International Supply Reduction and
Demand Reduction
Organizations and Resources
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASEAN advocates a collective regional response to drug abuse and illegal drug traffic. The heads of the participating nations have called for "the intensification of cooperation among member states as well as with the relevant international bodies in the prevention and eradication of the abuse of narcotics and the illegal trafficking of drugs."
Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
INL advises the President, Secretary of State, other bureaus in the Department of State, and other departments and agencies within the U.S. Government on the development of policies and programs to combat international narcotics and crime.
Bureau of Justice Statistics, International Justice Statistics
Contains BJS publications, United Nations justice statistics, international datasets from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data, and links to related sites.
Drug Enforcement
Administration
The mission of the DEA is to enforce the controlled substance laws and regulations of the United States and to bring to justice those who are involved in the growing, manufacture, or distribution of controlled substances bound for the United States market. The DEA also recommends and supports non-enforcement programs aimed at reducing the availability of illicit controlled substances domestically and internationally.
Drug Free Australia (DFA)
DFA plays a key role as a community voice, staying in touch with every day
Australians—families and young people—via newsletters, community forums and the media, to ensure a clear message of healthy, drug free lifestyles is assured for generations to come.
Drug Use Monitoring in Australia
DUMA is a pilot project which seeks to measure drug use amongst those people who have been charged with a criminal offence. Data from DUMA will be used to examine issues such as the relationship between drugs and property and violent crime, monitor patterns of drug use across time, and help assess the need for drug treatment amongst the offender population.
El Paso Intelligence Center
EPIC is a multi-agency, round-the-clock electronic monitoring post on the U.S.-Mexican border that keeps tabs on drug-trafficking organizations and serves a national network of law enforcement agencies. Its primary focus is on drug trafficking activities along the Southwest border, but EPIC investigators and analysts from the fifteen or so participating agencies also collect and analyze tactical drug intelligence from other areas—including foreign countries—whose drug activities impact the United States.
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
The mission of the EMCDDA is to provide the Community and its Member States with objective, reliable and comparable information at the European level concerning drugs, drug addiction, and their consequences.
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
FinCEN supports law enforcement investigative efforts and fosters interagency and global cooperation against domestic and international financial crimes. FinCEN also provides U.S. policy makers with strategic analyses of domestic and worldwide money-laundering developments, trends, and patterns.
Inter-American Dialogue
The Inter-American Dialogue is a U.S. center for policy analysis, communication, and exchange in Western Hemisphere affairs. The Dialogue seeks to promote informed debate on hemispheric problems, advance opportunities for regional economic and political cooperation, expand channels of communication among the countries of the Americas, and bring fresh, practical proposals for action to the attention of governments, international institutions, and private organizations.
Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD)
CICAD, under the Organization of American States, is concerned with preventing the illicit production, distribution, trafficking, and consumption of narcotics and psychotropic substances within the Americas.
International Narcotics Control Board
The INCB deals with two aspects of drug control. With regard to licit manufacture, commerce and sale of drugs, the Board endeavors to ensure that adequate supplies are available for medical and scientific uses, and that leakages from licit sources to illicit traffic do not occur. With respect to illicit manufacture and trafficking of drugs, the Board identifies where weaknesses in the national and international control systems exist and contributes to correcting the situation.
Interpol: Drug Control
The Criminal Organizations and Drug Sub-Directorate is the central repository of professional and technical expertise in drug control within the Interpol framework. Essentially it acts as a clearinghouse for the collection, collation, analysis and dissemination of drug-related information. It is also monitors the drug situation on global basis, co-ordinates international investigations, and maintains liaison with the United Nations, its specialized Agencies and other international and regional organizations involved in the drug control activities.
National Institute of Justice International Center
This NIJ site opens an online vehicle for communicating globally about transnational crime that includes a searchable library linked to a local database and can also search the world wide web to provide the most complete research information available on these important topics.
New South Wales Office of Drug Policy
Provides leadership and assists in the development and implementation of a government-integrated approach to drug programs and policies in Australia.
Organization of American States
The OAS plays a central role in working toward many of the goals that are shared by the countries of North, Central, and South America, and the Caribbean. It brings together government leaders from member states to focus on education, justice, security and other issues that touch people's lives in tangible ways. One of its major components is the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), a technically autonomous agency intended to help eliminate the illicit traffic and abuse of drugs.
Shared Responsibility
Provides news updates, data, and other information about Colombia's fight against illegal drugs.
Summit of the Americas Center
The Summit of the Americas Center was established by the Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University to monitor the initiatives of the 1994 Miami Summit. A central element of the center's mission is to provide independent analysis of the impact, within Florida and without, of trade liberalization and other dimensions of hemispheric integration.
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (ODC)
The ODC is a global leader in the fight against illicit drugs and international crime. Established in 1997, ODC consists of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) and the United Nations Centre for International Crime Prevention (CICP).
United States Agency for International Development
USAID is the principal U.S. government agency extending assistance to countries recovering from disaster, trying to escape poverty, and engaging in democratic reforms.
United States Coast Guard
The Coast Guard's mission is to reduce the supply of drugs from the source by denying smugglers the use of air and maritime routes in the Transit Zone, a six million square mile area including the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and Eastern Pacific.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
The main mission of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is to prevent terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the United States. CBP also is responsible for apprehending individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally, stemming the flow of illegal drugs, and other diverse tasks.
