I am writing a reseach paper on drug trafficking and I.
Master’s Dissertation Security and health threats posed by drug trafficking from Afghanistan to the EU and the Russian Federation and mechanisms of cooperation in combating it: a case-study analysis of the current and future development of the 'Caucasus Route' Done by Romina Bulgaru Supervisor: Yulia Nikitina Moscow 2017.
The illegal transfer of drugs especially hard drugs from one place to another is (a) drug trafficking (b) human trafficking (c) drug abuse (d) drug dependence. All are examples of hard drugs except (a) heroin (b) cocaine (c) paracetamol (d) marijuana.
Drug trafficking is a major source of revenue for organised crime groups, many of whom are involved in other forms of serious crime such as firearms, modern slavery and immigration crime. Action against drug trafficking therefore has a much wider disruptive impact on organised criminal activity.
Drug trafficking is often associated with other forms of crime, such as money laundering or corruption. Trafficking routes can also be used by criminal networks to transport other illicit products. As criminals devise ever-more creative ways of disguising illegal drugs for transport, law enforcement faces challenges in detecting such concealed.
Drug trafficking is a key part of this research. Further information can be found in the yearly World Drug Report. At current levels, world heroin consumption (340 tons) and seizures represent an annual flow of 430-450 tons of heroin into the global heroin market.
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Over the past decades, there has been concerted global effort to track illicit drug production, drug trafficking as well as governments' interventions on illicit drug markets. Therefore, the available data on cultivation and seizures of controlled drugs and on trends of drug use provides a useful overview of the extent of drug trafficking in.