Gloves are off in fight against online drug sales, says anti-narcotics body
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Drug dealers aren’t afraid of using popular social media and e-commerce platforms to sell their narcotics which is why countries and internet giants should join forces to fight the disinformation they peddle, a UN-partnered International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) report said on Tuesday.
In an interview with UN News’s Khaled Mohamed, the board’s President, Professor Jallal Toufiq, describes the nature of the online drug threat and offers insight into how to counteract it. He also explains how natural disasters and emergencies linked to climate change and conflict have fuelled demand for medicines containing controlled substances.