United Nations Office on Drug and Crime

Aayush Mahapatra
Director of Humanitarian Committee

Divina Kaushik
Director of Humanitarian Committee
Agenda: Discussing the Increasing Rate of Drug Trafficking and Global Drug Overdose Mortality with special emphasis on the Synthetic Opioid Epidemic
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Additional Directors: Aishani Purohit, Tejas Veer Singh, Shaurya Banerjee
“Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrong governmental policies have destroyed many more.”- Kofi Anan
Substance misuse and drug trafficking pose a serious problem that has become a catastrophe. Drug overdose deaths, which take hundreds of thousands of lives every year, are alarmingly linked to the surge in drug trafficking. The epidemic of synthetic opioids, in particular, highlights the narcotics' great risk and the detrimental socioeconomic effects they have on communities. To put successful preventative and treatment ideas into practice, immediate action is required.
The versatility of synthetic opioids is a major contributing factor to their widespread use. Traffickers create innovative chemical formulas that go beyond current regulatory restrictions in an effort to avoid discovery. Governments and law enforcement agencies are overburdened by this "cat-and-mouse" dynamic between traffickers and regulators, making it challenging to keep up with the quickly changing drug trafficking scenario.
The outbreak of synthetic opioids also brings up important issues of justice and equity. Even though these drugs are unquestionably dangerous, opioids have a place in palliative care and in the treatment of chronic illness patients' pain.
The delegates must carefully balance preventing illegal usage with guaranteeing access to life-saving drugs for individuals who truly need them.
The lives lost to this crisis are not just mere statistics, they represent individuals, families and communities torn apart by addiction and illicit trade. As the committee deliberates on this agenda, the delegates must ask themselves: How can the international community unite to save lives while dismantling the networks that profit from death and despair?
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