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Covid-19 and meth: Production surged in Asia as economy faltered due to the pandemic, UNODC report says

Covid-19 and meth: Production surged in Asia as economy faltered due to the pandemic, UNODC report says CNN 1 hr ago By Joshua Berlinger, CNN © JACK TAYLOR/AFP/AFP via Getty Images A motorbike taxi driver holds a methamphetamine pill in January in Bangkok. Asia s drug cartels adapted quickly to the pandemic in 2020, flooding markets with synthetic narcotics worth tens of billions of dollars even as the global economy ground to a halt, according to a new United Nations report. Methamphetamine seizures in East and Southeast Asia surged 19% from 2019 to a new record-high, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report found. The organization did not put a dollar figure on the meth trade s value in 2020, but it was believed to be worth between $30 billion and $61 billion in 2019, according to the UNODC.

Meth production surged in Asia as economy faltered due to Covid-19, report says

Asia s synthetic drug trade expanded amid Covid-19 pandemic | World

BANGKOK, June 10 Drug traffickers in East and South-east Asia found ways to evade Covid-19 curbs to boost trade and diversify production, with Cambodia emerging as a large-scale source for methamphetamine, the United Nations said on Thursday. The trafficking of methamphetamine or meth, by far.

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