From India to Australia, Myanmar is Flooding Asia with Cheap Meth

In an article by Nikkei Asia, Francesca Regalado, Adam Saprinsanga, Faisal Mahmud, Thurein Hla Htway and Shaun Turton report the growing supply of meth from Myanmar amid the political instabilities due to the conflicts between the military regime and ethnic militias.

It was just a glimpse of an emboldened drug trade surrounding the highly addictive stimulant, expanding westward, eastward and overseas from Myanmar as civil war turned vast swaths of the country virtually lawless for three years.
Since orchestrating a takeover in February 2021, Myanmar's military regime has faced challenges in suppressing resistance from groups including pro-democracy factions and armed ethnic minorities. Violence escalated in October when a coalition of ethnic-minority factions initiated an offensive in northern Shan state, the epicenter of methamphetamine production.