Voice of America - China has admitted that more than 14 million people or about one percent of the country’s massive population has used drugs. It has also disclosed for the first time that drug use has spread to as much as 90 percent of the country's cities, districts and counties.
“The official figures provided by the Chinese government about drug use, have always been on the low end,” said Martin Jelsma, an expert with the Drugs & Democracy Program of the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute (TNI). “In the past they were based on amounts of registered drug users, which obviously only represent a small proportion of the total amount of people who use drugs.”
Read the full article.
Si deseas apoyar nuestro trabajo, considera realizar una donación. Nos comprometemos a que nuestra valiosa investigación esté accesible sin costo, pero para eso necesitamos de tu ayuda. Si todas las personas que leen nuestro contenido realizan una donación de tan solo €12 podremos apoyar nuestro trabajo durante tres años.
