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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jennifer Peltz

The issue of drugs doesn't usually get showcased at the UN General Assembly. This year is different

UN General Assembly Colombia - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Every year, tons of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs flow around the world, an underground river that crisscrosses borders and continents and spills over into violence, addiction and suffering. Yet when nations' leaders give the U.N. their annual take on big issues, drugs don't usually get much of the spotlight.

But this was no usual year.

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