Synthetic Drugs Trafficking in Three European Cities

Synthetic Drugs Trafficking in Three European Cities
Major Trends and the Involvement of Organised Crime
TNI/Gruppo Abele/IECAH, Turin, March 2003

This publication gathers the outcomes of the project with the same title, which investigated three urban synthetic drug markets at a different stage of development: Amsterdam, Barcelona and Turin. The study - the first of this type at European level - outlines a composite picture which clearly indicates the presence of rather flexible and dynamic actors. The wide use of primary sources, altogether the adoption of qualitative interpretative tools, contributed to shed some light on a phenomenon which is still poorly investigated both at national and international levels.

• Content:
  
  Section 1: Synthetic Drug Trafficking in Amsterdam, by Tom Blickman, Dirk J. Korf, Dina Siegel and Damián Zaitch
  Section 2: The Synthetic Drug Market in Barcelona, by Virginia Montañes, Mila Barruti, Joan Pallarés Gómez and José Luis Domínguez Figueirido
  Section 3: The Synthetic Drug Market in Turin, by Manuela Mareso, Monica Massari, Paoloa Monzini and Maurizio Veglio
  Section 4: Comparative Executive Summary, by Monica Massari

The project includes an on-line clearinghouse on the issue of synthetic drugs: European Market Ecstasy Trafficking.

Read the review by Klaus von Lampe.

See also:

• Ecstasy in the city: Synthetic drug markets in Europe. The outcomes of a field research, by Monica Massari in Crime, Law and Social Change, Volume 44, Number 1, August 2005
• The Ecstasy Industry: Exploring the Global Market, TNI Briefing Series 2004/9, December 2004