Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is at record levels, according to a new report from the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. That's despite more than a decade of American efforts to knock out the Afghan drug trade—at a cost of roughly $7.6 billion. SIGAR's data, which comes from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), shows that Afghan opium cultivation nearly tripled between 1994 and 2013.
We Spent $7.6 Billion To Crush The Afghan Opium Trade—and It's Doing Better Than Ever
AJ Vicens, Mother Jones
Mon, 10/20/2014 - 9:05pm
Topics: united nations office drugs crime unodc john f sopko state john kerry attorney general eric holder rajiv shah prior us afghanistan&mdash state department charles randolph us embassy united states afghans the department defense michael d lumpkin din mohammad mobariz rashidi yury fedotov unodc hamid karzai office in special inspector general afghan afghanistan reconstruction i american sigar drug unodc sopko in usaid randolph kabul poppy trade problem efforts report government levels data reduce crop roughly percent due response secretary effort level
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