Afghanistan Opium Survey 2008: Executive Summary, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, August 2008. The survey collects and analyzes information on the location and extent of opium poppy cultivation, on the potential production of opium, as well as other socioeconomic dimensions of the problem.
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Afghanistan Opium Winter Rapid Assessment Survey 2008, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, February 2008. This report presents an assessment of the likely opium cultivation trends for the upcoming harvest season in Afghanistan.
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Alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia 2006-07: findings from the National Minimum Data Set, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2008. This report provides a statistical overview of substance abuse treatment agencies and client profiles in Australia.
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La Amenaza del Narcotráfico en América, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, October 2008. This is the Spanish-language version of a report which provides an overview of the production, trafficking, and consumption of cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and amphetamine-type-substances in North America.
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Annual Report on Opiate Use Among Arrestees, 1998, National Institute of Justice, April 1999. Provides data on opiate use among adult and juvenile arrestees.
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The Availability of Southwest Asian Heroin in the United States: A Market Analysis, National Drug Intelligence Center, March 2007. This Market Analysis reports on the availability of Southwest Asian Heroin in the United States.
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The Brain & the Actions of Cocaine, Opiates, and Marijuana, National Institute on Drug Abuse, May 1998. A slide teaching packet for teachers and health professionals.
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A Collection of Articles That Address Heroin Prevention, Treatment and Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, June 2003. Included in this document are selections of topic-specific articles reprinted from NIDA’s research newsletter, NIDA NOTES.
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Crack, Powder Cocaine, and Heroin: Drug Purchase and Use Patterns in Six U.S. Cities, Office of National Drug Control Policy, National Institute of Justice, K. Jack Riley, December 1997. Presents information collected from recently arrested cocaine and heroin users from six cities in the U.S., highlighting information on how they obtained and used drugs.
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The DASIS Report: Characteristics of Primary Heroin Injection and Inhalation Admissions, 2002, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, December 2004. This report compares the characteristics of primary heroin admissions reporting the two major routes of administration, injection and inhalation.
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The DASIS Report: Facilities Operating Opioid Treatment Programs, 2005, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, December 2006. This report provides data on U.S. treatment facilities, both public and private, that operate an Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) certified by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
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The DASIS Report: Facilities Providing Methadone/LAAM Treatment to Clients with Opiate Addiction, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, December 2002. This report looks at facilities providing methadone or LAAM treatment to clients with opiate addiction as reported to the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services.
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The DASIS Report: Heroin - - Changes in How It Is Used, 1995-2005, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, April 2007. This report compares trends in primary heroin inhalation and injection treatment admissions in the U.S. between 1995 and 2005.
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The DASIS Report: Heroin -- Changes in How it is Used, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, July 2001. An overview of treatment data on the route of administration by heroin users.
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The DASIS Report: Heroin Treatment Admissions Increase: 1993-1999, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, January 2002. This report provides data on heroin treatment admissions and explores factors related to their increase in recent years.
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The DASIS Report: New Heroin Users Admitted to Treatment: 1992-2000, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, October 2003. This report examines data on new heroin users from 1992 to 2000.
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The DASIS Report: Non-Heroin Opiate Admissions, 2003, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, April 2006. This report explores differences among admissions for non-heroin opiates and admissions for heroin, using the data on demographic characteristics and substance abuse problems of those admitted for substance abuse treatment that are compiled annually in TEDS.
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The DASIS Report: Planned Methadone Treatment for Heroin Admissions, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, June 2003. This report compares heroin admissions where methadone treatment was planned with the 60 percent of heroin admissions where methadone treatment was not planned.
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The DASIS Report: Treatment Admissions for Injection Drug Use: 2003, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, September 2005. This report presents characteristics of these 237,000 injection drug admissions (primary and secondary) to treatment.
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The DASIS Report: Treatment Admissions for Injection of Multiple Drugs: 2000 , Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, December 2003. This fact sheet provides data on admissions that reported injecting more than one drug.
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The DAWN Report: Major Drugs of Abuse in ED Visits, 2002 Update, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, May 2004. This report examines geographic variation in emergency department (ED) visits related to cocaine, marijuana, heroin, and methamphetamine.
