Today is the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. This is a United Nations International Day, chosen by the General Assembly by resolution 42/112 of 7 December 1987.

Since then, every year the world community remembers one of its main goals, which is to create a world without drugs. The world community has been trying to stop drug abuse and to control drug trafficing for more than 100 years, yet the problem has not been solved up to now, and thousands of people continue to die because of drug abuse. 

The drug abuse problem is rather serious in Armenia, too: on 2013, there were 4332 officially registered drug addicts here (the number of not registered ones is of course much bigger), which is 50 percent more than two years ago. Most drug addicts are 29-49 years old, but there are much younger addicts, too. As for the most "popular drugs" in Armenia, those are cannabis, opium and cocaine.