The United States law enforcement is cooperating with Uzbekistan to train Uzbek officials in counter Narcotics. The United Nations Office of Drug Control and Crime Prevention is part of the United Nations Drug Control Program its Center for International Crime Prevention that is headquartered in Vienna. The drug production in Central Asia is enough to meet the annual use of the United States, Europe and Central Asia twice over. So the cost is dropping fast. The glut will drive efforts to develop other markets.
Drug traffickers respond quickly to opportunities and to enforcement efforts.
And Central Asian countries do not have the resources to fight drugs. Criminal organizations bribe and intimidate government officials. The health dimensions of the problem are equally ominous. Now Pakistan and Iran have the highest drug addiction of anywhere in the world. We must develop alternative means to help farmers' livelihood.