The focus of this article addresses drug use and drug markets in Northern Ireland against
the backdrop of the most recent Irish political conflict, eg, 1969 to the present. Between 1969 …

Considerable emphasis has been placed in Northern Ireland as elsewhere upon providing
an estimate of the prevalence and pattern of drug misuse, yet despite the importance of this …

The resolution of political conflict has led some to suggest that Northern Ireland will now face
a range of social problems that have been ignored or suppressed by the Troubles. One such …

The cease-fires of 1994 marked the transition of Northern Ireland toward peace. Local
media, public perception, and claims by “drug authorities” suggest an increase in drug use …

The conclusion that there are links–albeit complex ones–between some forms of illicit drug
use and crime has been consistently reached by many studies conducted across different …

This article analyses 10 years (2004–2014) of An Garda Síochána controlled drug data to
investigate the impact of economic recession and globalization on the Irish illicit drug …

During the 1980s illegal drug use in Britain appeared to be increasing at an alarming rate
and spreading across the country on an unprecedented scale. An apparent growth in the …

This study is intended as a survey of what is known about the large and unprecedented
changes to the Australian drug market in 2000 and 2001. It focuses on those changes. They …

This article questions conceptualisations and attributions that record the emergence of
Australia's first national drug campaign as a necessary and inevitable governmental …

Australia experienced extraordinary and unprecedented changes to its illicit drug market
from the end of 2000. A 'heroin drought'made the media headlines and grabbed the …