The temporal relationship between drug supply indicators: an audit of international government surveillance systems.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Illegal drug use continues to be a major threat to community health and safety. We used international drug surveillance databases to assess the relationship between multiple long-term estimates of illegal drug price and purity.

Design

We systematically searched for longitudinal measures of illegal drug supply indicators to assess the long-term impact of enforcement-based supply reduction interventions.

Setting

Data from identified illegal drug surveillance systems were analysed using an a priori defined protocol in which we sought to present annual estimates beginning in 1990. Data were then subjected to trend analyses.

Main outcome measures

Data were obtained from government surveillance systems assessing price, purity and/or seizure quantities of i

SUBMITTER: Werb D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3787412 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature