Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2025

Publication Title

Deviant Behavior

Abstract

Large scale drug production and distribution organizations (DTOs) are businesses. As such they face many of the same challenges faced by legal businesses, such as the creation of new drugs, supply chain issues, and identifying new markets. The legal business world is finding creative ways to meet those challenges utilizing artificial intelligence (AI). This discussion uses a horizon scan methodology to suggest how current and anticipated applications of AI in the legal business world might be adapted by large-scale illicit drug trafficking organizations. The focus in this discussion is on its potential application for the largest organizations that control the mass production and transnational distribution of illicit drugs.

Funding Source

This article was published Open Access thanks to a transformative agreement between Milner Library and Taylor & Francis.

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.1080/01639625.2025.2537441

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First published in Deviant Behavior: https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2025.2537441

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