Eurasian Harm Reduction Network - EHRN Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN) / Евразийская сеть снижения вреда (ЕССВ)

New report of EHRN on the role played by the police in the street level drug trade
December 23, 2011
EHRN’s report “Drug Dealers, Drug Lords and Drug Warriors-cum-Traffickers: Drug Crime and the Narcotics Market in Tajikistan” presents research on the role played by the police, petty drug dealers and users in the street level drug trade in Tajikistan. Synthesizing information received from interviews with individual Tajik drug users, as well as lesser-known studies by local researchers, the study brings to light a number of interesting details of the street level drug trade in Tajikistan and discusses their implications for drug policies in the Central Asian region as a whole.

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