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All
Addict Rehab Centres Operate
Illegally
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Bangladesh
Although
the law makes it mandatory
for all drug addiction treatment
and rehabilitation centres
to obtain licenses from
the Department of Narcotics
Control (DNC), none of the
115 such centres in the
capital has any.
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This document
was formulated by the United Nations
Regional Task Force on Injection
Drug Use and HIV/AIDS for Asia
and the Pacific supported by United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
(UNODC) Regional Centre for East
Asia and the Pacific.
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50th
Session of the Commission on Narcotic
Drugs
The Chairman
of this year's 50th session of
the CND, Ambassador Hans Lundborg
of Sweden, urged Member States
in his opening address to keep
abreast of the evolving drug situation.
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Laboratory
Science: More than Just Drug Control
Labs generally
have low visibility," says
Barbara Remberg, acting Chief
of the UNODC Laboratory and Scientific
Section.
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Christina
Oguz: "To Work in Afghanistan,
You Need to Be an Optimist."
The
southern part of Afghanistan is
a traditional opium cultivation
area
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UNODC
Chief Calls for Action against
Drug Cartels
Most of
the Afghan opium is exported either
to Iran or Pakistan
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The
Architecture of a Safer World
must Include Drugs, Crime and
Terrorism Control
Source: UNODC
Drug
control, crime deterrence and
terrorism prevention - which are
high priorities for our countries
- could be pursued in isolation.
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Escopetarra:
Instrument of Peace
The instrument
that Colombian musician C?sar
L?pez plays at anti-violence events
comes from the former German Democratic
Republic.
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Japanese
Students Support UNODC by Raising
Money for Drug Control.
Japanese
students renewed their support
for UNODC drug control efforts
by making a donation of around
$170,000.
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UNODC
Regional Centre for East Asia
and the Pacific
The United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
(formerly the Office for Drug
Control and Crime Prevention).
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Afghanistan
Opium Survey 2007
In 2007,
Afghanistan cultivated 193,000
hectares of opium poppies, an
increase of 17% over last year.
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Demographic
and Geographic Variations in Injection
Drug Use
Combined
data from 2002 to 2005 indicate
that an annual average of 0.18
percent of persons aged 12 or
older
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Cannabis
Joint 'as Harmful as Smoking Five
Cigarettes
A single
cannabis joint damages the lungs
as much as smoking up to five
cigarettes at once, researchers
say.
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Demand
For Narcotics Outstrips Available
Treatment For Drug Addicts
KABUL, 26
June 2007 (IRIN) - For Hedayatullha,
35, Kabul is the only place to
treat his heroin addiction. A
fellow addict who underwent treatment
at Kabul’s Nejat Rehabilitation
Centre (NRC) told him that it
was one of the very few places
able to help him.
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World
Drug Report 2007
Something
new and significant is going on
in the world drugs market.
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COCA
Power Blowing TO Thailand
Judging
from a "market survey"
conducted by a European male and
female and a Thai woman a few
days ago, cocaine is not hard
to find on the streets of Bangkok.
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Reaching
out to the Wa - Achievements
in Mong Pawk District (1999-2005)
Mong
Pawk District, located in
Wa Special Region 2 of the
Eastern Shan State, is administered
by the Wa authorities, headquartered
in Pang Sang (Pang Kham).
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Eastern
Horizons: Autumn/Winter 2006
The
UNODC Regional Centre for East
Asia and the Pacific works with
over 30 countries in the East
Asia and the Pacific.
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Report
of the International Narcotics
Control Board for 2006
For many
generations, attempts have been
made to combat the adverse effects
of illicit drug trafficking and
abuse.
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Patterns
and Trends of Amphetamine-Type
Stimulants (ATS) and Other Drugs
of Abuse in East Asia and the
Pacific 2005
This
report is the third in a series
of annual publications describing
the most current patterns and
trends of amphetamine-type stimulants
(ATS) and other drugs of abuse
in East Asia and the Pacific.
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Injecting
Drug Use and HIV/AIDS in India
- An Emerging Concern
This
monograph describe the nature
and extent of injecting drug use
in India and its negative consequences
for health, including transmission
of HIV and other blood borne infections.
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ONCB
Presented the Jar of Royal Wisdom
on Alternative Development to
UNODC.
The
Jar of Royal Wisdom on Alternative
Development was presented to UNODC
in Bogota Columbia via Ministry
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UNODC
EASTERN HORIZONS is published
by the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional
Centre for East Asia and the Pacific
in Bangkok, Thailand with contributions
from UNODC country and field offices.
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UNODC
Annual Report 2007
The UNODC
Annual Report for 2007 (covering
activities in 2006) provides
an overview of the organization's
activities worldwide. It shows
the range of activities undertaken
in the field and at headquarters
to make the world safer from
illicit drugs and international
organized crime.
