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.

In April 2022, Afghanistan’s de-facto authorities banned all cultivation of opium poppy under strict new laws. Opium is the essential ingredient for manufacturing the street drug heroin ...

A farmer squats with his back to the flowers, weeding an adjacent ... For centuries, opium wafted over Afghanistan before engulfing it altogether. Though Alexander the Great could not totally ...

Of the 454 British soldiers who died in the recent conflict in Afghanistan, all but five lost their lives in Helmand. The province is also at the heart of by far the most productive opium-growing ...

The Taliban has freed two Americans held in Afghanistan as part of a prisoner swap. The release came in return for the ...

UNODC announced last year that Myanmar had overtaken Afghanistan ... opium cultivation. Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers.

However, regional disparities in cultivation levels and uncertainties surrounding the global opium market—particularly in relation to the drug ban in Afghanistan—suggest that Myanmar’s opium ...