Without drug observatories in the Caribbean to collect and analyse data and to disseminate information on drug use and drug trafficking, hemispheric efforts will just be a shot in the dark, says US Deputy Chief of Mission Terry Steers-Gonzalez.
“If we are to make headway in this endeavour, we must put drug observatories in as many places as possible,” he said.
A national drugs observatory is a body that provides a country with factual, objective and comparable information on drugs and drug addiction and their consequences.