These two offices, recently been joined under the umbrella of the UN Office of Drug Control and Crime Prevention, complement America s own efforts to control international trafficking in narcotics and combat transnational organized crime. The United Nations Drug Control Program leads the United Nations effort to combat the global drug problem. These are the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961, the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971, and the Convention against Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988.
Drug abuse is a global problem affecting all countries and all levels of society.
Huge financial transactions involving illegal drug profits lead to pay-offs of national police. The deterioration of the rule of law and social cohesion can affect every facet of a country s economic and political life. The drug trade holds lucrative short-term profit potential, whether in an American city or a distant field. However, in the face of strenuous enforcement, long term profits from farming cannot be sustained. The monies were provided by the Department of State s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.