Main opioid trafficking routes into Europe

Publication date
04.06.2015

This interactive map from 2015 shows the main opioid trafficking routes from Asia to Europe (the Balkan route, the Southern route, the Northern route and the Caucasus route).

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Opioid trafficking routes from Asia to Europe (Perspectives on drugs)

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