Addiction, crime and insurgency
Subtitle: the transnational threat of Afghan opium
By: [prepared by the UNODC Studies and Threat Analysis Section (STAS)]
Publisher: United Nations Office On Drugs and Crime
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Vienna, Austria]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9789210543088; 9789211302851
Subjects: Opium trade; Insurgency; Organized crime; Corruption; Opium; Commerce; Révoltes; Crime organisé; SOCIAL SCIENCE; General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Infrastructure
Description: The publication shows the devastating consequences that the opium and heroin that are trafficked from Afghanistan every year have on the health and security of countries along the Balkan and Eurasian drug routes, of countries in Europe, and of China, India and the Russian Federation. It documents how the world's deadliest drug has created a market worth billions of dollars, catering to millions of addicts, causing thousands of deaths per year, spreading HIV at an unprecedented rate and, not least, funding criminal groups, insurgents and terrorists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.