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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime  

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  • Established in 1997 as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) was relaunched in 2002. It amalgamated the UN Drug Control Programme, which the General Assembly established in 1990 as the body responsible for coordinated international action in the field of drug abuse control, and the General Assembly's Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme, which the Center for International Crime Prevention implemented in 1997. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime]

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