Drugs in Central Asia has been grossly underestimated. The impact of drugs on Central Asia has escalated dramatically in the past few years. Drug intervention must be undertaken seriously in this region as the scale and potential for drug proliferation is simply huge. Central Asia is the epicenter of the most heavily used trafficking routes for the world's heroin and many of it is being used locally. This topic is of great immediacy and this forum focuses on policies that can be implemented if not immediately, then very soon.
Drugs are a tremendous threat to stability throughout the entire region.
In the Soviet period, cannibus and heroin were grown in Central Asia for medicinal purposes. Drugs did not because a disease in the region until the 1990's with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the civil war in Tajikistan. With the Taliban rule in Afghanistan, opium production has developed tremendously. Kyrgyzstan is right in the drug trafficking corridor stretching from Osh to Nagorno-Karabakh through Tajikistan. Drugs are undermining the main goals of our country to reform the economy and society.