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The DAWN Report: Methadone-Involved Deaths in 8 Metropolitan Areas, 1997-2001, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, April 2004. This report focuses on deaths involving methadone in 8 metropolitan areas: Baltimore, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle.
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The DAWN Report: Opiate-Related Drug Misuse Deaths in 6 States, 2003, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, May 2006. This report examines the involvement of opiates in deaths related to drug misuse in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maryland, Utah, and New Mexico.
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Drug Abuse and Addiction Research: 25 Years of Discovery to Advance the Health of the Public, National Institute on Drug Abuse, September 1999. An overview of drug use in the U.S., including data sources, information on specific drugs, and current research to treat drug addiction.
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Drug Control: U.S. Heroin Control Efforts in Southeast Asia, General Accounting Office, Jess T. Ford, September 1996. Congressional testimony on heroin trafficking from Southeast Asia to the U.S.
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Drugs and Human Performance Fact Sheets, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, B. Logan and J. Couper, April 2004. This collection of fact sheets represent the conclusions of a panel of international experts on drug-impaired driving and include the state of current scientific knowledge in the area of drugs and human performance for 16 drugs.
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Drugs of Abuse: 2005 Edition, Drug Enforcement Administration, 2005. This report provides an overview of commonly abused legal and illegal drugs and their scheduling.
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Estimating the Flow of Illegal Drugs Through Ukraine, Final Conference Paper, NIJ-sponsored, September 2001. This report explains the current state of drug trafficking and production in the Ukraine, especially as it relates heroin.
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Heroin Abuse and Addiction, National Institute on Drug Abuse, May 2005. An overview of the use, effects, and treatment of heroin.
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Heroin Facts & Figures, Office of National Drug Control Policy, September 2008. This online resource provides comprehensive data on heroin with links to source materials.
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Heroin Fast Facts , National Drug Intelligence Center, March 2003. This brochure provides a brief overview of heroin.
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Heroin in the Caribbean Region, United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, 2002. This fact sheet provides an overview of data on heroin use in the Caribbean Region.
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Heroin in the Northeast: A Regional Report, National Drug Intelligence Center, August 2003. This strategic assessment addresses the heroin situation in the Northeast region and contains findings derived through detailed analysis of the most recently available reporting from law enforcement, intelligence, and public health agencies.
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Illicit Drug Trends in Afghanistan, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, June 2008. This report provides an overview of the drug situation in Afghanistan and provides data on drug production, trafficking, enforcement, and abuse.
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Illicit Drug Trends in Central Asia, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, April 2008. This report provides an overview of the drug situation in Central Asia and provides data on drug production, trafficking, enforcement, and abuse.
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Illicit Drug Trends in Pakistan, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, April 2008. This report provides an overview of the drug situation in Pakistan and provides data on drug production, trafficking, enforcement, and abuse.
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Illicit Drug Trends in the Russian Federation, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, April 2008. This report provides an overview of the drug situation in Russian Federation and provides data on drug production, trafficking, enforcement, and abuse.
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Impact of the heroin shortage: Additional research, Australia National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund, 2006. The aims of this study were to: assess what impact the heroin shortage had on initiation to heroin use; examine whether the associated increase in cocaine use led to an increase in violent crime and/or prostitution; provide a more detailed and analytical analysis of fatal and non-fatal drug overdose; and provide a closer examination of the impact of law enforcement operations.
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InfoFacts: Heroin, National Institute on Drug Abuse, July 2008. This resource provides information on the use, effects, and treatment options for heroin.
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Information Bulletin: Methadone Abuse Increasing, National Drug Intelligence Center, September 2003. This Information Bulletin addresses a rise in methadone abuse and examines the methods by which abusers acquire this drug.
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Laos Opium Survey 2005, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, June 2005. The survey collects and analyzes information on the location and extent of opium poppy cultivation, on the potential production of opium, as well as other socioeconomic dimensions of the problem.
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Methadone Fact Sheet, Drug Policy Information Clearinghouse, Erin Steiner Broekhuysen, April 2000. An overview of issues dealing with methadone treatment.
