The vast majority of opium grown in Afghanistan goes to corporations who make pharmaceutical pain medications that are responsible for the heroin epidemic we are experiencing today. When addicts can no longer obtain the drugs legally, they turn to heroin which is cut with fentanyl that comes from Mexico via drug cartels. Some town morgues are so full with kids who have died from overdoses that they don’t know what to do.
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Wow. Thanks for that info. Yes, I had a suspicion that much of the opium from Afghanistan was being used in pharmaceuticals. I didn't look deeply into that angle. Do you know where to find good information, specifically numbers, on Big Pharma using Afghan opium?
It is still a black market, but much of what is produced in Afghanistan finds its way into China, and is sold to pharmaceutical companies as opium from there. That is why the CIA is so hell bent on protecting the production of Poppie production in Afghanistan. Even if Afghan Opium does find it’s way to America, it goes through Central America before being sold to America’s youth.