Drugs and the Internet – The Threat to Youth is a detailed report on the increasing number of adolescents and young adults engaging in illegal and harmful drug related activity via the internet in the United States.

Highlighted in this report is how the internet freely provides access to all aspects of drug activity; from manufacture to distribution and specifically focuses on the websites that promote or facilitate the production, use, and sale of MDMA, GHB, and LSD, the three significant “club drugs.”

As an overview this report looks at the threat that these internet websites pose to adolescents and young adults and is intended to assist policymakers in countering this threat to America’s youth and the overall national drug problem.

Extensively covered are the following topics:

• Overview
• Project Background
• The Internet: The Emergence of an Information Superhighway
• The Nature of the Threat
• The Location of the Threat
• Identifying Individuals/Groups
• Drug production and the Internet
• Drugs and the Internet
• Internet Sampling
• Legal Issues – Challenges Facing Policy Makers and Law Enforcement