Drug TraffickingOpioidsEurope Remains Safe Despite Growing Afghan Heroin AdulterationRay Tomlinson.Jun 9, 2025Three years after Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, announced his religious edict banning poppy cultivation, Afghan…
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Drug PolicyDrugs & DevelopmentLanguage Matters: Is My Country a “Narco-state”?Paulina Cortez Licona.Jul 11, 2023The term “narco-state” has been used by politicians, journalists, and law enforcement agencies since the 1980s. While it was initially…