Networks critical to disrupting illegal medicines trade in Asia
This article was originally published in SRA
Executive Summary
A new report on transnational organized crime in East Asia and the Pacific from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) makes sobering reading1. Not only for its overview of billions of dollars in illicit trade in narcotics, counterfeit goods, wildlife and people, but also because it tries to quantify Asia's fake medicines problem.