methamphetamine

Asian governments seized a record 236 tons of the drug in 2024, the vast majority of it in mainland Southeast Asia.

Jakarta's anti-drug agency linked the 2-ton meth seizure to a syndicate in the Golden Triangle, which has seen a spike in narcotics production over the past decade.

Faced with ruthless economic demands, increasing numbers of workers are turning to a cheap, addictive drug that enables them to "work without stopping.”

Last year saw East and Southeast Asian governments seize 190 tons of methamphetamine, the largest amount ever recorded in a single year.

Regional methamphetamine seizures dropped slightly in 2022, according to the U.N., but other indicators suggest that the supply "has remained very high or unchanged."

In recent years, Myanmar-based drug syndicates have driven a regional boom in the production of amphetamine-style stimulants.

The ghastly mass shooting in Nong Bua Lamphu Province has cast a light on the inadequacy of the country's current gun control regulations.

The country’s law enforcement operations have done little to shrink the narcotics trade amid a pandemic-related supply glut and instability in Myanmar.

The country's four largest meth seizures on record have come over the past 15 months – striking evidence of the scale of the recent Mekong drug production boom.

The chaos that has enveloped Myanmar since the military takeover has been a gift to the country's drug trafficking syndicates.

This week's 17 million tablet haul amounts to nearly the entire recorded seizures for last year.

Asian government's seizures of methamphetamine rose 19 percent in 2020.