by upholding values, norms, and culture. This study applied a normative juridical method. The findings suggest that drug trafficking has now involved the young generation living around the plantation SOE estates. Children, adolescents, and adults in the estates have been exposed to drug trafficking. Moreover, they committed criminal activities such as stealing fresh fruit bunches to buy narcotics. Drug trafficking is one of the inhibiting factors for sustainable development in plantation SOE. In conclusion, the control of drug trafficking to achieve sustainable development can be done with appropriate CSR funding allocation. The fund should be effectively allocated to the drug prevention programs, the counselling to local communities, and the law enforcement.

International Cooperation as an Effective Mechanism for the Control of Drug Trafficking Case Study of West Africa, Europe and Latin America

Drug trafficking has been a menace to many societies and still pose a threat to even stronger economies. Recent changes and new developments, curtailed with the world attention on extremist terrorism to mention but few, has contributed to the shift of resources and geographical cooperation from how drug trafficking has evolved especially in Africa, and how much threat it is currently posing in Europe, which is currently the new haven for drug traffickers and consumers. This work seeks to look at how effective International cooperation between states and continents could lead to effective control of drug trafficking. The International Narcotic Control Board and the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crimes have suggested international cooperation as an effective tool that could be used to combat the problem of drug production, consumption and trafficking. The work looks at the various internal anti drug programs in West Africa, Latin America and Europe and how effective the programs have been in controlling drug trafficking. It further assess the effectiveness of anti drug programs developed through international cooperation’s and mutual programs that have existed between States. The findings and analyses suggest how effective international cooperation could be an effective program to battle drug trafficking, and states ability to absorb international partnership and build upon it.

Acute Poisoning in Elderly; a Five-Year Study (2008-2013) in Hamadan, Iran

Background: A good proportion of poisoned patients treated at poisoning wards are elderly. This study was designed to evaluate the epidemiologic pattern of acute poisoning in elderly in Hamadan, western Iran. Methods: In this retrospective cross-sectional study, poisoned patients aged 60 years and older treated at department of poisoning of Farshchian Hospital from March 2008 to March 2013 were included. Results: In this 5-year period, 7951 poisoned patients were treated at Farshchian Hospital in Hamadan, Iran. Among them, 418 (5.3%) patients were 60 years old or older, with mean age of 71.6 ± 5.1 years. Narcotics and recreational substances were the most common type of poisons responsible for poisoning (46.4%), which among them, methadone was the most commonly used drug (20.3%). Neurologic medicines were the most commonly used pharmaceutical products (16%), among which, benzodiazepines (8.9%) were responsible for the highest number of poisonings due to pharmaceuticals. Fifteen patients (3.6%) including 13 men and 2 women died. The toxic agents used by cases with fatal outcome were opioids (8 patients), organophosphates (5 patients) and aluminum phosphide (2 patients). Men were found to be significantly more affected with recreational substances (P < 0.001) and pesticides (P < 0.001), while poisoning with pharmaceutical products (P = 0.017) was significantly more common in women. Regarding the intention of poisoning, accidental poisoning (P = 0.025) and overdose (P < 0.001) were significantly more common in men while deliberate self-poisoning was significantly more frequent in women (P < 0.001). Conclusion: Deliberate self-harm and poisoning with opioids especially methadone showed a high prevalence in elderly poisoned patients in Hamadan, Iran. It seems that drug trafficking control, addiction rehabilitation therapies and suicide prevention programs for elderly can be helpful in poisoning reduction in this age group in this part of the country.

Mexico: narco-violence and a failed state?

