{"id":8890,"date":"2013-07-11T11:54:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T11:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2016-09-20T18:33:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T18:33:02","slug":"drug-dealers-shift-focus-on-meth-heroin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2013\/07\/drug-dealers-shift-focus-on-meth-heroin\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug dealers shift focus on meth, heroin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drug traffickers in the central city of Da Nang have switched their focus on methamphetamine and heroin from opium and marijuana over the last two years, a senior police officer told a press conference on drug prevention on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant colonel Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Deputy Head of Counter Narcotics Office under the city&#8217;s Public Security Department, said the number of traffickers caught with methamphetamine in 2012 was seven times more than the amount in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Cuong added the city&#8217;s narcotics police force last year arrested a total of 128 drug offenders with 921.4 grams of methamphetamine, 54 grams of heroin and 133.6 grams of marijuana extracts.<\/p>\n<p>A report at the conference shows there are an estimated 1,500 addicts and drug users at rehabilitation centers across the city.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuoitrenews.vn\">www.tuoitrenews.vn<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 16th June 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drug traffickers in the central city of Da Nang have switched their focus on methamphetamine and heroin from opium and marijuana over the last two years, a senior police officer told a press conference on drug prevention on Friday. Lieutenant colonel Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Deputy Head of Counter Narcotics Office under the city&#8217;s Public Security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,43,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heroin-methadone","category-methamphetamine-ghb-hallucinogens-oxycodone","category-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}