Priorities for New Methodological Developments in Drug Supply Data
Guidelines and methodologies for improving drug supply data analysis, including supply indicators, price and purity data, cultivation practices, clandestine laboratories, and wastewater analysis. Explore methods to enhance understanding of drug markets and illicit activities through advanced data collection techniques.
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Working group A.2 Priorities for new methodological developments - drug supply data Antoine Vella
Guidelines on supply indicators Guidelines on supply indicators Seizure data o counting rules for seizure cases o definitional issues concerning provenance (country of production/manufacture versus departure), transit and destination o recording and providing microdata (IDS) o how to aggregate information on provenance o classification issues Price and purity data o how to collect price data o how to aggregate price and purity data (typical values, common ranges) o purity-adjusted prices Putting it together o Differentiating retail and wholesale ; breakdowns by market level o Adjusting seizures for purity o What does all this tell us? Open question: Estimating the quantity of drug present in the illicit market
Methodologies for cultivation, production and manufacture Methodologies for cultivation, production and manufacture Illicit crop monitoring of outdoor cultivation o best practices to consolidate experience of multiple joint monitoring projects with countries o how should a country go about setting up a crop monitoring programme? Cannabis indoor versus outdoor cultivation o how to quantify indoor cultivation and associated production Recording and collecting data on clandestine laboratories o Definitional issues o Classification issues Open question: synthetic drugs
Wastewater analysis Wastewater analysis Relies on detecting the residues of drugs and drug metabolites in sewage treatment facilities Developed mainly as a technique to glean information on drug use in urban centres, but can also be applied to detect residues of chemical by-products of illicit manufacture Numerous challenges: catchment areas, numerous chemical/pharmacological parameters, variability of metabolisms. Highly technical and interdisciplinary area. Work by groups based in Americas, Africa, East and South-East Asia, Europe, Oceania. Need for consolidation of the experience of different regions into international guidelines to further support the production of metrics based on wastewater analysis To what extent can wastewater analysis be used to enhance information gaps on drug supply?
