East, SE Asia drug industry hits ominous peak

By Agence France-Presse

May 31, 2022 12:02 am

BANGKOK: The number of methamphetamine tablets seized in East and Southeast Asia exceeded a billion last year for the first time, highlighting the scale of illegal drug production and trafficking in the region and the challenges of fighting it, the United Nations (UN) said Monday.

The 1.008 billion tablets were part of a region-wide haul of almost 172 tons of methamphetamine in all forms and were seven times higher than the amount seized 10 years earlier, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said in a report.

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