The Chinese connection -- The drug market in Burma -- Wholesale heroin trafficking -- Low-level heroin trafficking : ants-moving-house -- The social organization of entrepreneurial traffickers -- The retail heroin market in China -- Women in the heroin trade -- Drug treatment with a Chinese characteristic -- Combating drug trafficking -- Conclusion
Summary
In a country long associated with the trade in opiates, the Chinese government has for decades applied extreme measures to curtail the spread of illicit drugs, only to find that the problem has worsened. Burma is blamed as the major producer of illicit drugs and conduit for the entry of drugs into China. Which organizations are behind the heroin trade? What problems and prospects of drug control in the so-called "Golden Triangle" drug-trafficking region are faced by Chinese and Southeast Asian authorities?
