Methamphetamine trade works from the ‘Gold Triangle’ region | Drug news

UN Drugs and Crime Drugs and Crime Drugs ‘Explosive Growth’ in drug trafficking, caused metamphyamam in Eastern and Southeast Asia in 2024.

Drug production and human trafficking increased in the mean “Gold triangle“Myanmar, Laos and Thailand’s borders, the United Nations on drugs and crimes (UNODC), a new report on the scale of regional trade in synthetic drugs.

Unodc, 236 tons of methamphetamine seized in Eastern and Southeast Asian regions last year, celebrated the increase of 24 percent of drugs seized compared to the previous year.

While Thailand became the first country Last year, 100 tons of methamphetamine will seize a year – a total of 130 tons of metamphetamine – medicinal drug trafficking Expanding rapidly in Laos And in Cambodia, Unodc said.

“236 tons represent only the captured amount; more methamphetamine is on the market,” Benedal Hofmann’s regional representative of Benedal Hofmann, Benedict Hofmann.

“These seizures, partially successful law enforcement efforts, methamphetamine production and gold triangle, especially the Shan situation, said,” Hofmann “.

Transnational drug groups operating in Eastern and Southeast Asia, as well as the attempts to crash on the growing trade in the synthetic drugs of regional law enforcement shows “remarkable agility”.

The grinding of Myanmar, which erupts in mid-2021, created favorable conditions Expanding drug trafficking.

“In February 2021, drugs from the country were seized in Myanmar in the country, not only in East and Southeast Asia, especially Northeast India, especially the Southeast India, especially in Southeast India,

The leading analyst for UNODC, Southeast Asia and Pacific, Myanmar said that neighboring countries became the main trade roads for the drugs produced by the gold triangle.

“First of all, the path of trade, which connects Cambodia with Myanmar with Myanmar through the LAOS PDR,” said Sim, using the form of a part of the form of a form of the People’s Democratic Republic.

“The other is increasingly important, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, serves as a main transit center in Malaysia tomorrow,” he said.

Approximately located in the east and #Souteastasia When combining other organized crime activities, it is increasingly applied along the entire drug supply chain.

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The unodc report also notes that the number of drug users in the use of methamphetamine and ketamine in most countries in the region – a strong peak age group grown in some nations.

“Some countries in the region such as Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, the number of older drug users has increased consistently, and the number of young users rejects.

UNODC’s HOFMANN may be due to the prevention campaigns of the use of the number of young medicines for treatment.

“There will be a key to investing in both the prevention of both the area and reducing the supply of supply,” he said.