20 September 1996 THE ILLEGAL INTERNATIONAL DRUG TRADE has undergone fundamental changes in the last five years. With the end of communist rule in Eastern Europe and the USSR, a huge swath of once all but hermetically sealed territory has become part of the now truly globalized traffic in opiates, cocaine, amphetamines, synthetic drugs, and […]

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