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International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking – 26 June
June 30 , 2018
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- The International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking is observed every year on June 26 across the world to raise awareness of a major problem that illicit drugs.
- The day was officially instituted by UN after UN General Assembly (UNGA) by adopting a resolution in December 1987.
- The date was chosen to commemorate Lin Zexu’s (Chinese scholar and official of the Qing dynasty) dismantling of the opium trade in Humen, Guangdong, just before the First Opium War in China (1839–42).
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