80,000 Russians die every year from Illicit Drugs
November 13, 2007 · Posted in Europe, Global Drug Trade
A Russian Official has stated that up to 80,000 Russians die every year from the consumption of illicit drugs.
About 70,000 Russians die annually from diseases linked to drug addiction, and another 10,000 are killed by overdoses, said Alexander Yanevsky, a department chief at the Drugs Control Service.
“Russia is situated in a drugs belt. There is heroin in the south, synthetic drugs coming in from the West and rising internal production of drugs,” Yanevsky said at a conference on drug control, reported RIA Novosti news agency.
With 5 to 6 million estimated drug users, traffickers in Russia earn an estimated $15 Billion in the drug trafficking industry.
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