UN Office on Drugs and Crime

UNODC has released its Southeast Asia Opium Survey 2014 Lao PDR - Myanmar, showing that opium cultivation had risen more...

Pressure grew on the president of Ghana this week to launch a public inquiry into alleged connections between his own circle...

By Michael Hudson, Ionut Stanescu and Samuel Alder-Bell Lax U.S. rules and real estate industry’s no-questions-asked...

Bulgarian authorities say they have uncovered another Turkey-Bulgaria drug trafficking channel.

Thai authorities acting on a tip stopped a truck carrying about 980,000 methamphetamine pills at a military roadblock,...

Colombian authorities arrested 12 suspects in an international human trafficking ring, the Colombian Attorney General's...

By Eliza Ronalds-Hannon When European heroin use dipped in the early 2000s, politicians and analysts hailed the news as...

Most of the world's drugs flow through these five routes.  

By Eliza Ronalds-Hannon One of the newest trends in cocaine smuggling gives new meaning to the term "undercover."...

Cocaine trafficking and associated violence are still the chief criminal issues affecting Central America, according to a...

While illicit drug use remained stable in much of the world over the past several years, itrose disproportionately in...

Russia’s anti-corruption laws are up to European standards the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has concluded, according...