As of 2021, Afghanistan's harvest produces more than 90% of illicit heroin globally, and more than 95% of the European supply. [1][2] More land is used for opium in Afghanistan than is used for coca cultivation in Latin America. The country has been the …

2022年6月2日 · WASHIR, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipe out the country's massive production of opium and heroin, even as...

2023年6月6日 · In April 2022, Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada decreed that cultivation of the poppy - from which opium, the key ingredient for the drug heroin can be extracted - was strictly...

The production of opiates (opium, morphine, and heroin) has arguably been Afghanistan’s largest and most reliable illegal economic activity. Until last year, the income from the manufacture and trafficking of heroin exceeded the income of farmers who cultivated opium by far, and the value of

2023年11月5日 · Opium poppy, which grows extensively in Afghanistan’s southern fields, contains the main opium ingredient used to manufacture heroin. Afghanistan was previously the world’s top opium...

Heroin laboratories are restricted to ungoverned areas near the border with Pakistan, such as Helmand’s Dishu district and Nangarhar’s Achin district. Mobile labs have been reportedly used in both Helmand and Nangarhar and consist of gas fired stoves attached to the back of large trucks.

2024年12月18日 · At its height, the Taliban oversaw a narco-state here, a farm-to-table drug operation with hundreds of field labs processing opium into heroin and wild ephedra into methamphetamines for...

2024年9月12日 · Launched soon after they retook power in 2021, the Taliban’s campaign against narcotics has drastically reduced opium poppy cultivation and upended Afghanistan’s drug economy. Driven by...

2021年8月16日 · The United States spent more than $8bn over 15 years on efforts to deprive the Taliban of their profits from Afghanistan’s opium and heroin trade, from poppy eradication to air attacks and...

Launched soon after they retook power in 2021, the Taliban’s campaign against narcotics has drastically reduced opium poppy cultivation and upended Afghanistan’s drug economy. Driven by ideology, the Taliban’s anti-drug efforts include rounding up drug users, eradicating crops, and shuttering drug bazaars.