Number: 96-671
Title: International Drug Trade and Its Impact on the United States
Authors: Raphael Perl, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division; Jennifer A. Neisner, Education and Public Welfare Division; David L. Teasley, Government Division 
Abstract: The U.S. appetite for illicit drugs is met by a seemingly unending source for foreign supply. In the case of cocaine, which is grown, processed, and shipped to the United States from the Andean nations of Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru, U.S. policymakers are increasingly concerned over the rising prominence of Mexico as a transhipment zone for drugs entering the United States. The proliferation of foreign source drugs has a range of identifiable injurious effects in the United States.
Pages: 19
Date: Updated August 9, 1996