‘It gets hold of you’: Crystal meth from Myanmar floods Australia streets
Al Jazeera
Australian police estimate about 70 percent of the highly-addictive drug on the streets comes from the war-torn country.
Melbourne, Australia – Myanmar’s remote jungle hills may be a world away from sun-soaked Australia, but the two countries share an insidious bond – crystalline methamphetamine.
Otherwise known as “ice” or “crystal meth”, crystalline methamphetamine is a highly addictive substance which has permeated Australia’s suburbs.
The Australian Federal Police estimates about 70 percent of the drug comes from northeastern Myanmar, near the Golden Triangle, where the country borders Thailand and Laos, and is transported through Southeast Asia before arriving in Australia by boat.
A recent National Drug Strategy survey showed that one out of every 100 Australians over the age of 14 had used ice in the last 12 months, mostly in the country’s major cities.
The same survey also indicated that about 7.5 percent of Australia’s population had tried methamphetamine during their lifetime.
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