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Illicit Drug Traffic: Implications for South American Source Countries*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Richard B. Craig
Richard B. Craig*
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Kent State University
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Students of the drug abuse problem may begin their analyses either at home or abroad. One observer might view the importing nation as the source of the problem, arguing that without its demand/ profit structure there would be no need for another country to grow, or to ship, illicit drugs. A second analyst might, with equal logic, contend that demand is a given, hence the producing country has the obligation, as a member of the family of nations and as signatory to international narcotics conventions, to eliminate domestic trafficking in, and production of, illegal narcotics. Regardless of whether one approaches the problem from the standpoint of either the chicken or the egg, the unassailable fact is that the illicit narcotraffic carries multiple impacts for the source countries.- social, economic and political.

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Research Article
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , Summer 1987 , pp. 1 - 34
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Copyright © University of Miami 1987

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This paper was originally presented at the conference on “International Drugs: Threat and Response,” held at the Defense Intelligence College, 2-3 June 1987, in Washington, DC.

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