Noticing COVID impacts through drug supply chains and enforcement

I doubt there is a single area of life not impacted by the global pandemic, and thus these recent next stories about impacts on the drug trade and enforcement are not shocking though still interesting:

• From NPR, “Pandemic Disrupts Illegal Drug Trade, Upending Both Product And Profits“

• From Foreign Affairs, “The Pandemic Has Triggered Dramatic Shifts in the Global Criminal Underworld“

• From NBC News, “COVID-19 is costing drug cartels millions of dollars“

The NPR story summarizes some of the findings in this big new “Research Brief” coming from the United Nations titled “COVID-19 and the drug supply chain: from production and trafficking to use.”