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  India Tops South Asia In Cannabis Seizure: UN Office On Drugs And Crime

  With an effective law enforcement mechanism in place, India tops in seizure of cannabis among South Asian countries, a UN official said.

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  13% Of Drug Abuse Victims In India Below 20 Years Of Age: UN Official

  Around 13 percent of the those involved in drug and substance abuse in India are below 20 years of age, which calls for stepping up community intervention and preventive mechanisms targeting adolescents, an UN official said on Thursday.

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  In Terms Of Users, India One Of The World's Largest Opiate Market, Says UN Report

  According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's (UNODC) World Drug Report, India is one of the world's single largest opiate markets in terms of users and likely to be vulnerable to increased supply.

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  275 Million People Used Drugs Worldwide In 2020: UN

  Around 36 million people suffered from drug use disorders as 275 million people used drugs worldwide in 2020, according to the 2021 World Drug Report which was released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Thursday.

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  Mali Seizes $6 Million Of Cannabis On New Drug Route

  Malian customs officials have made one of the country's biggest ever drug seizures, impounding 2.1 tonnes of cannabis detected along a new smuggling route that stretches down the west African coast.

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  Human Trafficking a Serious Issue: Rajnath Singh

  Human trafficking is a border-less organised crime in which more than 1.5 lakh people become victims every year, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today.

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  Myanmar, Thailand Destroy Nearly $1 Billion in Seized Drugs

  Myanmar and Thailand today destroyed nearly $1 billion of seized narcotics to mark World Drugs Day, as the UN said East and Southeast Asia remained the world's biggest markets for synthetic drugs and heroin.

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  Record Afghan Opium Output Sparks Rise in Cheaper Heroin Supply: UN

  Opium cultivation and production in Afghanistan have reached record levels, triggering "a large increase" in cheaper heroin supply in the US, the United Nations said today.

• 437,000 murdered worldwide in 2012: UN agency

  Almost half a million people across the world lost their lives in 2012 as a result of intentional homicide, with the highest murder rates logged in the Americas and Africa, and the lowest in Europe, Asia and Oceania, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has said.

• 'War' on illegal drugs is failing: study

  The global war on heroin, cocaine and cannabis is failing to stem supply, as prices of these drugs have tumbled while seizures of them have risen, according to a study published on Monday.

• Crime one of the world's 'Top 20 Economies': UN

  Crime generates an estimated $2.1 trillion in global annual proceeds - or 3.6 percent of the world's gross domestic product - and the problem may be growing, a senior United Nations official said on Monday. "It makes the criminal business one of the largest economies in the world, one of the top 20 economies," said Yury Fedotov, head of the U.N. Of...

• India biggest market of heroin in South Asia: report

  A major share of heroin in South Asian market goes to India's local criminal groups, a UN annual drug report said today."In 2009, the total value of the South Asian heroin estimated at $1.9 billion mostly went to Indian local criminal groups", the World Drug Report 2011 produced by UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said."With a value of USD 1.4 ...

• Opium deadlier than violence in Afghanistan: UN

  Some 10,000 people die from opium abuse in NATO countries each year, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime has said.