Afghanistan's opium harvest ... the world's biggest supplier of illegal opium, the addictive narcotic that is made from the seed pods of poppies. The drug is ravaging the young, poor and ...

The growing of opium poppies in the Afghan provinces of Helmand and Kandahar is predicted to be down for the second year running. But a UN drugs forecast released on Monday says that poppy growing ...

And since the taliban introduced drug prohibition there, opium production has completely collapsed in Afghanistan ... Click on 'follow', next to our logo above.

NATO estimates that insurgents get half of their financing from drugs, nearly half a billion dollars. But with Afghanistan's opium economy totaling up to four billion dollars a year, the Taliban ...

Despite the State High Commission for Drug Control established by them at that time, more than 96% of all opium poppies were produced in Afghanistan under the Taliban’s jurisdiction.

The Taliban are strictly enforcing their drug ban for the third year in a row. As yet this has had surprisingly little impact on global opium and heroin markets. Bitte passen Sie die Einstellungen an.

UNITED NATIONS (CNN)-- The United Nations is calling on NATO to do more to stop the Afghan opium trade after a new survey showed how the drug dominates Afghanistan's economy. The report from the U ...

"According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, opium poppy cultivation and opium production in Afghanistan has decreased by 95%, yet opioids, such as heroin and opium, as well as Afghan-made ...