The global Afghan opium trade
Subtitle: a threat assessment, 2011
By: [research and report preparation, Hakan Demirbüken, Hayder Mili, Renée Le Cussan]..
Contributors: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Studies and Threat Analysis Section; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Country Office Afghanistan; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Regional Office for Central Asia
Publisher: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Vienna
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9789211482638
Subjects: Opium trade; Drug traffic; Drug control; International cooperation; Transnational crime; Prevention
Notes: "July 2011"--Cover.

"This report was prepared by UNODC Studies and Threat Analysis Section (STAS), Division for Policy Analysis and Public Affairs (DPA), in the framework of UNODC Trends Monitoring and Analysis Programme/Afghan Opiate Trade Project, with the collaboration of the UNODC Country Office in Afghanistan and the UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia"--T.p. verso.

"Sales no.: E.11.XI.11"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also availabe online.
Table of contents: title: Afghan opiate trafficking. Current state of the global opiate market ; Afghanistan : the origin of opiates ; Major transnational flows of Afghan opiates ; Case study : opiate trafficking through Baluchistan and FATA ; Policy implications; title: Acetic anhydride trafficking. The current state of illicit acetic anhydride market ; Acetic anydride trafficking to Afghanistan ; Getting to market in Afghanistan; title: Annex 1. Methodology; title: Annex 2. Substances controlled under the 1988 convention.