00:01More than 300 million people worldwide used drugs in the past year, according to the UNODC World Drug Report 2025
00:08data,
00:09and around 600,000 die annually from drug use and related causes.
00:14The issue was discussed at an international forum on countering transnational drug threats to public health and security.
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00:32UNODC, and the UNODC.
00:33The UNODC has a role in the UNODC.
00:39President Savkat Mirziyoyev has proposed a unified digital platform powered by artificial intelligence,
00:44linking law enforcement databases across countries alongside tighter standards to track illicit financial flaws through crypto and offshore systems.
00:53So we have laboratories inside Afghanistan, the big producer of methamphetamines.
00:58But that again has led to changing use of drugs in Central Asia,
01:03meaning young people are not really finding opiates on the market, but more so these new synthetic drugs.
01:09Experts say the shift is already changing drug use patterns across the region.
01:14One of the things that they do, they create new drugs,
01:17and sometimes for this purpose they use artificial intelligence to create variation to the formula.
01:24If the drugs are not officially in the legislation under control, then they cannot be prosecuted.
01:30Authorities say the response must move just as fast combining technology,
01:34financial tracking, and cross-border cooperation to close the gaps traffickers exploit.
01:39As drug networks become more sophisticated and harder to trace,
01:43the pressure is growing for a more coordinated global response.
01:46The message here is clear.
01:48Without faster cooperation and smarter tools,
01:50the gap between traffickers and those trying to stop them will only widen.
01:54Rushana Lekbarova, Euronews, SummerCamp.
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