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Narcotic Drugs 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. |