1 billion pills: The number of seized drugs reaches ominous record in Asia
A U.N. official calls for new policies across East Asia to halt the soaring production of methamphetamines.
BANGKOK â The number of methamphetamine tablets seized in East and Southeast Asia exceeded a billion last year for the first time, highlighting the scale of illegal drug production and trafficking in the region and the challenges of fighting it, the U.N. said Monday.
The 1.008 billion tablets â which would weigh about 91 tons altogether â were part of a regionwide haul of almost 172 tons of methamphetamine in all forms, and was seven times higher than the
