Narconomics : Metrics of Illicit Opium Trade in India

Drug money strikes the sustainable economy of all the distressed countries drastically. No country in the world slips away from the tainted hands of illicit drugs. The ill-gotten money generated from the drug trafficking business leads parallel economy and negatively impacts the economic system of an afflicted country. In the Indian context, as India is wedged between the worlds two largest illicit opium-producing regions, the Golden Crescent (Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan) and the Golden Triangle (Myanmar, Thailand and Laos), it is sternly afflicted with the drug menace. India acts as both, transit and destination of the drugs produced in these historical regions. Meantime, India too has an extensive history of licit and illicit production of opium. Despite the legal cultivation of opium is highly monitored by the central agency, the illicit diversion could not be ruled out. An enormous amount of money is involved in the illicit drug business. To deliver the unseen facts of the drug trade in India, an attempt has been achieved to research in this area and now it has come up in a book format. This book entitled, Narconomics - Metrics of Illicit Opium Trade in India brings the dark business of opium trade in India into the light. It explicates the ways of estimation of drug money generated from distinct sources such as illicit diversion of opium, trade after converting opium into heroin, illicit opium cultivation and seizure of drugs.