Last year, the United Nations recovered a record 1 billion methamphetamine pills across East and Southeast Asia

Last year, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) warned that more than one billion methamphetamine tablets were seized in East and Southeast Asia.

According to the Vienna-based UN organisation, the massive narcotics haul throughout the broad territory is more indication that illicit manufacturing continues to develop uncontrolled, with "extreme volumes of methamphetamine" in production, as well as a diminishing number of....