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Life
in the Wa Hills Towards Sustainable
Development
Opium poppy
has been grown in the Wa Region
for over a century. A steady and
lucrative market for the crop
guaranteed profits that were high
enough to transform many previously
self-reliant farmers into economic
dependents of opium.
Country:
Myanmar
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Life
in the Wa Hills Reducing the Demand
for Drugs
Country:
Myanmar
Opium
poppy was first grown in the Wa
Region as a golden crop to use
for general household purposes
such as traditional medicine and
cooking oil.
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Precursor
Control on Central Asia’s Borders with
China Article
Source
: UNODC
The
chain of opiate smugglers and the tangle
of their routes across Central Asia
lead back to the source of their product
in Afghanistan. However, the difficulties
of addressing the Afghan drug trade
at its source are large and manifold,
as the enduring instability and continuing
production of opium in that country
attest.
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Drug
Use in the Northeastern States of India
The drug
abuse pattern in the Northern States
of India changed drastically. The traditional
cannabis and opium smoking was replaced
by heroin smoking and injecting.
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The
National Programme
Strategy
for the Post Opium Scenario " The
Balanced Approach to Sustaining Opium
Elimination in the Lao PDR (2006-2009)".
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UNODC
Publishes 3rd Annual Report
on Patterns and Trends of ATS
Abuse in East Asia and the Pacific
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Internet
'aids drugs trafficking'
Legal
prescription drugs are being
trafficked illegally over the
internet, the UN's anti-drugs
body has warned.
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World
Drug Report 2006
The World Drug
Report 2006 endeavours to fill this
gap. It provides one of the most comprehensive
overviews of illicit drug trends at
the international level. In addition,
it presents a special thematic chapter
on cannabis, by far the most widely
produced, trafficked and used drug in
the world. The analysis of trends, some
going back 10 years or more, is presented
in Volume 1. Detailed statistics are
presented in Volume 2. Taken together,
these volumes provide the most up-to-date
view of today's illicit drug situation…
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The
President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2007
Budget provides resources for reducing
illegal drug use in the United
States.
Reducing drug use requires an investment
in programs that discourage the use
of drugs that help those in need of
treatment and law enforcement programs
that target those trying to supply
illicit drugs to the marketplace.
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PHILIPPINE
CENTERON TRANSNATIONAL CRIME |
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world is in crisis due to the drug epidemic.
Almost everyday, national and international
newspapers and magazines contain columns
on drugs and drug-related incidents.
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UN
Drugs Chief Sounds Warning about
Afghan Opium Production, Cocaine
Consumption in Europe
Cocaine
consumption in western Europe
is reaching alarming levels
while opium production in Afghanistan
could rise again this year despite
a welcome decline in 2005, the
Executive Director of the United
Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime (UNODC), Antonio Maria
Costa, said on Monday.
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Seeds
of a Suicide Mission No
Peace To Keep, a report released last
month by the London, UK-based Senlis
Council, a security and development
policy group. Canadian troops and Afghan
civilians are paying with their lives
for Canada's adherence to the U.S. government's
failing military and counter-narcotics
policies in Kandahar. There does not
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The
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
(formerly
the Office for Drug Control and Crime
Prevention) was set up in 1997, combining
the United Nations Centre for International
Crime Prevention and the United Nations
International Drug Control Programme.
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Inside
The Afghan Drug Trade
The Afghan police
chief doesn't realize his voice is being
taped. So pardon him if he brags
about
his life as a drug trafficker. In a
friendly conversation recorded in his
home last summer.
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Bustling
Gulf City Finds It Has Imported a Drug
The man jiggled
in his chair and faced his counselor,
recounting matter-of-factly his dark
slide into drug abuse. "I tried
everything I could get my hands on,"
said the man, a grim-faced 33-year-old
who insisted on anonymity to protect
his privacy. Along with friends, he
began experimenting a decade ago, and
soon recreation led to dependency.
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UNODC
Seeks to Expand in Shan State
THE new
head of the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime in Yangon, Mr Shariq
Bin Raza, said last week that the agency
was seeking to expand its activities
in Myanmar and was hopeful it could
do so with financial support from international
donors. Mr
Raza, who assumed his new post in Yangon
in March, said in an interview with
The Myanmar Times on April 28 thatthe
UNODC was planning to expand its program
in Myanmar to provide alternative development
assistance for former opium farmers
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Release
of the 2006 International Narcotics
Control Strategy Report
Source: US Department
of State During the
past year,
the international community has continued
to combat the drug trade and the activities
financed by drugs:terrorism
and transnational
crime. We can point to significant successes
attributable in
large measure to increasingly united
international efforts in reducing drug
trafficking and criminal activity....
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