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Drug Use Trends: Global Prevalence, Deaths, and Interventions

This report provides an overview of drug use trends globally, including annual prevalence rates, drug-related deaths, and interventions. It also discusses the challenges and key elements of success for alternative development programs. The report suggests extending the alternative development approach to communities affected by other illegal activities.

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Drug Use Trends: Global Prevalence, Deaths, and Interventions

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  1. World Drug Report 2015 Advanced Briefing to Member States 18 June 2015

  2. Replies from 100 Member States and territories.

  3. Replies from 98 Member States and territories.

  4. Drug use

  5. Trends in the annual prevalence of drug use, 2009-2013 Source: UNODC, responses to annual report questionnaire. Note: Based on the estimated percentage of adults (aged 15-64) who have used the substance in the past year

  6. Prison annual prevalence general population 0.4% 5.2% 3.8% 0.3% 0.4% 0.7%

  7. Drug use

  8. Global average

  9. Drug related deaths linked to opioid abuse in the USA

  10. Gender

  11. Skills training programmes for students and parents Pre-school intervention

  12. Philosophy of chronic care versus acute care: continuity of interventions The impact of the intervention can be evaluated only DURING the intervention and NOT after Is drug treatment better than no treatment? Effective treatment typically incorporates many components — pharmacotherapy, behavioural therapy and social support. The scientific evidence is clear that the best available treatments for individuals with drug dependence are those that are ongoing, able to address multiple problems in numerous life domains — such as medical and psychiatric symptoms and social instability — and are well integrated into the community, making them available and accessible to such individuals.

  13. Global trends in main drug supply indicators, 2005-2014

  14. Global seizures, by drug and region (number of cases) 2005-2008 and 2009-2013

  15. Mode of transportation reported in individual drug seizure cases, 2006-2008 and 2009-2014

  16. OpiatesKey figures

  17. Global potential opium production

  18. Opiates

  19. CocaineKey figures

  20. Global Coca bush cultivation

  21. Cocaine

  22. Cannabis Key figures

  23. Prevalence of past-year marijuana use (aged 12 or older) in the United States 2006-2013

  24. Synthetic Drugs Key figures

  25. Methamphetamine flows

  26. Controlled drugs and NPS

  27. NPS

  28. Geographical location of Alternative Development

  29. Challenges of alternative development Drivers of illicit cultivation • No single factor and location/ household specific • Characteristics of the illicit crop (agronomic, durability, profit) • Infrastructures and socio-economic opportunities • Environment • Rule of Law and governance • Marginalization • Poverty • Isolated areas • Limited government control • Insecurity

  30. Impact of Alternative Development

  31. Key elements of success for alternative development • Long-term political and financial support • Income-generating alternatives • Marketing of products of alternative development • Land tenure and the sustainable management and use of land • Local ownership and community participation • Focus on women

  32. Assistance Committed by OECD donors

  33. Conclusions Alternative development (AD) is in a constant state of flux; success has often been a result of piloting new and more sophisticated approaches. National strategies vary considerably, but most address food security and quality of life Success is still mainly viewed in the context of reducing illicit cultivation– but impact of programmes is more broadly assessed, in term of MDG indicators Sustainable Development Goals add elements of rule of law, governance and environmental protection to the traditional pillars of socioeconomic development. A new framework for AD? AD approach to be extended beyond illicit drug cultivation into communities affected by other illegal activities (illegal mining, wildlife and forest crimes)?

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