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Explore Mexico's dual-purpose approach to drug control, emphasizing a shift to a public health-oriented strategy. Learn about their contributions, achievements, and future direction in addressing drug use through supply reduction and demand reduction.
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Mexico´s contribution to a public-health based approach to drug use at the multilateral level Mauricio Zapata Zaldívar Director for Crime, Corruption and Drugs Prevention Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
In its origin, a dual purpose was established in the international drug control regime
Learning lessons After decades of implementing policies that focused only on a prohibitionist and punitive approach, the dynamics of the phenomenon made it necessary to enrich the responses Supplyreduction Demandreduction
Mexico’sremarks at the62nd session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Thankyou Mauricio Zapata Zaldívar Director for Crime, Corruption and Drugs Prevention Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico dgonunidas@sre.gob.mx mzapataz@sre.gob.mx