What experience from other areas of armed conflict shows
Illegal drug production can benefit him war in Ukraine, to flourish even more, warns the United Nations today, citing the experience of armed conflict in other parts of the world.
“Data from the Middle East and Southeast Asia (…) show that conflict situations can act as a magnet for the production of synthetic drugs, which can actually be produced anywhere,” said the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Drugs and Crime Prevention (UNODC) in its annual report.
“This effect can be even greater” in this case as “the area where the conflict unfolds is close to huge consumer markets”, he adds.
Prior to the Russian military invasion on February 24, there was already a growing number of amphetamine laboratories in Ukraine, the expert explains. Angela Me, which was asked about it by the French Agency. Nearly 80 were dismembered in 2020, compared to 17 in 2019.
This productive potential “May increase if the conflict persists”as “the police are no longer there to stop the activity of the laboratories”, he explains.
The war could, however, raise obstacles “on the road”, the report said, citing a possible reduction in Ukraine from early 2022.
THE Mrs. Mestresses at the same time that it is necessary to monitor the situation in Afghanistan, which in 2021 accounted for 86% of world opium production.
In April, the Taliban’s top leader ordered a ban on poppy cultivation. It remains to be seen “whether this will translate into a drastic reduction” in production, the expert underlines, or whether, on the contrary, illegal crops will expand, due to the deterioration of socio-economic conditions in the country.
Any change will have an “impact on almost every part of the world,” the UN said.
Some 284 million people worldwide – or one in 18 in the 15-64 age group – used drugs in 2020, a 26% increase over a decade earlier.
Although the majority of users are men, women increasingly resort to amphetamine stimulants, but “Under-represented in treatment”, stylized by Angela Me.
He talks about “double stigma” and the need to create places where they will feel “safe” and can stay with their children.
Another noteworthy fact: cocaine production reached a record level of 1,982 tonnes in 2020.
The UNODC report, “Preliminary Assessment”, is based on data collected from its member states, through its own channels, as well as from the analysis of data from so-called open sources, ie media publications and reports. institutions.
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