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The Golden Triangle is now one of the world's leading areas for the production of synthetic drugs and particularly methamphetamine as production has scaled up of Yaba tablets and crystalline methamphetamine, including for export to Australia, New Zealand, and across East and Southeast Asia. [59]
The huge trade in methamphetamine and other illegal drugs originating from a small corner of Southeast Asia shows no signs of slowing down, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime warned Friday.
In spite of the intensifying shift towards synthetic drug production in Myanmar (specifically methamphetamine in the Golden Triangle [19]) organized crime groups still generate substantial profits from the business of trafficking heroin within Southeast Asia. Latest findings from 2020 show that domestic heroin consumption of 6 tons was valued ...
Traders of the Golden Triangle. Chiang Mai: Cognoscenti Books. ASIN B006GMID5K. Hersh, Seymour M. (21 July 1972). "C.I.A. aides assail Asia drug charge: Agency fights reports that it ignored heroin traffic among allies of U.S." The New York Times. p. A1. Lask, Thomas (21 July 1972). "Bonanza in 'Golden Triangle' ". The New York Times. p. A31.
The Golden Triangle is one of Asia's main opium-producing areas with the other area being the Golden Crescent. The triangle is an area of roughly 350,000 square kilometers that overlaps the mountainous regions of four nations of Southeast Asian: Myanmar also known as Burma, Laos, and Thailand.
As long as they were allied with the CIA, the local police and then the DEA stayed away from the drug lords. UNODOC observes Southeast Asia is closing a tragic chapter that has blighted the Golden Triangle for decades—the region is now almost opium free.
It is a major trading route between China's southwestern Yunnan Province and the countries of Southeast Asia. [7] After leaving China, the river flows through the Golden Triangle area, where the borders of Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos meet. The region has long been plagued by lawlessness and is notorious for drug smuggling. [3]
Remaining opium production shifted south of the Chinese border into the Golden Triangle region. [31] The remnant opium trade primarily served Southeast Asia, but spread to American soldiers during the Vietnam War, with 20 percent of soldiers regarding themselves as addicted during the peak of the epidemic in 1971. In 2003, China was estimated ...