New UN Report Shows Extent of ASEAN Methamphetamine Traffic
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2019 10:48 am
17 March 2019
CEO News: A new report from the UN Global SMART Programme published in March 2019 : Synthetic Drugs in East and South-East Asia Trends and Patterns of Amphetamine-type Stimulants and New Psychoactive Substances shows the extent of the rising trans-border traffic of methamphetamine and other drugs between Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and beyond.
https://www.unodc.org/documents/southea ... nd_SEA.pdf
The shocking methamphetamine trade in ASEAN
By ASEAN Post -
March 17, 2019
Porous borders and a lack of enforcement contributed to the record seizure of methamphetamine in East and Southeast Asia last year.
Drug trade in the Golden Triangle – a region where the borders of Myanmar, Lao and Thailand meet – is booming thanks to an increase in transnational organised crime groups operating, manufacturing and trafficking methamphetamine and other drugs in the region, according to a recent report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Seizures of methamphetamine in the region in 2017 came in at 82 tons, which was a record at the time. However, last week’s UN report noted that the latest available data for 2018 – confirmed by countries in the region mostly by the third quarter of the year – shows the amount seized had increased to 116 tons. The amount is an alarming 210 percent increase from five years ago.
In full: https://theaseanpost.com/index.php/arti ... rade-asean
CEO News: A new report from the UN Global SMART Programme published in March 2019 : Synthetic Drugs in East and South-East Asia Trends and Patterns of Amphetamine-type Stimulants and New Psychoactive Substances shows the extent of the rising trans-border traffic of methamphetamine and other drugs between Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and beyond.
https://www.unodc.org/documents/southea ... nd_SEA.pdf
The shocking methamphetamine trade in ASEAN
By ASEAN Post -
March 17, 2019
Porous borders and a lack of enforcement contributed to the record seizure of methamphetamine in East and Southeast Asia last year.
Drug trade in the Golden Triangle – a region where the borders of Myanmar, Lao and Thailand meet – is booming thanks to an increase in transnational organised crime groups operating, manufacturing and trafficking methamphetamine and other drugs in the region, according to a recent report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Seizures of methamphetamine in the region in 2017 came in at 82 tons, which was a record at the time. However, last week’s UN report noted that the latest available data for 2018 – confirmed by countries in the region mostly by the third quarter of the year – shows the amount seized had increased to 116 tons. The amount is an alarming 210 percent increase from five years ago.
In full: https://theaseanpost.com/index.php/arti ... rade-asean