Drugs and the Environment

The Impact of Drugs on the Environment - Dianova International

The environmental impact of illicit crop cultivation and drug manufacturing is relatively small compared to that of legal agriculture or pharmaceutical sector.

Deforestation, monocultures, pollution of waters and soil, as well as the high carbon footprint of indoor cultivation, are some of the most prominent effects of ...

World Drug Report 2022 - UNODC

... drugs harm the environment are cultivation and production and drug use. The negative environmental impact of illicit drugs may also have ...

The Environmental Impact of Growing Drugs | Gateway Foundation

Drug production leaves its mark on the environment in several ways. It results in large-scale carbon emissions, water depletion, pollution and ...

DEA Museum Presents! Illegal Drugs and the Environment

However, the public is largely unaware that illegal drug production often devastates the environment. The cultivation of plants that are the ...

5 ways that drugs damage the environment – DW – 10/07/2020

Drugs like cannabis, cocaine, opium and ecstasy have catastrophic environmental impacts that range from deforestation to land sinking.

Environmental impact of synthetic drug production - EUDA

The Netherlands and Belgium are known major producers of synthetic psychoactive drugs such as MDMA, amphetamine and, more recently, ...

Environmental impact of illicit drug production - Wikipedia

Due to the clandestine nature of illicit drug production, its effects can be highly destructive yet difficult to detect and measure.

Drugs in the Environment: Do Pharmaceutical Take-Back Programs ...

The bulk of human pharmaceuticals found in waterways most likely got there by way of sewage. Taking unused pharmaceuticals out of landfills may make only a ...

The Environmental Impact of Drugs - Banyan Treatment Center

Drugs affect the environment in many ways, including large-scale carbon emissions, water depletion, pollution, and loss of biodiversity. Each of these can have ...

What's the Carbon Footprint of Drug Prohibition? - WOLA

The UN body estimates cocaine's carbon footprint in 2020 at roughly 1.17 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. By comparison, the global ...

PART 2. ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF ILLICIT DRUG ...

The report is a desk study intended to aid UNODC in understanding the status of knowledge on the environmental impact of illegal drug production and manufacture ...

The environmental side effects of medication - PMC - PubMed Central

Some pharmaceuticals can cast effects on bacteria and animals well below the concentrations that are usually used in safety and efficacy tests.

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the environment

Environmental Concerns. Studies have shown that pharmaceuticals and personal care products are present in the environment. They have been detected in surface ...

Drugged waters – how modern medicine is turning into an ... - UNEP

Research suggests that exposure to pharmaceuticals and other chemicals in drinking water may affect human reproductive systems too. A 2017 ...

Origin, transport and ecological risk assessment of illicit drugs in the ...

This review focuses on the origin of illicit drug contaminants in water bodies, air, and soil, their persistence in the environment, and the typical ...

Illegal Drugs and the Environment - DEA Museum

DEA agents and forensics specialists encounter rain forests in Central and South America cleared for coca and opium poppy fields and banned ...

Environmental impact of synthetic drug production: analysis ... - EUDA

Chemical drug production waste is found at production sites, stored in buildings, dumped in the environment, discharged on land or in surface waters, and mixed ...

Drugs in the environment - Impact on plants: A review - ScienceDirect

This review analyzes and summarizes the effects of drugs, primarily antibiotics and NSAIDs on photosynthesizing organisms, ie, algae, aquatic and terrestrial ...

All coked up: The global environmental impacts of cocaine

Production, transit and consumption of the drug are exacting a heavy environmental toll, impacting tropical forests, freshwater and estuary ...