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Central drug policy-making body of the UN System
The primary UN treaty that directly regulates interdiction of ships for drug trafficking is the 1988 United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (th...
The international response to fentanyl precursors has evolved from scheduling two core chemicals in 2017 to a rolling effort through 2024 to add multiple alternative precursors as traffickers shifted ...
International controls on have expanded in stages: two long-known precursors were placed under the 1988 Convention in , three more were added by the in March and entered into force on 23 November 2022...
has repeatedly shown it can be carried out using chemicals that were not originally regulated, because illicit operators substitute or synthesize alternative precursor chemicals to evade controls; gov...
Illicit fentanyl manufacture typically relies on a set of identifiable chemical precursors — most prominently ANPP (4‑ANPP), NPP (N‑phenyl‑1‑piperidinone) and related piperidone intermediates — and th...
International controls now list N-phenethyl-4-piperidone (NPP) and 4‑anilino‑N‑phenethylpiperidine (ANPP) in the most restrictive table of the 1988 UN precursor convention, obliging national regulatio...