We all know that drugs is an issue, everywhere. Every country has citizens who have addiction issues and the associated problems with it. Our issue in Canada and the USA is how expansive it is and just how large of a problem it's become. As I have said, we have normalized it.
I am not the expert on policy or specific statistics but in a lot of Asian and Middle Easter culture, drug use and drug abuse and the associated problems are vastly limited.
Cities/countries with very low use and abuse/problems I am aware of include
Tokyo, Japan, Singapore, Zurich, Athens, Thessaloniki, Prague, Frankfurt, Seoul and a lot more.
There are differences to drug use and drug related crime on the street. We know we have an issue with crack and meth etc but we don't have any issue with office workers who do cocaine and proceed to assault ,rape, paralyze people on the street. I don't condone or do drugs but the problems are usually different.
In Japan, the culture of drugs is that they almost ruin you professionally because of the stigma.
In Middle Eastern cultures they will just take justice out on you in the form of a beating and more. You don't have mountains of meth heads running around raping girls and attacking random people on the street.
We have people on the west coast of Canada and the US who literally are leaving their cars unlocked so that they don't need to deal with broken windows cause there is such a high degree of certainty the car will be opened looking for valuables.
I have traveled a lot in my life but the places where the drug addiction and the associated problems are always highest is in Canada and the USA.
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