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Drug Control
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Drug control has been a major international concern since the first international conference on this issue was convened in 1909. The international community created a system for drug control under the supervision of the Leage of Nations and, since 1946, continued it through the United Nations.
The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs was established in 1946.
It is a functional commission under the ECOCOC with the mission to analyse
the world drug situation and strenghten the international control system.
International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) is the independent organ for the control of the implementation of the United Nations drug conventions.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), headquartered in Vienna, is the administrative centre for drug related issues. It supports the UN member states in the struggle against drug abuse and illicit trafficking and in implementing international drug treaties.
See also DagDok: section UNODC.
Documentation
Yearbook of the United Nations, Part Three: Economic and Social Development, Chapter XIV. International Drug Control provides an overview of the work of the United Nations system in the area of drug control with a detailed subject index. A complete collection of yearbooks is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva. Since October 2008 the complete full text collection of The United Nations Yearbooks is available online at http://unyearbook.un.org/.
For documentation from the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs, see DagDok, section Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
For documentation from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: see DagDok, section UNODC.
Reports and papers from the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) are posted at its website.
The full texts of drug conventions and resolutions are posted at the official web site of the United Nations Office
on Drugs and Crime, section UN Crime and Drug Conventions.
Databases and Indexes
Treatnet is a network of drug dependence treatment and rehabilitation worldwide.
The UN Library online catalogue UNBISnet contains reports, documents and articles related to UN activities with links to full texts for recent years. Subject search can be performed using relevant terms from the UNBIS THESAURUS.
Printed Indexes