However, it said heroin then began to leak into African markets and a significant amount is now traded and consumed locally - with devastating impact.
"The bust took local authorities by surprise. Until then, the centrality of South Africa in the Southern Route – a network of routes taking Afghan heroin south across the Indian Ocean and through Africa en route to other markets – had gone largely unnoticed."The report charts the growth of the heroin trade in Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg.
The report said despite the risk to public health that injecting drug use presents, SA's state response to the heroin epidemic was weak in many respects.
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