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Examines changing nature of international narcotics trafficking by organized criminal networks; view that national countermeasures have been inadequate. Summaries in English p. 432 and Spanish p. 446. Coca/cocaine, opium/heroin, cannabis/marihuana, and synthetic drugs.

Contrary to other European and to North American researchers, French researchers did not address very often the question of the relation between drug abuse and crime, allowing political discourse and its approximations to develop freely. The work presented here first gives an empirical illustration of the biases attached to observations realised in a population selected by the criminal justice system. Second it proposes a measure of the proportion of illegal drug users within the criminal population. The measure yielded is far from the 50% of the crime usually attributed to drug addicts.