Bloodshed connected with Mexican drug cartels, how they emerged, and their impact on the United States is the subject of this frightening book. Savage narcotics-related decapitations, castrations, and other murders have destroyed tourism in many Mexican communities and such savagery is now cascading across the border into the United States. Grayson explores how this spiral of violence emerged in Mexico, its impact on the country and its northern neighbor, and the prospects for managing it. Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ruled in Tammany Hall fashion for seventy-nine years before losing the presidency in 2000 to the center-right National Action Party (PAN). Grayson focuses on drug wars, prohibition, corruption, and other antecedents that occurred during the PRI's hegemony. He illuminates the diaspora of drug cartels and their fragmentation, analyzes the emergence of new gangs, sets forth President Felipe Calderon's strategy against vicious criminal organizations, and assesses its relative success. Grayson reviews the effect of narcotics-focused issues in U.S.-Mexican relations. He considers the possibility that Mexico may become a failed state, as feared by opinion-leaders, even as it pursues an aggressive but thus far unsuccessful crusade against the importation, processing, and sale of illegal substances. Becoming a 'failed state' involves two dimensions of state power: its scope, or the different functions and goals taken on by governments, and its strength, or the government's ability to plan and execute policies. The Mexican state boasts an extensive scope evidenced by its monopoly over the petroleum industry, its role as the major supplier of electricity, its financing of public education, its numerous retirement and health-care programs, its control of public universities, and its dominance over the armed forces. The state has not yet taken control of drug trafficking, and its strength is steadily diminishing. This explosive book is thus a study of drug cartels, but also state disintegration.

The New public finance: responding to global challenges

The world's agenda of international cooperation has changed. The conventional concerns of foreign affairs, international trade, and development assistance, are increasingly sharing the political center stage with a new set of issues. These include trans-border concerns such as global financial stability and market efficiency, risk of global climate change, bio-diversity conservation, control of resurgent and new communicable diseases, food safety, cyber crime and e-commerce, control of drug trafficking, and international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Globalization and increasing porosity of national borders have been key driving forces that have led to growing interdependence and interlocking of the public domains--and therefore, public policy concerns--of countries, governments, private businesses, civil society, and people at large. Thus, new and different issues are now occupying top places on national policy agendas, and consequently, on the agendas of international negotiating forums. The policy approaches to global challenges are also changing. A proliferation and diversification of international cooperation efforts include focus on financing arrangements. Financing of international cooperation in most instances is a haphazard and non-transparent process and often seems to run parallel to international negotiations. There are many unfunded mandates and many-non-mandatory funds. To agree on and to achieve international economic goals, we need to understand how financing of international cooperation efforts actually works. Our understanding is hampered by two gaps: 1) lack of an integrated and cohesive theoretical framework; 2) lack of consolidated empirical and operational knowledge in the form of a comprehensive inventory of past, current and possible future (i.e. currently deliberated) financing mechanisms. This book reduces these two gaps and provides a guide to improve our ability to finance international cooperation.

Latest Trends in French Policy on Drugs

Present French policy with respect to drugs was defined in a government programme ratified at a meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for the Control of Drugs and Drug Abuse, held on September 14, 1995 and headed by the Prime Minister. The present government plan rests on three main lines of action, which will be examined here in their historical context. They are: reinforced control of drug trafficking, expansion of the existing health care and of prevention-related action, plus specific measures aimed at abusers under court supervision. This article draws the picture of past and current drug policy and legislation in France.

United Nations: General Assembly Resolutions on the Control of Drug Trafficking

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Journal Article REVIEWS Get access DRUGS AND INFORMATION CONTROL: THE ROLE OF MEN AND MANIPULATION IN THE CONTROL OF DRUG TRAFFICKING. By JERALD W. CLOYD. [Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1982. 195 pp. £23.95.] P. K. Manning P. K. Manning Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 23, Issue 3, July 1983, Pages 283–285, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047385 Published: 01 July 1983

Drugs and information control: The role of men and manipulation in the control of drug trafficking : by Jerald W. Cloyd. Greenwood Press (P.O. Box 5007, 88 Post Road West, Westport, Connecticut 06881), 1982, 195 pp., hardcover—$27.50

Drugs and information control: The role of men and manipulation in the control of drug trafficking : by Jerald W. Cloyd. Greenwood Press (P.O. Box 5007, 88 Post Road West, Westport, Connecticut 06881), 1982, 195 pp., hardcover—$27.50