{"id":19493,"date":"2025-06-22T17:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T16:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=19493"},"modified":"2025-06-22T17:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T16:59:12","slug":"most-essential-strategy-for-halting-flow-of-drugs-is-prevention-says-secretary-general-marking-international-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2025\/06\/most-essential-strategy-for-halting-flow-of-drugs-is-prevention-says-secretary-general-marking-international-day\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Most Essential Strategy for Halting Flow of Drugs\u2019 Is Prevention, Says Secretary-General, Marking International Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"site-header__main-wrapper sticky-top bg-white border-top border-4 border-un-blue\">\n<div id=\"header__main\" class=\"site-header__main\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center flex-nowrap\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div id=\"block-un3-press-branding\" class=\"clearfix site-branding d-flex align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"site-logo flex-shrink-0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; 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font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">SG\/SM\/22690 &#8211; 18 June 2025<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"layout layout--onecol\">\n<div class=\"layout__region layout__region--content\">\n<div class=\"block block-layout-builder block-field-block-node-press-field-display-title\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"block-content\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-display-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item\">\n<h1 class=\"page-header\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;\">Following is UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres\u2019 message on the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, observed on 26 June:<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"block block-layout-builder block-field-block-node-press-body\">\n<div class=\"block-content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">&#8221; The global illicit drug trade continues to exact a devastating toll: \u00a0claiming lives, ravaging public health services and fuelling violence and organized crime.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">Drug trafficking is tearing through communities with substances that are more potent, more dangerous and more deadly than ever. \u00a0Meanwhile, criminal networks prey on the most vulnerable \u2014 particularly women and youth \u2014 as they rake in hundreds of billions annually through the illicit drug trade.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">This year, we shine a light on prevention as the most essential strategy for halting the flow of drugs that fuels organized crime worldwide.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">We must reduce demand through investing in education, treatment, harm-reduction measures and care; target the machinery of production by eliminating illicit laboratories and offering farmers viable alternatives; and sever trafficking networks by strengthening global trade routes and choking the financial flows of criminal networks, while always ensuring respect for human rights.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">Let us recommit to ending drug abuse and trafficking, uniting to dismantle criminal networks and breaking the cycle of suffering and destruction once and for all. &#8220;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;\">Source: https:\/\/press.un.org\/en\/2025\/sgsm22690.doc.htm<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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