Rapid unplanned urbanisation has coincided with criminal networks willing to exploit the growing availability of heroin.
The rapid growth in the trade and consumption of heroin is having a direct and negative effect on urban politics and development in Africa. It is enabled by organised crime and corruption and has led to an 'untreated' public health crisis. Yet governments have scant understanding of the economic, security and social implications of an addictive substance being illegally peddled to vulnerable populations.
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