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Dope flood continues,
despite record hauls
By JAMES CARY
Copley News Service
WASHINGTON - Despite
record seizures of illegal drug
shipments, the United States is
still being inundated by a grow
ing flood of narcotics from the
Middle East, Southeast Asia
and other areas including
Mexico.
Recent studies have shed
some light on the over-all size
of this traffic and some of the
underlying reasons why, de
spite progress, there is no drop
in the supply of illicit narcotics
in this country.
Among the more recent was
an 11-nation examination con
ducted by Rep. Seymour Hal
pern, R-N.Y., for the House
Foreign Affairs Committee this
year.
Halpern returned with many
of the same conclusions and
facts reported by others earlier
and already known to the Bu
reau of Narcotics and Danger
ous Drugs.
But his report also produced
some new insights into the size
of the traffic — the mathe
matics of it — which point up
how much more must be done
before the drug scourge will be
gin to give way to control ef
forts.
On the plus side is the in
creasing impact of enforce
ment efforts.
The U.S. Bureau of Customs
reported in July that it seized
more narcotics entering this
country from abroad in the pre
vious 12 months than it had in
the last eight years.
Valued as high as SSOO mil
lion, the seizures included 937
pounds of heroin, 360 pounds of
cocaine, 176,468 pounds of
marijuana and 3,163 pounds of
hashish.
The U. S. Bureau of Narcotics
and Dangerous Drugs has had
equal success, reporting
seizures in calendar year 1970,
here and overseas, of 427
pounds of heroin worth
$186,240,000 at street prices.
This was an increase of more
than 200 per cent.
The bureau also intercepted
197 pounds of cocaine, 17,402
pounds of marijuana, 7.2 mil
lion dosage units of stimulants,
2.4 million dosage units of de
pressants and 7.1 million
dosage units of hallucinogens.
All of these represented mas
sive increases ranging from 49
per cent to more than 200 per
cent over the previous year’s
performances.
In addition, there are the not
insignificant seizures being
made by state and local offi
cers throughout the country.
But despite such improve
ment, heroin, for example,
keeps coming with no sign of
any drop in supply for Amer
ican addicts.
To enforcement officers this
indicates the possible existence
of massive heroin reserves al
ready in the country, inade
quate disruption of the inflow
and ever growing illegal pro
duction of opium in many areas
of the world.
Some of the newer statistics
show why this is possible.
The National Institute of
Mental Health estimates there
are 250,000 heroin addicts in the
United States. John Ingersoll,
director of the Bureau of
Narcotics and Dangerous
Drugs, places the total at
330,000.
There have also been esti
mates of up to 60,000 U.S. serv
icemen in Vietnam who have
used heroin, although this
figure is under challenge as too
high. Rep. Halpern reported,
without giving figures, that
New York City alone had lost
more lives from drug over
doses in the last eight years
than the entire state of New
York has lost to the war in
Vietnam.
It takes an estimated 50 to 60
tons of opium annually to feed
the habits of the U.S. addicts,
or more precisely five to six
tons of heroin. It takes 10 tons
of opium to make one ton of its
alkaloid derivative, heroin.
Throughout the world an esti
mated 3,000 tons of opium are
produced every year, 1,200 tons
of it for legal medicinal pur
poses, leaving 1,800 tons of il
licit production.
Os this total, Turkey pro
duces 100 to 150 illicit tons of
opium, Burma 300 to 600 tons,
Laos 80 to 150 and Thailand 200
tons. This means that Burma,
Laos and Thailand, known as
the “Golden Triangle,” are ac
counting for 580 to 750 tons of il
legal opium or 58 to 75 tons of
heroin a year.
For present, 75 to 80 per cent
of the heroin entering the
United States comes from Tur
key, with no apparent decrease
in volume despite a govern
ment program there that has
reduced the number of prov
inces growing opium from 42
in 1967 to four in 1971. On July 1,
1972, all opium production in
Turkey is to be halted.
Another 15 per cent of heroin
used by American addicts
comes from Mexico, and only 5
per cent from Southeast Asia
and other areas of the world.
Even if Turkey is successful
next year in ending illicit
opium production, no diminish
ing of the supply in the United
States is expected. The traffic
from Southeast Asia is ex
pected to increase enough to fill
the void quickly.
This is possible because the
International Criminal Police
Organization (Interpol) esti
mates that police and customs
services are intercepting only 5
to 10 per cent of illicit drug
shipments.
Stated another way: 90 to 95
per cent of the drugs reach
their destination.
All these statistics juxta
posed indicate what American
enforcement officials are up
against.
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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, Nov. 18,1971
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