TABLE I - World totals of estimates from 1957 to 1962 (in kilogrammes)
Pages: 50 to 51
Creation Date: 1963/01/01
In pursuance of the International Convention of 13 July 1931 the Drug Supervisory Body publishes an annual statement of estimated world requirements of narcotic drugs. This statement also includes estimates for the narcotic drugs brought under international control by virtue of the Protocol of 19 November 1948. Extracts from this statement for 1963 (document E/DSB/20) follow.
Operation of the estimate system
In accordance with the provisions of the 1941 Convention, the estimates accepted by the Supervisory Body are used by the Permanent Central Opium Board in the calculation of manufacture and import limits for each country or territory and for each drug. It is therefore essential that the estimates should reflect requirements as faithfully as possible.
Receipt of estimates for 1963
Estimates in respect of 123 countries and 59 non-metropolitan territories are given in the statement for 1963. At the time when it was drawn up, estimates for 1963 had been received from 110 countries and 52 non-metropolitan territories. Under the 1931 Convention it is the duty of the Supervisory Body to establish the estimates of countries and territories for which none have been received and thereby ensure the universal application of the estimates system. The Supervisory Body has accordingly established estimates for 1963 in respect of 13 countries and 7 non-metropolitan territories.
World total of estimates from 1957 to 1962
The figures shown in table I are for each drug the sum of the " total of estimates" as defined in article 5 of the 1931 Convention of all the countries and territories in the world in so far as this sum was 1 kg. in at least one year from 1957 to 1962; about a dozen narcotic drugs do not fulfil this condition and were therefore omitted from the table.
Tribute to Mr. Herbert L. May
The five-year term of office of the present members of the Permanent Central Opium Board will expire on 1 March 1963. One of them, Mr. Herbert L. May, who sat on the Supervisory Body from its inception in 1933 until 1959 as the member appointed by the Permament Central Opium Board, has decided not to allow his candidature to be put forward for a further five-year term. The Supervisory Body would not wish to canclude its report without paying a tribute to Mr. May for the distinguished part he has played over a long period in the fight against drug abuse and for his ability, courtesy and profound wisdom, which have won him the esteem and affection of all those who have had the privilege of knowing him. The Supervisory Body associated the members of its Secretariat, at their express request, with the thanks and good wishes which it offered to Mr. May on the occasion of his retirement.
Estimated world requirements of narcotic drugs in 1963 51
Drug |
1957 |
1958 |
1959 |
1960 |
1961 |
1962 * |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Benzylmorphine
|
138 | 141 | 150 | 103 | 162 | 102 |
Cocaine
|
2,778 | 2,891 | 2, 581 | 2,522 | 2,423 | 2,287 |
Codeine-N-oxide
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
1 | 2 | 2 |
Desomorphine
|
2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Diacetylmorphine
|
141 | 123 | 104 | 103 | 80 | 57 |
Dihydromorphine
|
14 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 14 | 9 |
Ecgonine
|
2 |
-
|
-
|
-
|
580 | 600 |
Ecgonine methyl ester
|
32 | 53 | 110 | 132 | 90 | 33 |
Hydrocodone
|
1,459 | 1,587 | 1,567 | 1,664 | 1,511 | 1,749 |
Hydromorphinol
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
6 | 5 |
Hydromorphone
|
202 | 236 | 164 | 191 | 199 | 170 |
Metopon
|
3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
Morphine
|
111,237 | 123,135 | 119,385 | 128,484 | 135,447 | 135,218 |
Morphine-N-oxide
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
--
|
-
|
1 |
Nicomorphine
|
-
|
2 | 12 | 20 | 15 | 12 |
Normorphine
|
-
|
-
|
3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Oxycodone
|
601 | 770 | 723 | 881 | 825 | 952 |
Oxymorphone
|
5 | 4 | 7 | 20 | 20 | 35 |
Thebacon
|
183 | 182 | 151 | 157 | 149 | 157 |
Thebaine
|
4,572 | 4,589 | 3,769 | 3,597 | 6,564 | 6,650 |
Alphaprodine
|
75 | 77 | 68 | 63 | 55 | 73 |
Anileridine
|
717 | 886 | 1,078 | 731 | 322 | 587 |
Benzethidine
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
2 |
-
|
Betaprodine
|
8 |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
Dextromoramide
|
126 | 535 | 759 | 673 | 648 | 501 |
Diethylthiambutene
|
27 | 19 | 17 | 21 | 16 | 14 |
Dimepheptanol
|
-
|
1 |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
Dimethylthiambutene
|
2 | 6 | 1 | 32 |
-
|
1 |
Dioxaphetyl butyrate
|
2 | 2 | 2 |
-
|
1 | 1 |
Diphenoxylate
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
1 | 163 | 277 |
Dipipanone
|
10 | 53 | 108 | 113 | 87 | 36 |
Ethylmethylihiambutene
|
2 |
-
|
1 |
-
|
-
|
-
|
Etoxeridine
|
-
|
31 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Furethidine
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
2 |
-
|
Isomethadone
|
18 | 21 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 6 |
Ketobemidone
|
85 | 136 | 104 | 144 | 187 | 157 |
Levomethorphan
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
1 | 1 |
Levomoramide
|
-
|
-
|
196 | 326 | 204 | 89 |
Levorphanol
|
156 | 92 | 91 | 103 | 76 | 80 |
Metazocine
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
145 | 10 | 20 |
Methadone
|
906 | 769 | 852 | 908 | 777 | 588 |
Normethadone
|
198 | 286 | 290 | 661 | 623 | 350 |
Pethidine
|
17,994 | 17,216 | 18,162 | 19,185 | 22,472 | 20,891 |
Pethidine, intermediate B
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
84 |
Phenadoxone
|
82 | 65 | 40 | 31 | 25 | 15 |
Phenazocine
|
-
|
-
|
20 | 109 | 48 | 58 |
Phenoperidine
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
3 | 8 | 6 |
Piminodine
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
388 | 1,037 | 910 |
Properidine
|
41 | 35 | 27 | 19 | 12 | 11 |
Racemoramide
|
-
|
-
|
7 | 241 | 243 | 581 |
Racemorphan
|
3 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
-
|
-
|
Trimeperidine
|
-
|
1,150 | 1,200 | 1,401 | 907 | 1,278 |
Acetyldihydrocodeine
|
14 | 17 | 20 | 12 | 17 | 75 |
Codeine
|
105,639 | 106,609 | 110,853 | 115,187 | 121,484 | 118,849 |
Dihydrocodeine
|
1,816 | 2,621 | 3,720 | 3,476 | 3,313 | 3,877 |
Ethylmorphine
|
10,230 | 9,225 | 10,554 | 9,822 | 9,994 | 10,270 |
Nicocodine
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
1 |
Pholcodine
|
1,320 | 1,646 | 1,505 | 1,750 | 2,460 | 2,394 |
The figures for the year 1962 will be modified by the supplementary or amended estimates received up to 31 December 1962.