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This is the executive summary of a report of a Rapid Situation Assessment (RSA) of drug abuse and related matters in the Independent State of Papua New Guinea (PNG). It was conducted during the second half of 1998 by the PNG National Narcotics Bureau (NNB), assisted by the first author as International Consultant to the project. Financial support for the RSA was provided by the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP), now United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC).