Controlling drug trafficking

One proposed programme of the recently established Association of Caribbean States (ACS), is the information and control of drug-trafficking activities within the region.

1. Can the supply lines to the main drug user countries be cut ? Take the UK, for example, which is possibly the most hopeful test case as it is an island. In Britain there are two hundred ports without any customs at all. Maybe between five or ten percent of drugs coming into the UK are detected, and that is the most optimistic figure.

1. Fighting war against drugs
2. Countering
3. Controlling narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances
4. Combatting trafficking

1. Reducing susceptibility of the impoverished to drug trafficking
2. Improving surveillance against drug trafficking

1. Reducing drug-related threats to national integrity
2. Reducing drug use
3. Fighting drug peddling
4. Controlling drug abuse

1. Treating drug addiction
2. Reducing demand for drugs
3. Improving drug law enforcement
4. Helping national drug regulatory authorities
5. Decriminalizing drugs
6. Combatting money laundering

1. Trafficking drugs

1. Growing narcotic crops

1. Preventing illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances

1. Susceptibility of the impoverished to drug trafficking
2. Substance abuse
3. Social costs of substance abuse
4. Inadequate drug control
5. Illicit drug trafficking
6. Government complicity in illegal activities
7. Drug smuggling
8. Drug dependence
9. Drug abuse by adolescents
10. Cultivation of illegal drugs

1. Trafficking
2. Double-standard