Drug seizure data suggests that 2025 has about half the level of trafficking in 2024.
Drug over deaths are declining but there is only data up to March 2025.
Drug trafficking levels are at the lowest levels in three years. If this correlates to lower trafficking deaths then the next four months should be at the 50,000-60,000 annualized rate. This will be down from 77000 for the last 12 months.
This would be down from the peak around 110,000-115,000 from late 2021 to early 2024.
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