Afghanistan grapples with drug addiction
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - Dost Mohammad was just eight years old when he began taking drugs while living across the border in Iran.
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Opium production in Afghanistan surged to record levels in 2006, increasing the flow of heroin to Europe and the Middle East and undermining the fight against Islamist insurgents, the US reported Thursday.
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Afghanistan&#39;s first directly elected president, Hamid Karzai, has warned that the country must face down radical extremists and defeat the drug trade.
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DOBUNDI, Afghanistan -- Anguish creased the weathered face of the opium farmer as a US-trained eradication team swept through his farm fields in this southern Afghan village.
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KABUL - Afghanistan&#39;s opium production is approaching record levels. A new United Nations report says drug production has shot up more than 60 per cent in the past year.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium The UN says heroin is big business in Afghanistan, and is calling on the United States and NATO to wage war on drug traffickers.
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Afghanistan is on its way to becoming a "narco-state" and U.S. and NATO-led forces in the country should get more involved in fighting the drug trade as well as terrorists, according to a U.N. report released Thursday.
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Heroin production is booming in Afghanistan, undermining democracy and putting money in the coffers of terrorists, according to a U.N. report Thursday that called on U.S. and NATO-led forces get more involved in fighting drug traffickers.
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With his inauguration to a five-year term a month away, the US-backed Karzai already is under pressure to ditch his coalition with powerful warlords and tackle a booming narcotics industry that has become a major economic force in one of the world&#39;s
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A new report on Afghanistan's drugs trade urges investment to provide alternative livelihoods for farmers.
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Afghanistan called on Tuesday for more help to stamp out opium production as donor nations gathered in Tokyo to try to coordinate policy on the struggling nation.
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MOSCOW  - Forensic tests have shown that some of the militants who took more than 1,000 people hostage in a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan last month were drug addicts, a senior prosecutor was quoted as saying Sunday.
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KABUL, Sept. 19 -- NATO and Afghan forces launched what officials called a "major military operation" against the Taliban in the southern province of Helmand, a haven for opium poppy cultivation and an insurgent stronghold that is considered Afghanistan's most violent territory.
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LONDON, November 20 (Online): Afghanistan is a &quot;narco-economy&quot; and as such a likely breeding ground for terrorists, Britain said yesterday, after the United Nations reported a 64 per cent increase in opium cultivation.
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Despite being urged to do so by Afghan and western counter-narcotics chiefs, British troops are wary of joining the offensive against the drugs trade in Afghanistan, The Daily Telegraph reported.
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KABUL , Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's criminal underworld has compromised key government officials who protect drug traffickers, allowing a flourishing opium trade that will not be stamped out for a generation, a UN report released yesterday said.
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Brussels - Opium growing in Afghanistan leapt by two-thirds this year, according to a new UN report on Thursday that warns the former Taliban stronghold could relapse into a &quot;narco-state&quot; and terrorism haven.