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As of 2022, the Syrian government financed the biggest multi-billion dollar drug trade in the world, mostly focused on an illegal drug known as Captagon, making it the world's largest narco-state. Its revenues from Captagon smuggling alone is estimated to worth 57 billion dollars annually in 2022, which is approximately thrice the total trade ...
In 2024, it was reported that LAX airport is the central hub for narcotics in the US, perhaps even the world. [3] In the United States, "narcotics" and "drugs" are legally considered different classes and/or types of substances. [4]
In 1988, the country's Guardian Council passed a law allowing courts to impose mandatory death sentences on drug-traffickers found in possession of specified amounts of proscribed narcotics. [15] Iran ranks second in the world for most executions. [14] In 2023, the country executed 853 individuals, with 481 of them convicted of drug-related ...
[11] [16] [17] In 2018, the U.S. opioid prescription rate was 51.4 prescriptions per 100 people, equivalent to more than 168 million total opioid prescriptions. [18] However, these substances also have high risks of addiction and overdose, and long-term use can cause tolerance and physical dependence. [19]
After the World War II, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs was established as early as 1946, by ECOSOC resolution 9(I). [4] Initially, the CND was composed of only 15 countries "Members of the United Nations, which are important producing or manufacturing countries or countries in which illicit traffic in narcotics constitutes a serious social ...
The world's biggest drug producing centres are in regions beyond the control of the central government, like South Afghanistan, South-West Colombia and East Myanmar. Until government control, democracy and the rule of law are restored, these regions will remain nests of insurgency and drug production—and represent the biggest challenge to ...
UNODC headquarters in Vienna. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC; French: Office des Nations unies contre la drogue et le crime) is a United Nations office that was established in 1997 as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention by combining the United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP) and the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division in the ...
The lawsuit filed by the state of Oklahoma against Purdue Pharma was the first significant step in prompting public action toward ending the opioid epidemic. [42] The state of Oklahoma argued that Purdue Pharma helped start the opioid epidemic because of assertive marketing and deceptive claims on the dangers of addiction. [43]