Responding to Men in Black, ISDD’s Nicholas Dorn says that integrating the voices of the intelligence agencies into the formation of a UK drug strategy will be a challenge and an opportunity for the new Drug Czar. Making sense of…
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Druglink article 1997 – Men in black by Gerry Rice and Terry Thomas
Britain’s intelligence services are now involved in the ‘war on drugs’ to an unprecedented degree. This has led to tensions with the police and the National Criminal Intelligence Service, despite the partnership which the 1996 Security Service Act formalised. Behind…
Druglink article 1997 – A shattered peace: heroin, market forces and the war in Yugoslavia by Roger Lewis
With the first convicted war criminal in Europe for fifty years now behind bars, it is time to review the impact that the Yugoslav war has had on the infamous ‘Balkan route’. Did the war smother the heroin trade, or…
Druglink article 1994 – The crack report by Harry Shapiro
Enforcement statistics suggest a steep rise in crack use in recent years but not to epidemic levels. Crack is commonly used in some inner city areas, generally on an irregular and non-dependent basis. The connection with black people is stronger…
Druglink article 1992 – Rocky path to Europol by Bill Hebenton and Terry Thomas
International drug trafficking has been the major rationale for broadening and intensifying international police cooperation and information-sharing. Britain’s new National Criminal Intelligence System is planned to cooperate with similar organisations in other countries but there is concern that the structures…
Druglink article 1991 – Abby, the ecstasy dealer by Nicholas Dorn, Karim Murji and Nigel South
Research involving interviewing drug traffickers and police was used to construct a rough typology of UK trafficking firms as a means of organising the research data. ‘Abby’ – a former ecstasy dealer – fits into the ‘Trading Charities’ type. Not…
Druglink article 1990 – Illicit drugs and the world economy by the UN information service
Why a world economy that gives us cheap coffee also gives us cocaine. The rapid decline in raw commodity prices and accumulation of foreign debt in developing countries in the 1980s lies behind the escalating illicit drug production and trafficking…
Druglink article 1989 – Crack stories from the States
What US agent Stutman told Britain’s chief constables about crack ‘scared the hell’ out of them. It also alarmed the Home Secretary and was uncritically regurgitated in lurid tabloid news splashes. Here’s part of what he said. Crack stories from…
Druglink article 1988 – Going for the money by Jane Goodsir
The Drug Trafficking Offences Act in practice. As the first cases under the Drug Trafficking Offences Act come to court, it’s becoming clear that a wide circle of the defendant’s contacts may be affected. Going for the money (PDF)
Druglink article 1988 – Cocaine arrives as heroin recedes
Home Office statistics suggest the late 1980’s may be a turning point for both heroin and cocaine use in the UK, though there are fears the drop in heroin statistics may be a temporary lull as hard-hit traffickers re-group. Cocaine…