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Australia, NZ have highest cocaine use
ISTANBUL — Australia and New Zealand have the highest prevalence of cocaine use in the world, according to the latest World Drug Report released Thursday by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).While total cocaine consumption remains highest in the Americas, the annual prevalence rate — the percentage of the population using the drug — was found to be highest in Oceania, which includes Australia and New Zealand.The Americas ranked second, fo…
The World Drug Report 2025 of the United Nations (UN) reveals a global increase in consumption of 28% in a decade, with almost half a million deaths per year and 28 million years of healthy life lost due to disability and premature deaths. 40% of the years of healthy life lost [...]
The current global 'boom' of cocaine should not be seen as the exclusive problem of Latin America, but that all countries in the chain must assume their responsibility in the midst of the expansion phase and the record levels reached in the production of this drug. So he told Bloomberg Línea Leonardo Correa, regional coordinator of the Office on Drugs and Crime or UNODC.The cocaine problem has taken on a global dimension as new markets become in…
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