The G.A. will hold its second Special Session on Drugs 8-10 June 1998.
The UN Drug Control Programme is addressing:
The global drug industry generates around $100 billion a year against
which the UN Programme gets under $80 million annually. Drug abuse costs
the U.S. $76 billion each year, Canada about $1.2 billion. The UN wants
not only national governments to participate in control, but all of
civil society including business. A major effort is being made to stem
the flow of opium and heroin out of Afghanistan and Burma, the source
of more than 90% of the world's heroin. Pino Arlacchi, who heads the
UN Programme, was the Italian Senator who led the break-up of the Mafia,
a trial run as he now takes on the dread drug lords.
