Drug abuse and related crimes reached unprecedented...

Drug abuse and related crimes reached unprecedented levels worldwide last year, even posing a threat to the security of some countries, a U.N. report released in Vienna said. The report, by the International Narcotics Control Board, did not elaborate on the national security issue, but it may have been alluding to the assassination of Colombia’s justice minister last May after he declared war on drug traffickers. “Very few countries remain unaffected” by drug problems, the report said.