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There is still increasing production of synthetic drugs and ATS in some countries.

In other sectors, however, the situation was discouraging, as in the case of illicit manufacture of opium and amphetamine type stimulants, which had continued to rise.

While global coca cultivation and cocaine manufacture had declined steadily since 1999, global illicit opium production and amphetamine type stimulants were on the increase.

In Africa and the Middle East, while information on drug abuse is scarce, regional expertise confirms an increase in the abuse of cannabis and some evidence of increase in the abuse of heroin and ATS.

Examples of operational cooperation were provided where large consignments of illicit drugs heroin, cocaine and amphetamine type stimulants had been recovered in international operations involving law enforcement agencies from different States and regions.

The Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 is a United Nations treaty designed to control psychoactive drugs such as amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, and psychedelics signed in Vienna, Austria on 21 February 1971.