And locals have been enticed into the business.

Local accomplices in places like Fiji, you know, act as facilitators.

they are paid with cash, but also in kind, i.e. with drugs.

So we can argue that one of the factors leading to the establishment of a local consumption market for methamphetamine, or ICE, as it is locally known in Fiji, Local facilitators transporting, let's say, 20 kilos of mat would be told, well, you help us transport these rugs, and of those 20 kilos, you keep five for yourself.

And those five kilos would then enter the local Fijian market.

Drug users become street dealers as a way of funding their habit.

This is what has propelled the establishment of domestic markets in the Pacific.

Virginia Camolli has been tracking the change.