Highlights
● Abuse of methamphetamine pills is the leading drug problem in Lao PDR based on data from
treatment and law enforcement indicators and the latest reports cited an increase in the trend in
abuse.
● Methamphetamine pills dominated drug seizures during 2006, but the quantity of 1,755,989 pills
seized represented a 62 percent decline over the record seizures made in 2005.
● Opium production in 2007 reached the lowest level since the start of the surveys in 1992 and
corresponds to only 5 percent of the potential opium production of the year 2000 (or 7 percent
of the production in 1998).