Shan State: Drugs and Jeremy Douglas

shan state: Big international syndicates already active in the Golden Triangle are well positioned to take advantage of regional heroin demand and produce synthetic opioids alongside other drugs, the agency's regional representative, Jeremy Douglas, said in a statement, according to CTV. The UN agency warned that the development suggests that Southeast Asia is poised to become a significant source of synthetic drugs for other parts of the world. The discovery during a series of drug raids in Myanmar's Shan state suggests a market for the drug has been created in the region, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said Monday. What has been unearthed through this operation is truly off the charts, and it is clear that a network of production facilities like those found would not be possible without the involvement and financial backing of serious transnational organized criminal groups, Douglas said. The Golden Triangle, a remote jungle area where the borders of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand meet, was once a major source of the world's opium and heroin. Massive amounts of methamphetamine and other drugs and their components were also seized in what the agency described as one of the largest and most successful counter-narcotics operations in the history of the country and region. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.