What is the significance of drug control?

The significance of drug control lies in preventing and punishing drug crimes, protecting citizens' physical and mental health and maintaining social order.

Drug control is to urge people who take or inject opium or substitute narcotics to give up their addiction, and to restrict and prohibit the cultivation, storage, manufacture, transportation and trafficking of drugs and drugs.

20 18, 18 10 On October 26th, Yunnan Higher People's Court issued 20 16 to 20 18, 10 white papers on drug control. 2065438+June 0, 2008, 65438+February 165438, Tunchang Narcotics Control Committee and Tunchang Public Security Bureau collectively destroyed drugs and raw materials for manufacturing drugs 1534.2 kg, with a case value of 247 million yuan.

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There are four drug dens in the world, which are the "Golden Triangle" located in the border areas of Laos, Thailand and Myanmar in Southeast Asia. The "Golden Crescent" in the border areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran in Central and Western Asia; Located in the "Silver Triangle" of Colombia in South America and the fourth producing area of Lebanon. The world's four major drug producing areas, major transshipment places and transportation routes.

A large number of drug transactions and huge drug capital flows directly or indirectly threaten the normal operation of the international economy. An annual report issued by the United Nations Drug Control Programme in March 2003 pointed out that the total annual sales of drugs in the world ranged from $800 billion to 1 trillion, accounting for 10% of the total global trade, which was higher than the income of the oil and gas industry and almost equal to the global arms trade.

The number of regular and occasional drug users in the world has reached 200 million; Among them, 6.5438+630 million people use marijuana, 34 million people use amphetamine, 6.5438+04 million people use cocaine, 6.5438+05 million people use opiates and 8 million people use ecstasy.

The spread of drugs has spread to more than 200 countries and regions on five continents, and there is a trend that drug users are getting younger and younger and more female drug users. There are more than 740,000 drug addicts in China. According to the survey of UN officials, there are about 654.38+85 million drug addicts in the world.

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