PESHAWAR: A senior mental health expert, Professor Dr Khalid Mufti, on Friday called for addressing the social and economic issues contributing to a spike in drug abuse along with greater awareness.
International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking would be observed on 26 June (Saturday) to strengthen global action and cooperation to achieve the goal of an international society free of drug abuse
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International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking this year focuses on spreading the right information on drugs
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KOCHI: The theme of the 2021 International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking is “Share Facts on Drugs Save Lives”. This aims at combating misinformation and sharing more facts on drugs. Around 35.6 million people suffer from drug-abuse related disorders globally, according to the World Drug Report 2020 of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Around 269 million people used drugs in 2018, around 30 per cent increase from 2009. Adolescents and young adults are the victims of the menace. Of the 11 million people who use drugs, half of them live with hepatitis C and 1.4 million live with HIV. As many as 585,000 died in 2017 due to drug use up one-quarter from 2008.’
"These trends show the need to increase holistic approaches that combine economic development, increased government presence and citizen security, seizures and eradication in key rural areas to sustainably reduce cocaine production and build peace in areas affected by conflict," it said. The ONDCP numbers differ significantly from those published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on June 9, which indicated the coca crop area declined 7% to 143,000 hectares, but said potential cocaine output rose 8% to 1,228 metric tons a year.
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