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Expert predicts flood of heroin [AU]
    #7542764 - 10/21/07 01:17 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Expert predicts flood of heroin
October 22, 2007 - news.com.au

AUSTRALIAN authorities have been warned by one of the world's top anti-drug tsars to expect a flood of heroin and amphetamines from East Asia in the wake of an explosion in the production of the illicit substances in the region.

So flush with drugs are the East Asian crime gangs that the UN's Jeffrey Avina said they were prepared, more than ever before, to risk losing valuable shipments at border controls in an attempt to penetrate the Australian market.

The region's current oversupply, resulting from the brimming poppy fields of Afghanistan and Burma and industrial-scale methamphetamine "superlabs", require Australian authorities to be extra vigilant, Mr Avina said.

Mr Avina, director of the division for operations at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, visited Australia from his base in Vienna to brief officials about the most recent data on regional drug trafficking threats.

He told The Australian that organised crime gangs were keenly aware of the market in Australia for methamphetamine, the second most used drug behind cannabis.

"You are close to the providers, the organised gangs, and there is already market penetration," he said.

"Therefore you are obviously a likely target.

"While your AFP (Australian Federal Police) have the highest rate of methamphetamine lab closures in the region, the really large producers, the one-tonne-a-week producers, are operating in the safe haven countries across the Asia-Pacific region.

"And in terms of heroin, there is real concern about the new big crops in Burma, one of your principal suppliers. Cropping there has become more technical, double cropping done less by indigenous people and more as a business."

The UNODC's report, Patterns and Trends in Amphetamine-Type Stimulants in East Asia and the Pacific, released earlier this month, found the gangs were producing the more concentrated and addictive crystal form of methamphetamine in preference to pills.

"Almost 40 million methamphetamine pills were seized in the region in 2006, along with 8.4 tonnes of crystal methamphetamine," the report said.

"This is an increase from 2005 of almost 15 million pills and 1.4tonnes of crystal methamphetamine."

The report will come as disturbing news after another set of findings released last week by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre found that the use of methamphetamine by injecting drug users declined from 57 per cent to 47 per cent between last year and this.

Longtime drugs expert Robert Ali, a member of the Australian National Council on Drugs, said some heart could be taken in the plateauing use of ice, but the UN report showed more supply could be expected from Asia.

"Methamphetamine is still the second most commonly used illegal drug in Australia behind cannabis," Associate Professor Ali said.

"Until the very recent past, virtually all the methamphetamine was produced domestically via the outlaw motorcycle gangs through diversion of legal pharmaceuticals.

"But we live near countries where methamphetamine production exceeds capacity, and we are a country that pays a relatively high price for the drug."


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Re: Expert predicts flood of heroin [AU] [Re: veggie]
    #7542812 - 10/21/07 01:30 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

high five Australia!
If only somebody would give you the hookup on some cheap coke, you could go full scale junkie in no time.


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Re: Expert predicts flood of heroin [AU] [Re: Dreamer987]
    #7544235 - 10/21/07 07:33 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I don't give two shits about the crystal meth, but i hope there's a flood of heroin coming to the states too. =D


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Re: Expert predicts flood of heroin [AU] [Re: archetype]
    #7545980 - 10/22/07 08:03 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

i think the cost for a gram of coke in AU or NZ is like 500 bucks


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Re: Expert predicts flood of heroin [AU] [Re: hooksbooks]
    #7546314 - 10/22/07 10:38 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Oh man thats rediculous. I would love to visit australia and finance my time there by just moving a single eight ball, ha that would be too easy.


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