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Monitoring the Future National Results on Adolescent Drug Use: Overview of Key Findings, 2007, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2008. This report presents trends in the use of licit and illicit drugs, as well as trends in the levels of perceived risk and personal disapproval associated with each drug.
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Monitoring the Future National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2007. Volume I: Secondary School Students, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2008. This report provides data on the prevalence and frequency of drug use among American secondary school students as well as historical trends in use by students in this population.
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Monitoring the Future National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2007. Volume II: College Students and Adults Ages 19-45, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2008. This report provides findings on the substance use and related behaviors of several segments of the adult population. It also contains findings on attitudes and beliefs about drugs, as well as on several particularly salient dimensions of their social environments.
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Myanmar Opium Survey 2005, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, November 2005. The survey collects and analyzes information on the location and extent of opium poppy cultivation, on the potential production of opium, as well as other socioeconomic dimensions of the problem.
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National Forensic Laboratory Information System (NFLIS) 2007 Annual Report, Drug Enforcement Administration, June 2008. This report presents the results of drug cases analyzed by forensic laboratories in 2007 from the NFLIS.
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The NSDUH Report: Demographic and Geographic Variations in Injection Drug Use, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, July 2007. This report examines variation in the rates of past year injection drug use among persons aged 12 or older by gender, age, race/ethnicity, county type and region, using 2002 through 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) data.
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The NSDUH Report: Injection Drug Use Update: 2002 and 2003, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, April 2005. This report provides data on injection drug use, including information on the sharing of needles.
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The NSDUH Report: Nonmedical Oxycodone Users: A Comparison with Heroin Users, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, January 2005. This report focuses on the characteristics of NSDUH respondents reporting nonmedical oxycodone use and respondents reporting heroin use.
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The OAS Report: A Day in the Life of American Adolescents: Substance Use Facts, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, October 2007. This report presents facts about adolescent substance use, including initiation, and receipt of treatment for substance use "on an average day."
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Opium Economy in Afghanistan: An International Problem, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, February 2003. This report examines Afghanistan’s opium economy in order to understand its dynamics, the reasons for its success, its beneficiaries and victims, and the problems it has caused domestically and abroad.
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Opium Poppy Cultivation in South East Asia: Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, October 2007. The survey collects and analyzes information on the location and extent of opium poppy cultivation, on the potential production of opium, well as other socioeconomic dimensions of the problem.
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The Partnership Attitude Tracking Study (PATS): Teens 2008 Report, Partnership for a Drug-Free America, February 2009. This annual study tracks the elaborate and complex attitudes people have about illegal drugs.
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The Price and Purity of Illicit Drugs: 1981-2007, Office of National Drug Control Policy, July 2008. This report extends, improves, and augments previous estimates of trends in the price and purity of five major illicit drugs: powder cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, d-methamphetamine, and marijuana.
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Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2005, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, March 2006. This report analyzes crop substitution programs which seek to replace opium poppy and coca leaf crops with legal cash crops.
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Serie de Reportes, La Heroina: Abuso y Adiccion, National Institute on Drug Abuse, January 2003. The Spanish language version of Heroin: Abuse and Addiction.
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Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade, Drug Policy Information Clearinghouse, May 2006. The Street Terms database contains over 2,000 street terms that refer to specific drug types or drug activity.
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Technical Report for the Price and Purity of Illicit Drugs: 1981-2007, Office of National Drug Control Policy, July 2008. The purpose of this technical report is to provide detailed documentation of all programming and statistical activities involved in the construction of the price and purity series presented in Price and Purity of Illicit Drugs: 1981-2007.
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The Threat of Narco-Trafficking in the Americas, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, October 2008. This report provides an overview of the production, trafficking, and consumption of cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and amphetamine-type-substances in North America.
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U.S. Counternarcotics Strategy for Afghanistan, U.S. State Department, August 2007. This paper evaluates the current counternarcotics strategy for Afghanistan, examines issues, obstacles, and lessons learned and presents a way forward on key elements of the strategy, including public information, alternative development, poppy elimination/eradication, interdiction and justice reform.
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