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A UN report said that tighter border controls, public isolation measures and fewer flights due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus led to an increase in drug prices and made it difficult to obtain them worldwide.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said in a report published today, Thursday, that the Corona pandemic has different effects on drug production in different regions and on its smuggling by air, land and sea, but added that the overall situation in countries that consume drugs appears to be similar.
According to the report, “Several countries in all regions declared that there is a general shortage in many types of drugs at the retail level, as well as an increase in prices and a decrease in the purity of the drug, which prompted users to replace some substances with another (the shift from heroin to industrial opiates, for example.” ) And increased demand for drug therapy. ”
While opiates such as heroin are almost completely transported by land, cocaine is mainly shipped by sea.
The office stated that the recent seizure of heroin shipments in the Indian Ocean may indicate a rise in heroin shipments to Europe by sea.
The office added that the lack of flights at the present time may have a “very serious” impact on the smuggling of industrial drugs such as methamphetamine to countries such as South Korea, Japan and Australia.
