Illicit Trade and Drug Trafficking Proving to be a Major Problem

Illegal transactions and drug trafficking have proved to be major problems, and drug trafficking and illegal trade have proven to be a major problem facing the international community as it enters the 21st century. Currently, the illegal drug market is one of the biggest fields of the modern world economy. Because of this fact, drug trafficking is deeply rooted in the economic and social culture of many countries, which makes management difficult. Drug trafficking also brings issues such as organized crime laundering, corruption and violence.

Drug trading is a worldwide problem including the manufacture, cultivation, distribution and sale of illegal transactions of banned substances. Every country in the world aims to fight drugs, but drug trafficking is still booming. Even if efforts to curb drug-related offenses and crimes continue, the driving force of drug trafficking is incredible in the sense that consumption and distribution will continue to increase. Anti-drugs, military interventions and military support campaigns have been established to reduce illegal drug trafficking. It includes an effective drug policy designed to prevent the dissemination, consumption and production of illegal psychotropic drugs from the United Nations and participating governments.

Drug trading is a worldwide illegal transaction including the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of substances regulated by the anti-narcotics law. In order to more fully understand its dynamics, UNODC continuously monitors and investigates the world illegal drug market. Drug trafficking is an important part of this research. More information is in the world drug report every year. At the current level, world heroin consumption (340 tons) and seizures mean that the world heroin market flows 430 to 450 tons of heroin annually. Among them, opium production from Myanmar and the People's Democratic Republic of Laos is about 50 tons, while the remaining about 380 tons of heroin and morphine are made only from opium in Afghanistan. Approximately 5 tons were consumed in Afghanistan and confiscated, but most of the remaining 375 tons were trafficked throughout the world through routes flowing into neighboring countries in Afghanistan.