Abstract
Drugs are a consumer product for which there is a simple relationship between demand and supply. Without consumer demand there is no economic or practical sense in establishing or maintaining supply networks, and it is against these distribution networks that enforcement agencies almost exclusively direct their operations. However any disruption of drug supply networks as a result of police operations can only be transient — consumer-driven supply networks rapidly reform or mutate to meet unchanged or displaced consumer demand.
‘I’m surprised that it took them so long… It was the worst kept secret in the world that it [the dance club] was a monster drug party!’
(Arrested raver)
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Fraser, A. and M. George (1988) ‘Changing trends in drug use’, Drugs Arena, 6, pp. 14–19.
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© 1996 Nicholas Dorn, Jørgen Jepsen and Ernesto Savona
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Fraser, A., George, M. (1996). Southern England, Drugs and Music: Policing the Impossible?. In: Dorn, N., Jepsen, J., Savona, E. (eds) European Drug Policies and Enforcement. Confederation of European Economic Associations Conference Volumes. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24619-9_5
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