Crystal crescent, Matthew C. DuPée on the spread of the methamphetamine trade in south west Asia

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DuPée, Matthew C.
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2011
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March/April 2011
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As the 21st century unfolds, Afghanistan finds itself in a profound socio-economic crisis. It is one in which the illegal drug trade and insurgency plays a very complex and important role. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the global dynamics of the illicit opiates market “are not well understood” – and the same can be said of south west Asia’s transforming narcotics industry. All the attention given to Afghanistan’s poppy problem obscures the rapidly growing distribution, trade and production of other narcotics in the region.
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Druglink, March / April 2011, pp. 22-23
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
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