UN experts present alarming picture of global drug use
Homa Lezgee
Press TV, Vienna
The number of people using drugs has risen by 30 percent in less than a decade. In its latest report, the UN office on drugs and crime says drug use caused more than half a million deaths in 2017. Experts are also raising the alarm over a rise in the non-medical use of the painkiller tramadol particularly in the Middle East and North Africa.
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