Using data, it helps draw conclusions about drugs as an issue needing intervention by government agencies around the world.
UNAIDs stated on its website "The use of illicit drugs needs to be understood as a social and health condition requiring sustained prevention, treatment, and care.
In that vein, he strongly advocates for supporting counter drug trafficking by building upon regional initiatives by providing technical assistance.
The first substantive piece of the report is the preface which is written by the executive director of the United Nations Drug Control Programme and gives readers insight into the purposes of publishing this research.
The first section is titled "Research Statistics and Trend Analysis of Illicit Drug Materials" and has several subsections.
[7] Opioids, which include both heroin and legal pain relievers, were responsible for around two-thirds of drug-related deaths in 2017, World Drug Report revealed on June 26, 2019.
The number for global opioids users contained within the World Drug Report, some 585,000 people, is more than double the previous estimate.
Another fundamental problem with the drug data they cite is that it reflects not the " trade flow but the estimate of turnover."
In their book Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts: The Politics of Numbers In Global Crime and Conflict,[10] Peter Andreas, Kelly M. Greenhill too argue that these figures may be, and in fact often are, distorted and manipulated.