During 2006, a total of 479 drug-related arrests were reported by law enforcement agencies in Lao PDR, all
of which involved methamphetamine in pill form. The number of methamphetamine-related arrests in 2006
was almost 20 percent higher that the 402 reported during the previous year. Seizures of illicit drugs in
Lao PDR during 2006 continued to involve only three categories, namely cannabis, opiates (opium and
heroin), and methamphetamine. Cannabis seizures measured more than a ton in 2004, declined to only
1.6 kilograms in 2005, and increased to 291.5 kilograms in 2006. Seizures of methamphetamine pills in
2006 at 1,755,989 placed it around the same level as 2004 and down sharply from the record seizure of
more than four and a half million yaba pills in 2005.