World drug report 2012

2012

WORLD
DRUG
REPORT

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME
Vienna

World Drug Report
2012

UNITED NATIONS
New York, 2012

© United Nations, June 2012. All rights reserved worldwide.
ISBN: 978-92-1-148267-6 e-ISBN: 978-92-1-055653-8
United Nations publication, Sales No. E.12.XI.1
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PREFACE

Global opium production amounted to 7,000 tons in
2011. That is more than a fifth less than the peak of 2007 but an increase from the low level of 2010, the year in which a plant disease destroyed almost half of the opium harvest in Afghanistan, which continues to be the world’s biggest producer. The total area under coca bush cultivation in the