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UN Report on Afghanistan’s Drug Problem: muddled and misleading

UN Report on Afghanistan’s Drug Problem: muddled and misleading

A recent report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) ‘muddies the water on one of the most important issues in the debate — the effects of Afghanistan’s drug production.’ Entitled Addiction, Crime, and Insurgency: The Transnational Threat of Afghan Opium, the report ‘gives the false impression that the Taliban are the main culprits [...]