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The heroin epidemic advancing on Russia - 4/4/2010 2:59:04 PM

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8600847.stm

Since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, opium production in Afghanistan has risen dramatically. Russia's geographic proximity to the region has made it a huge consumer - sending thousands of Russians to an early grave every year./snip

so there you have it. throw the US troops in to guard this crop. ooops.