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Synthetic drug market disrupted in Syria after regime change

·December 22, 2025·1 min read

Captagon, a highly addictive stimulant, has been circulating illegally from the Middle East to Africa and back with 80 per cent of seizures since 2019 indicating Syria as the country of origin, according to the Office. But one year post-regime change in the country, the large-scale manufacturing of the synthetic...

Malaria: Drug resistance and underfunding threaten progress towards eliminating killer disease

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·December 4, 2025·2 min read

The parasitic mosquito-borne disease is both preventable and curable but it remains a serious and deadly global health threat – claiming hundreds of thousands of lives – mostly among young children and pregnant women, predominantly in sub-Saharan Africa. The WHO’s latest annual update shows impressive progress since 2000: intervention has...

Security Council LIVE: Ambassadors meet over US strikes against alleged drug traffickers off Venezuela

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·October 13, 2025·1 min read

The UN Security Council went into emergency session on Friday, following a request from Venezuela. The United States military has carried out four deadly air strikes in Caribbean waters over the past few weeks against what Washington alleges are Caracas-backed drug traffickers. The Venezuelan Government denies the charge, accusing the...

Despite the fall of Assad, the illicit drug trade in Syria is far from over

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·June 26, 2025·3 min read

Despite the current government’s hostility to the trade, the country remains a hub for the production and distribution of the drug. During the country’s long-running civil war, the Assad regime was hit by sanctions and diplomatic isolation, and the trade in Captagon is believed to have brought in billions of...

Exponential rise in synthetic drug production and trafficking in the Golden Triangle

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·May 28, 2025·1 min read

According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the production and trafficking of methamphetamine – an illegal synthetic stimulant – have risen sharply since 2021, particularly in Myanmar’s Shan State. UNODC emphasised that both the scale of production and the flow of trafficking in Shan State have “significantly”...

First Person: A Thai police trainer’s ‘passion’ for fighting the SE Asia drug trade

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·July 2, 2023·4 min read

The trainee police officers are part of a network of law enforcement specialists in Thailand, but also across the region, who are cooperating across borders to stem trafficking operations by international crime syndicates. They are collaborating under the border liaison office (BLO) network, supported by the UN Office on Drugs...

INTERVIEW: Policing one of the world’s ‘biggest drug trafficking corridors’

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·June 30, 2023·7 min read

The effort is centred on the Golden Triangle, where the borders of Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos meet and from where illicit items including drugs are trafficked to lucrative markets across Southeast Asia. UN News spoke with Jeremy Douglas, the Regional Representative of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)...

A knowledge-based approach to tackling Afghanistan’s drug abuse crisis

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·June 26, 2023·12 min read

Afghanistan, one of the world’s largest producers of heroin and methamphetamine – most of it smuggled abroad – is home to nearly 4 million drugs users, according to the UN. The worsening crisis has left most of the country’s drug treatment and rehabilitation centers struggling to cope. A walk through...

Saudi Arabia: Quash death sentence for Jordanian convicted of drug offences, urge UN experts

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·December 2, 2022·2 min read

“Under international law, States that have not yet abolished the death penalty may only impose it for the ‘most serious crimes’, involving intentional killing”, the UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts said in a statement, continuing to urge the Saudi Government to “abolish the death penalty for drug convictions”. Hussein Abo...

Saudi Arabia: Resumption of executions for drug offences ‘deeply regrettable’, UN rights office says

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·November 22, 2022·1 min read

Spokesperson Liz Throssell said executions have been taking place almost daily over the past two weeks, following the end of a 21-month official moratorium. “The resumption of executions for drug-related offences in Saudi Arabia is a deeply regrettable step, all the more so coming just days after a wide majority...

WHO unveils new strategy to tackle antimalarial drug resistance in Africa |

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·November 21, 2022·2 min read

Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for a disproportionately high share of the global malaria burden, with around 96 per cent of all cases and deaths in 2020. As a result of drug resistance, medicines to treat the life-threatening disease become ineffective. Worrying signs Malaria is caused by parasites that are transmitted...