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Synthetic drug market in East, Southeast Asia expands despite COVID-19: UN report - World News

2021-06-10 12:05:29 GMT2021-06-10 20:05:29(Beijing Time) Xinhua English BANGKOK, June 10 (Xinhua) Synthetic drug market in East and Southeast Asia continued to expand despite the COVID-19 impacts, with production and trafficking surging in 2020, according to a report released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Thursday. Methamphetamine seizures have increased substantially in the region despite COVID-19 restrictions, according to the report titled Synthetic Drugs in East and Southeast Asia: latest developments and challenges 2021. In 2020, the region s methamphetamine seizures amounted to 170 tonnes, surging 19 percent from 2019, according to the report, which did not provide the value of the seizures.

Despite pandemic, Asia s illegal drug trade thriving

Experts tracking the illicit drug trade in Asia have, for some time, likened it to a tsunami - and it is not stopping.  In fact, while the Covid-19 pandemic cut deep into the regular economy across the region, organised crime thrived, producing and distributing synthetic drugs in record quantities. A new report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) confirms

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