Creative industries in the United Kingdom claim that up to 50 percent of all Internet traffic in the country is file-sharing activities.

Source:  Robert Verkaik, “Internet piracy crackdown by US studios,” Independent, March 1, 2010.

There were an estimated 5 million drug addicts in Russia in 2010, with half of all addicts addicted to heroin.

Heroin causes at least 30,000 deaths per year in Russia.

Source: Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, “Russia blames Nato for heroin surge from Afghanistan,” BBC News, February 27, 2010.

Brand Protection firm MarkMonitor estimates that Internet sellers are earning $137 Billion a year from selling counterfeit goods online.

Source:  Warwick Ashford, “Online counterfeits pose risk to buyers and manufacturers,” Computer Weekly, January 26, 2010.

The National Police Agency in Japan announced that there were 3,903 cases of marijuana in Japan in 2009.  The number of cases were up 74 from 2008, and was the fourth straight year of increasing.

Source: “Cannabis cases hit a high in ‘09,” Asahi, February 26, 2010.

In 2009, there were 2,899 murders in Medellin, Colombia, doubled the murder total in 2008.  The increase is directly attributed to  fighting between the estimated 150 to 300 drug gangs over territory in the region.

Source:  Nadja Drost, “In Medellín, a Disturbing Comeback of Crime,” Time, February 22, 2010.

According to a hearing in the United States Senate, US Senator Richard Durbin stated that an estimated 100,000 children fall victim to sex trafficking in the United States each year.

The Senator further stated that the  average age that a girl enters prostitution in the United States is 13.

Source: Richard Durbin, “In Our Own Backyard: Child Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in the United States,” Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law, February 24, 2010.

Abusing prescription drugs is the second most illegally used drugs in the United States after marijuana, according to the United Nations.

6.2 Million people in the United States were addicted to prescription drugs in the US in 2008.

Source:  Kate Kelland, “U.N. narcotics board warns of prescription drug abuse,” Reuters, February 24, 2010.

In 2010, there were only 50 tigers believed to be roaming in the wild versus 5,000 tigers raised in tiger farms in China.

Source:  Patrick Winn, “Can Vladimir Putin save the world’s tigers?,” GlobalPost, February 24, 2010.

According to the United Nations, in 2008 South America had 167,600 hectares devoted to cocaine production, a decrease of 8 percent of 2007.

The cultivation area of Colombia accounted for 430 tons of cocaine, or 48.3 percent of the total amount cultivated in South America. Peru accounted for 302 tons, or 33.5 percent of the total amount.

Source: “Peru may overtake Colombia in cocaine output: U.N.,” Reuters, February 23, 2010.

38 percent of all calls to the National Human Trafficking Resources Center originated from the state of Texas in 2008.

Source:  Alex Branch, “Texas cracking down on human traffickers,”Fort Worth Star Telegram, February 23, 2010.