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Afghanistan’s Addiction Crises

22nd October, 2021 · admin
Posted in Drugs, Economic News, Health News | Tags: Drug Addiction, opium, Poppy cultivation |
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Why the only winner of America’s war in Afghanistan is opium

28th August, 2021 · admin

New York Post: Between 2002 and 2019, American taxpayers spent at least $9 billion to eliminate or transform the poppy fields that produced almost all of the world’s heroin — but instead ended up tripling that production, quadrupling the acreage covered by the deadly flowers, and intensifying the insurgency that plagued the country.  As a

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Posted in Drugs, Economic News | Tags: heroin, opium, Poppy cultivation |
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Afghanistan Starts New Drive To Weed Out Poppies In Counternarcotics Campaign

8th June, 2021 · admin
Posted in Drugs, Economic News | Tags: heroin, opium, Poppy cultivation |
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UN Survey Finds 37% Spike in Afghan Poppy Cultivation

3rd May, 2021 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News May 3, 2021 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – The United Nations said Monday that opium cultivation in conflict-ridden Afghanistan increased by 37% in 2020 compared to the previous year, potentially producing an estimated 6,300 tons of opium. The findings are part of a new survey the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

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Posted in Drugs, Economic News, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Helmand, opium, Poppy cultivation |
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Opium production in Afghanistan increased in 2019: US

8th February, 2020 · admin

1TV: In a statement on results of its annual estimate of Afghanistan opium, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said output of opium made from poppy seeds in Afghanistan stood at around 6,700 metric tons last year. That was compared with 5,500 metric tons in 2018. Click here to read more (external

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Posted in Drugs, Economic News | Tags: Drug Addiction, opium |
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How the US military’s opium war in Afghanistan was lost

26th April, 2019 · admin · 180 Comments

BBC News: Despite the incredible resources the American military were pouring in, Dr Mansfield and his team are now convinced that the US Air Force was using 21st century fighter jets to bomb little more than mud huts. Opium now accounts for around a third of Afghanistan’s GDP, he says. It is by far the country’s biggest

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Posted in Drugs, Economic News, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: opium, Poppy cultivation |
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Poppies bloom across Afghanistan as drought eases

18th April, 2019 · admin · 10 Comments

AFP: A vast field of towering white poppies sways gently in the breeze, silky petals sometimes tumbling to the ground, a visible marker of the resilience of Afghanistan’s lucrative opium trade. The sight of a seemingly endless expanse of opium-producing flowers is common across rural Afghanistan, but this farm is in the centre of government-controlled Lashkar

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Posted in Drugs, Economic News | Tags: opium, Poppy cultivation |
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Pakistan Hosts Regional Meeting on Countering Afghan Opiates

13th December, 2018 · admin · 7 Comments

Ayaz Gul VOA News December 12, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran have pledged to increase cooperation and information-sharing for effectively combating the trafficking of Afghan opiates. War-shattered Afghanistan remains the world’s largest producer of opium, though the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime noted in its latest survey the opium cultivation decreased by 20 percent in

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Posted in Drugs, Economic News, Iran-Afghanistan Relations, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: opium, Poppy cultivation |
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Airstrike, Taliban Raid Kill More Than 21 Afghan Security Forces

7th December, 2018 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News December 7, 2018 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban has killed at least 14 Afghan soldiers and taken more than 20 others hostage in the western Afghan province of Herat, which borders Iran, officials confirmed Friday. Separately, a counter-Taliban airstrike in central Uruzgan province killed at least seven Afghan security forces. The latest violence

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Posted in Drugs, Security, Taliban | Tags: Afghan Army, Herat, opium, Poppy cultivation, Uruzgan |
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UN: Afghan Opium Cultivation Down 20 Percent

19th November, 2018 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News November 19, 2018 ISLAMABAD — A new United Nations survey finds that opium cultivation in Afghanistan has decreased by 20 percent in 2018 compared to the previous year, citing a severe drought and falling prices of dry opium at the national level. The total opium-poppy cultivation area decreased to 263,000 hectares, from

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Posted in Drugs, Economic News | Tags: opium, Poppy cultivation |
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