Abstract
Although the United States customarily assigns to the Latin American nations, or at least the Andean cocaine-producing countries, a major portion of the responsibility for US drug problems, it appears that epistemologically the opposite is true. Demand for cocaine in the USA and Western Europe, and for heroin in the USA, are probably the principal determinants of Latin America’s drug production problems. This chapter examines the available evidence on drug use in the USA and Western Europe to assess whether consumption is increasing.
This chapter is based on research supported by grants from the Ford and Alfred Sloan Foundations to RAND’s Drug Policy Research Center. I would like to acknowledge research assistance from Gina Hilger.
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Reuter, P. (1998). Foreign Demand for Latin American Drugs: The USA and Europe. In: Joyce, E., Malamud, C. (eds) Latin America and the Multinational Drug Trade. Institute of Latin American Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26047-8_3
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