Blog 3: Organized Crime, Fraudulent medeicne

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime began a conference today on the illicit trafficking of fraudulent medicine. Fake medicine has proven to be extremely dangerous and at some instances, fatal. Unfortunately, its an extremely lucrative business, and because of that, organized crime will continue to manufacture these fake drugs in order to satisfy their insatiable desire to keep making money. Countless high end officials have come together in order to come up with a counter acting proposal that will limit the availability of these illegal manufacturers and make it more difficult for them to endanger public health.
The Executive director of the UNODC, Yury Fedotov stated that fraudulent medicines pose a 3 pronged concern when it comes to health threats, development changes, and the role of organized crimes on a transcontinental scale. Mr Fedotov highlighted the critical role the UN would have to play when it comes to investigating, building cases, and eventually shutting down the institutions that are either directly involved with or manufacturing these falsified medicines.

It seems like the UN has a major issue here to deal with, in order to slow down and even stop the manufacture and distribution of these fraudulent drugs. It will take countless organizations collaborating together to seek out and punish the wrong doers. The distribution of drugs in this case medical drugs, is an extremely lucrative business, even more so when they manufacture them illegally and don't measure up to safety regulations its an extremely dangerous situation. The UN has a major task ahead of them, seeking out and infiltrating these manufacturers in order to shut down their massive operation that is directly affecting public safety on a global scale.