Heroin lab menace grows in Afghanistan
World News • March 2010 • Views: 244
According to a survey of global counter-narcotics efforts, Afghanistan remains the world’s top producer of opium despite a 22% decline in the area under poppy cultivation there during 2009. Historically, traffickers have exported raw opium produced in Afghanistan to other countries for processing into heroin and other opiates. In recent years, however, the country has emerged as one of the biggest producers of refined products.