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Man, Nicola and Linghu, Qingyuan and Pedersen, Max and Bruno, Raimondo and Sutherland, Rachel and Barrett, Monica and Peacock, Amy (2022) Trends in the availability and types of drugs sold on the internet via cryptomarkets, October 2021 – September 2022. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. Drug Trends Bulletin.

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Drug Trends has identified, crawled (or ‘scraped’), extracted, categorised and analysed drug listings on cryptomarkets on a regular basis since 1 February 2014. This bulletin series reports on trends in the availability and types of drugs sold on the internet via cryptomarkets over a 12-month period (a new bulletin is released typically every four months). The current bulletin focuses on analysis of drug listings on cryptomarkets from 1 October 2021 to 30 September 2022.

An accompanying public online interactive data visualisation is available, allowing viewers to interact with data collected over the total monitoring period.

Item Type
Report
Publication Type
International, Report
Drug Type
Substances (not alcohol/tobacco), Cannabis, CNS depressants / Sedatives, CNS stimulants, Cocaine, Inhalents and solvents, Opioid, New psychoactive substance
Intervention Type
General / Comprehensive, Prevention, Harm reduction, Crime prevention, Screening / Assessment
Source
NDARC
Date
November 2022
Identification #
Drug Trends Bulletin
Pages
22 p.
Publisher
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
Place of Publication
Sydney
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Subjects
A Substance use and dependence > Prevalence > Substance use behaviour
MM-MO Crime and law > Substance related offence > Drug offence > Illegal transportation of drugs (smuggling / trafficking)
MM-MO Crime and law > Substance related offence > Drug offence > Illegal distribution of drugs (drug market / dealing)
MP-MR Policy, planning, economics, work and social services > Marketing and public relations (advertising) > Internet retailing (online sales / dark web)
VA Geographic area > Australia and Oceania > Australia

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