
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh -- Methamphetamine has become an increasingly corrosive influence in Bangladesh, with the number of pills seized by the authorities spiralling from the thousands into the tens of millions in just a few years.
Local authorities confiscated 81,000 tablets in 2010, according to the government's Department of Narcotics Control which estimates that by 2016, the figure had risen to 29.5 million.