Drug Busts Increasing This Year
Police have detained more than 5,000 people for drug-related crimes during the first nine months of this year and seized about 65 kilograms of illegal substances, a meeting was told on Friday.

Speaking on Friday at a meeting on anti-drug operations in the first nine months of the year, Deputy National Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Mok Chito said police had been busy cracking down on drugs.

He added that police had filed 2,265 cases this year, an increase of 597 compared with the same period in 2015. A total of 55,057 suspects had been detained, an increase of 1,655 on last year’s figures.

Last year, police arrested 3,402 suspects, filed 1,668 cases and seized 87 kilograms of drugs.

Gen. Chito pointed out that this year police had seized only 65 kilograms of illegal drugs, less than last year because there was one case in 2015 where police seized 54 kilograms in one haul.
He pointed out that operations to fight drug trafficking and use was actively going on across the country.

According to Gen. Chito’s report, among the 55,057 suspects, there were 69 foreigners detained over drug crimes. Police also seized 65.5 kilograms of drugs, 4.3 kilograms of dried marijuana, 62,023 marijuana plants and 95 kilograms of safrole oil. *
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29002/ ... this-year/

*Safrole is listed as a Table I precursor under the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances.[10] Due to its role in the manufacture of MDMA, safrole and isosafrole, as well as piperonal, are Category I precursors under regulation No 273/2004 of the European Community.[11] In the United States, safrole is currently a List I chemical.
From wikipedia.

Drug use up by third since ’15, report says
Thu, 15 December 2016
Mech Dara

Almost 10,000 people have been arrested in drug-related cases this year and more than 150 kilograms of narcotics confiscated, while the number of addicts in the country increased by about a third compared to 2015, a document obtained yesterday says.

Signed by Prime Minister HE and dated Tuesday, the document says police and military police have dealt with 4,191 cases related to drugs so far this year, and arrested a total of 9,802 people.

The amount of confiscated drugs, meanwhile, totalled 157.8 kilograms, while a survey found 18,554 drug addicts in Cambodia – a nearly 30 percent increase from last year. The document does not provide any further information about the survey, or explain how it was conducted...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/d ... eport-says

''The document does not provide any further information about the survey, or explain how it was conducted...

Do they ever...On any topic? Research, statistics, surveys & assumptions all originate from here.

18k drug addicts ? Mouhahaha
That isn't even 0.15% of the population...
Where was it that they found 40% of road users were under ice not so long ago ?