KABUL (BNA) Marking 26 June the international day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking, observed coinciding with world anti-narcotics day UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said drug users need science-based treatment, not Punishment.
This year’s International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking shines a spotlight on the impact of drug challenges on health and humanitarian crises. Conflicts, climate disasters, forced displacement, and grinding poverty create fertile ground for drug abuse — with COVID-19 making a bad situation even worse. At the same time, people living through humanitarian emergencies are far less likely to have access to the care and treatment they need and deserve.
“We cannot allow the world’s drug problem to further shadow the lives of the tens of millions of people living through humanitarian crises. On this important day, let us commit to lifting this shadow once and for all and giving this issue the attention and action, it deserves,”. The UN in a statement.
The International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, or World Drug Day, is marked on 26 June every year to strengthen action and cooperation in achieving a world free of drug abuse.
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