'I think the region is literally swimming in methamphetamine,' Jeremy Douglas, Southeast Asia regional representative for a U.N. agency, said at a news conference in the Thai capital, unveiling the report on 'Synthetic Drugs in East and Southeast Asia.'
Smokes and flames billow from burning narcotic drugs during a destruction ceremony of seized narcotic drugs in outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar on June 26, 2018.
"I think the region is literally swimming in methamphetamine," said Jeremy Douglas, Southeast Asia regional representative for the U.N. agency, at a news conference in the Thai capital Bangkok unveiling the report on"Synthetic Drugs in East and Southeast Asia." "Production and trafficking of methamphetamine jumped yet again as supply became super concentrated in the Mekong and in particular Thailand, Laos and Myanmar," Douglas told The Associated Press in an email.
The Golden Triangle area, where the borders of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand meet, was historically a major production area for opium and hosted many of the labs that converted it to heroin. Decades of political instability have made Myanmar's frontier regions largely lawless, to be exploited by drug producers and traffickers.
"The chemical situation is highly complex and there's no essential chemicals being seized and they just continue to flow unabated, primarily through Laos into Shan State," Douglas added."We also have huge money laundering operations at play in the region. We have no attempt fundamentally at the end of the day to address demand which is seemingly growing and can continue to grow because of the price point of the drug is so cheap.
"Every group denies involvement in drug production and trafficking and point at other groups as responsible, but the drug economy is arguably the largest part of the economy in most or many parts of Shan and border areas of Myanmar and there is plenty of intel connecting groups to labs and shipments," Douglas said.
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