Opiate flows through northern Afghanistan and Central Asia
Subtitle: a threat assessment
By: this report was prepared by the UNODC Afghan Opiate Trade Project of the Studies and Threat Analysis Section (STAS), Division for Policy Analysis and Public Affairs, (DPA), in the framework of UNODC Trends Monitoring and Analysis Programme, with the collaboration of the UNODC Country Office in Afghanistan and the UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia ; research and report preparation, Hakan Demirbüken [and four others]
Contributors: UNODC Afghan Opiate Trade Project; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Country Office Afghanistan; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Regional Office for Central Asia
Publisher: UNODC, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Vienna, Austria]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Opium trade; Drug traffic
Description: "This report describes the illicit trade of opiates along the Northern route from northern Afghanistan to Central Asia up to the borders of the Russian Federation. It has been organized in three sections. The first section begins by addressing the dynamics of trafficking in northern Afghanistan, including the groups involved, the volumes of opiate flows and opiate consumption, as well as the share that southern Afghanistan production takes in Northern route trafficking. A second section explores trafficking dynamics through Central Asia, including the methods involved and the groups managing the trade. Lastly, the final section briefly analyzes the regional capacity to respond to the threat of Afghan opiates. For the purposes of this study, "northern Afghanistan" refers to both north Afghanistan and north-east Afghanistan, following the regional grouping of provinces used in the UNODC annual Opium Poppy Survey. The north Afghanistan region consists of the provinces of Baghlan, Samangan, Faryab, Sari-pul, Jawzjan, Bamyan and Balkh, while north-east Afghanistan consists of Kunduz, Badakhshan and Takhar provinces."--Page 5.
Notes: "May 2012"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.