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STORY: UN / WORLD DRUG REPORT WRAP
TRT: 3.29
SOURCE: UNTV / UNODC
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 JUNE 2011, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT 2011, UNITED NATIONS NORTH LAWN BUILDING, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations North Lawn Building
23 JUNE 2011, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, conference room
2. Cutaway, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon entering room with UNODC’s Executive Director Yury Fedotov
3. Wide shot, audience and cameramen
4. Wide shot, podium
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Let us not blame people who become dependent on illicit drugs. And let us never shame them. Drug-dependent people should not be treated with discrimination, they should be treated by medical experts and counsellors. Drug addiction is a disease, not a crime.”
6. Wide shot, podium
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Yury Fedotov, Executive Director, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC):
“We need to address this threat with a clear plan of action. This calls for international cooperation at a national, regional, and international levels, centred at a holistic counter narcotics strategy. Our response must be comprehensive, balanced, and targeted. Supply reduction measures must go hand in hand with the efforts to reduce demand. Neither will be effective without the other.”
8. Cutaway, audience
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Kennedy Lawford, UNODC Goodwill Ambassador:
“I accepted this new position of Goodwill Ambassador for Drug Treatment, care and rehabilitation because I know personally the journey one has to go through to overcome drug addiction. I understand the tremendous need for help guidance and support people who are addicted and their families require to overcome and become healthy again. And I know recovery from drug dependence is possible for those who are given a chance.”
10. Cutaway, podium
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mackenzie Phillips, actress: 104844
“Being here today is so meaningful to me because I feel the pain of my brothers and sisters -and their certainly not genetic brothers and sisters- who are still suffering from addiction and alcoholism and I was taught to roll joints from my father and the age of 10, I was injected with cocaine by my father at the age of seventeen. I didn’t really have a chance.”
12. Wide shot, audience applauding
13. Wide shot, press conference
14. Cutaway, journalists
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Yury Fedotov, Executive Director, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC):
“This global drug threat has not diminished. While global markets for cocaine, heroine and cannabis declined or remain stable the production and abuse of prescription opiate drugs and new synthetic drugs rose. Although there was a decline in opium production and modest reduction in coca cultivation over all the manufacture of heroine and cocaine was still significant causing suffering a death t millions.”
16. Cutaway, journalists
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Yury Fedotov, Executive Director, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC):
“The US cocaine market has witnessed massive decline in recent years and nevertheless US and North America market continued to be the largest cocaine market equivalent to 36 percent of global consumption. It is followed by the European market which is the second largest.”
FILE / UNODC / DATE UNKNOWN, AFGHANISTAN
18. Med shot, farmers scrapping poppy capsules
19 Close up, measuring poppy capsule
20. Wide shot, farmer scrapping poppy capsule
FILE / UNTV / APRIL 2008, LIMA, PERU
21. Various shots, medicine on sale
FILE / UNTV / 9 APRIL 2011, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
22. Med shot, people coming to get medicine at pharmacy in clinic
23. Close up, medicine being handed over
While global markets for cocaine, heroin and cannabis declined or remained stable, the production and abuse of prescription opioid drugs and new synthetic drugs rose, the United Nations annual drug report said today.
The report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said that some 210 million people, or 4.8 per cent of the global population aged between 15 and 64, took illicit substances at least once in the previous year.
Launching the report today at the United Nations in New York, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noted that the toll on young people and children was especially heart-breaking and stressed that people who became dependent on illicit drugs should not be blamed for that, adding that "drug addiction is a disease, not a crime.”
Co-launching the report UNODC’s Executive Director Yury Fedotov emphasized the need to address the threat with a clear plan of action.
Fedotov said that the response “must be comprehensive, balanced, and targeted and that "supply reduction measures must go hand in hand with the efforts to reduce demand.”
Newly appointed UNODC Goodwill Ambassador, author and actor Christopher Kennedy Lawford said he had accepted the UNODC appointment because of his personal knowledge dealing drug addiction and alcoholism in the past.
Kennedy Lawford added, “I know recovery from drug dependence is possible for those who are given a chance.”
Actress and recovering addict Mackenzie Phillips expressed the importance of attending the meeting. “I feel the pain of my brothers and sisters -and they're certainly not genetic brothers and sisters- who are still suffering from addiction and alcoholism.”
Phillips who was initiated to smoking cannabis and injecting cocaine by her father at a very early age said, “I didn’t really have a chance.”
Later, at a press conference Yury Fedotov said the report found that the global drug threat had not diminished.
“While global markets for cocaine, heroine and cannabis declined or remain stable the production and abuse of prescription opiate drugs and new synthetic drugs rose."
Fedotov added that although there had been a decline in opium production as well as a “modest reduction” in coca cultivation “over all the manufacture of heroine and cocaine was still significant causing suffering a death to millions."
He also noted that although the cocaine market in the United States and North America had witnessed a massive decline in recent years, “nevertheless US and North America market continued to be the largest cocaine market equivalent to 36 percent of global consumption." Fedotov said it was followed by the European market “which is the second largest.”
The report noted that global opium poppy cultivation reached some 195,700 hectares (ha) in 2010, a small increase over 2009. Opium production declined, however, by 38 per cent to 4,860 tons due to a blight that wiped out much of the opium harvest in Afghanistan.
Nonetheless, the bulk of opium production still took place in Afghanistan (3,600 tons or 74 per cent of the global total). While cultivation in Afghanistan remained stable, the global trend was mainly driven by increases in Myanmar, where cultivation rose by some 20 per cent from 2009.
The global area under coca cultivation shrank to 149,100 ha in 2010, an 18 per cent drop from 2007. During that time, potential cocaine production fell by about one-sixth, reflecting the significant decrease in cocaine production in Colombia. Consequently, this decline was not offset by small increases in Peru and the Plurinational State of Bolivia.
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