Despite these efforts, the reliability of data produced with respect to drug trafficking in the country has been questioned, affecting the transparency of the local drug market through the politicization of the issue. [...] police as opposed to customs), as well as the nature of databases that store all of the gathered information provided by different organizations, which affect the collation of such data, even in the same jurisdiction (see, for example, the case of use-related offences being regulated at the level of three entities: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republika Srpska and the Brčko Distri. [...] 71 However, because of its strong focus on the work performed by law enforcement authorities to con- tribute to the war on drugs, the INCSR has faced persistent criticism over the years, especially owing to the influence of US security policies in the assessment of the supply of illicit drugs from different jurisdictions, resulting in the conclusion that the report’s assessments are driven by poli. [...] Unlike the WDR and the INCSR, the EMCDDA reports place particular emphasis on epidemiological indicators intended to capture the demand side of drug markets, and methodologies in data collec- tion and treatment employed under these reports are more harmonized than those used in the open-source databases owing to the use of methodological handbooks and standardized formats for reports and surveys. [...] Such challenges arise from the differing legal frameworks and policies of monitored countries, which affect both the quality and comparability of data, despite the efforts to create a more harmonized and sophisticated database pertaining to the wholesale illicit drug market.80 Furthermore, the difficulties in standardizing data, which hinder triangulation and therefore the comparability of such in.
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