The worldwide illicit drugs business is by far the most profitable illicit global trade, says the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC, earning some billion annually. Compared to this, human trafficking at billion and illegal firearms at billion are a drop in the bucket. Afghanistan, producing of the world's illegal opium from its miles and miles of poppy farms, is by far the world's largest contributor to the production of illicit heroin and morphine. For millions of addicts around the world, the dark force from Afghanistan that rules their lives can only be overcome through drug rehab.Not surprisingly, no one has come up with a workable idea on how to stop it. The problem is that the chain of "narcodollars" reaches from the poppy farms all the way to the highest levels of Afghanistan's government, with the Taliban insurgents in the mix in a very big way. At . billion, the opium trade is the equivalent of a third of the country's total economy. Last yea...
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