Drug Abuse

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• About 50% of the world's cocaine is grown in Bolivia. May the Bolivian Evangelicals live holy, exemplary lives as they seek to bring change.

• Over 200,000 rural Peruvians are involved in cultivating narcotics.

• Afghanistan's opium harvest is now the world’s largest, with 90% production of the world is grown in this country, estimates are that 2006 6,100 tons were harvested by using 165,000 hektars.

• Myanmar's most successful export is opium.

• Thailand: In the three Southern provinces Pattani, Yala, and Songkhla are many problems. These are poverty, the abducted drugs, many unemployed youth and insurgent activities who are demanding more autonomy is still going on.

• Chewing Khat in Yemen and Somalia.