If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree. ~Jim Rohn
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime warned this week that developing countries could face a “health disaster” if wealthy countries do not control the flow of drugs. At a meeting in Vienna, Austria, UNODC chief Antonio Maria Costas said that “the developing world lacks the treatment facilities and law enforcement to control drugs. This seems to have been forgotten by people in rich countries calling for loosening of drug controls.
Costas talked about the increasing heroin use in East Africa, cocaine use in West Africa and synthetic drugs in the Middle East and Southeast Asia as warning signs. Costas believes that drug addiction is a treatable condition, though inequality “within and between states marginalizes poor people who lack access to treatment.”
The UNODC is working with the World Health Organization to achieve universal access to drug treatment programs and work with UNAIDS to stem the spread of HIV worldwide.
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