Drug andsubsetance abuse culture is a serious problem acquiring an epidemic form and proportion engulfing the younger generation all over the world due to various psychological, social, cultural, economic and political factors. The unprecedented spurt of drug production, consumption and trafficking in many parts of the globe has now become a well-organised billion dollar ’business’ To cope with these multidimensional problems arising out of this drug abuse culture the government has evolved several demand and supply reduction strategies and programmes within the national and international legal framework. All these strategies attempted at various levels have impacted the problems in varying degrees in the proliferation and control in different areas like prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, production, consumption and trafficking. The relationship between HIV/AIDS and the intravenous drug use is not uncommon now. Moreover, emerging problems of Nacro-terrorism and drug trafficking are now serious issues which warrant urgent attention and policy directions. Unfortunately, in spite of all the mechanisms developed so far they could not check totally the proliferation due to many inherent weaknesses in many of these control strategies. The area is fertile for serious academic discourse both in terms of theory and practice in not only understanding the problems in their entirety but also in evolving appropriate demand and supply reduction mechanisms. This pioneering volume consisting of sixteen research articles addresses some of these problems. The complexity of the problem has been analysed from an inter-disciplinary approach. The papers are written by well-known social scientists, researchers and enforcement persons.
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