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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

TitleAuthorsSourceLinkYear
Recommended Methods for the Profiling of Heroin and Cocaine – Manual for use by National Drug Analysis LaboratoriesLaboratory and Scientific ServicesUnited Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; 84pp; 2023www.unodc.org/unodc/en/scientists/methods-for-impurity-profiling-of-heroin-and-cocaine_new.html2023
The Hawala System: Its operations and misuse by opiate traffickers and migrant smugglersHamid Azizi, Eric Dante Gutierrez, Michael Osman, Monika Roszkowska, Murat YildizUNODC; 92pp; 2023www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2023/September/we-dont-ask-questions_-hawala-payment-system-vulnerable-to-use-by-organized-crime-groups--including-opiate-traffickers-and-migrant-smugglers.html2023
Understanding Illegal Methamphetamine Manufacture in AfghanistanUNODC Research BriefUNODC; 60pp; August 2023www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2023/September/unodc_-methamphetamine-trafficking-in-and-around-afghanistan-expanding-rapidly-as-heroin-trade-slows.html2023
World Drug Report 2023UNODC; June 2023www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/world-drug-report-2023.html2023
Psychotropic Substances 2022International Narcotics Control BoardUN, Vienna; 604pp; 2023www.incb.org/incb/en/psychotropics/technical-report.html2023
Global Report on Cocaine 2023 – Local dynamics, global challengesUNODC; 184pp; March 2023www.unodc.org/unodc/frontpage/2023/March/cocaine-trafficking-diversifying-through-new-hubs-and-groups--with-global-supply-at-record-levels--says-new-report-from-the-united-nations-office-on-drugs-and-crime.html2023
Analysis of opiate stamps seized in the Indian Ocean 2017-2021UNODC; 36pp; 2022www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/AOTP/Drug_Stamp_Report_Online_1.pdf2022
Myanmar Opium Survey 2022 – Cultivation, Production, and ImplicationsUNODC; 60pp; 2023www.unodc.org/unodc/frontpage/2023/January/opium-poppy-cultivation-estimates-increase-in-myanmar-in-2022-against-backdrop-of-more-sophisticated-production_-unodc-report.html2023
Opium cultivation in Afghanistan – Latest findings and emerging threatsUnited Nations Office on Drugs and CrimeUNODC; 23pp; November 2022www.unodc.org/documents/crop-monitoring/Afghanistan/Opium_cultivation_Afghanistan_2022.pdf2022
Illicit Financial Flows from Trafficking of Opiates Along the Northern RouteResearch and Trend Analysis BranchUNODC; 36pp; September 2022www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/IFF/IFF_Afghanistan_2022.pdf2022
Cocaine Insights 4 – Brazil in the regional and transatlantic cocaine supply chain: The impact of COVID-19Gabriel Andreuccetti, Alan Arroyo, Lidia Barbosa, Chloé Carpentier, Jairo Hidalgo, Angela Me, Claudio Monteiro, Barbara Souto, Antoine Vella, Yulia VorobyevaUNODC; 2022www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/the-cocaine-market.html2022
UNODC – World Drug Report 2022UNODC; 2022www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/world-drug-report-2022.html2022
Synthetic Drugs in East and Southeast Asia – Latest developments and challengesGlobal Synthetics Monitoring: Analyses, Reporting and TrendsUNODC; 36pp; 2022www.unodc.org/unodc/frontpage/2022/June/unodc-report_-over-one-billion-methamphetamine-tablets-seized-in-east-and-southeast-asia-in-2021-as-the-regional-drug-trade-continues-to-expand.html2022
Afghanistan Opium Survey 2021 – Cultivation and ProductionResearch and Trend Analysis BranchUNODC; 56pp; March 2022www.unodc.org/documents/crop-monitoring/Afghanistan/Afghanistan_Opium_Survey_2021.pdf2022
Recommended methods for the identification and analysis of cannabis and cannabis productsUNODC; 82pp; March 2022www.unodc.org/unodc/en/scientists/recommended-methods-for-the-identification-and-analysis-of-cannabis-and-cannabis-products.html2022
Women in the cocaine supply chain; Cocaine Insights 3UNODC; March 2022www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/cocaine/Cocaine_Insights3_2022.pdf2022
Recommended methods for the Identification and Analysis of Synthetic Cathinones in Seized Materials (revised and updated)UNODC; 2020www.unodc.org/unodc/en/scientists/recommended-methods-for-the-identification-and-analysis-of-synthetic-cathinones-in-seized-materials.html2020
Staff skill requirements and equipment recommendations for forensic science laboratoriesUnited Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Laboratory and Scientific Section; 138pp; 2011www.unodc.org/documents/scientific/Ebook_STNAR_02Rev1_E.pdf2011
Guide for the development of forensic document examination capacityUnited Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Laboratory and Scientific Section; 2010www.unodc.org/unodc/en/scientists/guide-for-the-development-of-forensic-document-examination-capacity.html2010
Afghanistan’s ‘tablet K’ – a forensic insight into an emerging synthetic drug marketUnited Nations Office on Drugs and CrimeGlobal Smart Update; 26; January 2022www.unodc.org/unodc/en/scientists/publications-smart.html2022
Digest of Cyber Organized CrimeUnited Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; 2021sherloc.unodc.org/cld/en/st/resources/publications/Digest-of-Cyber-Organized-Crime2021
Current NPS Threats; Volume 4Simon Elliott, TIAFT et alUnited Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; November 2021www.unodc.org/LSS/Announcement/Details/f1fd2093-b818-4550-9f6c-9d8a96ad54112021
Digest of cases of international cooperation in criminal matters involving the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime as a legal basisUnited Nations Office on Drugs and CrimeUnited Nations, Vienna, 2021. 172ppwww.unodc.org/documents/organized-crime/tools_and_publications/Digest_Cases_International_Cooperation_UNTOC_Legal_Basis.pdf2021
Synthetic Drugs and New Psychoactive Substances in Latin America and the Caribbean – 2021United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC); 56pp; 2021www.unodc.org/unodc/en/scientists/2021-synthetic-drugs-and-new-psychoactive-substances-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.html2021
Guidelines for the safe handling of synthetic opioids for law enforcement and customs officersUnited Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; 115pp; 2021www.unodc.org/unodc/scientists/guidelines-for-the-safe-handling-of-synthetic-opioids-for-law-enforcement-and-customs-officers.html2021
Cocaine – a spectrum of productsUnited Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; 52pp; October 2021www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/cocaine/Cocaine_Insights_2021_2.pdf2021
The reach of nationally linked trafficking groups across Afghan opiate trafficking routesNODC Drugs Monitoring Platform Brief; 2021www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Afghanistan/trafficking_groups_afghan_opiate_trafficking_routes.pdf2021
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