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The pandemic is pushing more people into drug use, while illegal cultivation could also get a boost as joblessness increases globally, the UN has said,
The Vienna-based United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which each year pulls together data from its wide network of member countries in its annual report, said its report showed that drug markets have swiftly resumed operations after initial disruption at the onset of the pandemic.
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A former soldier has fired gunshots in a coronavirus field hospital in Thailand, killing a 54-year-old patient after earlier shooting dead a convenience store employee, police said.
The suspect, 23, believed that the patients in the hospital in Pathum Thani near Bangkok were people depdendent on drugs, who he generally despises, regional police chief Amphol Buarabporn told Reuters, after an initial investigation.
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