The international drug control system is one of the oldest consensus-based multilateral systems in existence. While the use of psychoactive substances itself extends back many centuries, today's international drug control system is rooted in efforts made a century ago to address the largest substance abuse problem the world has ever faced: the Chinese opium epidemic. The present volume is not a diplomatic history, it aims only to present the basic development of the modern drug control system: why and how it arose, how it impacted drug production and consumption and its legacy for present and future international drug control efforts.
- ISBN13 9789211482454
- Publish Date 23 November 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint United Nations
- Format Paperback
- Pages 104
- Language English