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Drug Abuse
Effect of Drug Law Enforcement on Drug-Related Violence:
Evidence from a Scientific Review
Cover: Police officers drive past a burning police vehicle in the Pacific resort town of Zihuatanejo, Mexico, on February 25, 2009. Earlier, gunmen opened fire and hurled grenades at the patrol car, killing four officers. (AP photo / Felipe Salinas)
All images used with permission.
International Centre for Science in Drug Policy
Report working group: Dan Werb, Greg Rowell, Gordon Guyatt, Thomas Kerr, Julio Montaner, Evan Wood
CONTENTS
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“Violence in drug markets and in drug-producing areas such as Mexico is increasingly understood as a means for drug gangs to gain or maintain a share of the lucrative illicit drug market.”
Alleged gunmen and kidnappers are displayed to the media in front of seized guns and drugs in Tijuana, Mexico, on January 19, 2010. According to the army, the suspects were arrested during an operation in a house where soldiers seized the guns and drugs and also found an unidentified dead body. (AP photo / Guillermo Arias)
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