Professor Hamid Ghodse, president of the UN's International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), said there is a "vicious cycle of social exclusion and drugs problems and fractured communities" in cities across the world.
''Examples are in Brazil, Mexico and the United States, as well as in Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester in the UK. It is no good to have only law enforcement, which always shows it does not succeed,'' he said at the launch of the annual INCB report.
Besides drug prevention and treatment programmes, people in blighted areas need to have access to the same levels of educational, employment and recreational opportunities as in the wider society, he added.
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