The Contemporary Drug Problem: Characteristics, Patterns and Driving Factors
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Rapid socio-economic changes in recent history have created the environment in which the drug problem as we know it has taken shape and started to exhibit the characteristics mentioned above. Over the past decade, established illicit drug markets in the industrialized countries have shown signs of stabilization, while the growth of illicit drug use has continued to accompany socio-economic transitions in developing countries.
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