AFGHANISTAN: Insurgents integrate opium value chain

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  • Buoyant production
  • Farmer-warlord-dealer benefits
  • Individual farmers
  • Local warlords
  • Processors
  • Taliban
  • Traffickers
  • Transnational networks
  • Southern route
  • Balkan route
  • Northern route
  • Prospects
  • Enforcement failings
  • Intractable corruption
  • Taliban involvement
  • Sophisticated market management
  • Heroin use not declining

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