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Taliban’s opium ban imperiled by climate change as alternative crops struggle
Washington Post· 2 days agoTwo years after the Taliban banned opium, Afghan farmers turning to alternative crops are...
‘A ticking time bomb’: Grieving mother’s warning over deadly Chinese opioid epidemic
The Independent via Yahoo News· 6 days agoCheap to ship from China with similar effects to heroin, the substances are flooding the UK drugs...
UN envoy defends failure to include Afghan women in upcoming meeting with the Taliban in Qatar
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe United Nations' top official in Afghanistan defended the failure to include Afghan women in the...
Nobel Prize Nominee Explains How California Wine Industry Helped Her Create ‘Roots Of Peace’
Forbes· 6 days agoIn her 30s, Heidi Kuhn, a mother of three young children, was diagnosed with malignant cervical...
Afghanistan: Spring Stumbles Into View
Strategy Page· 4 days agoThe Taliban are responsible for security over large areas (farms where poppies are grown, roads and border areas where drugs are smuggled out and chemicals for turning opium
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 6 days agoIllegal fentanyl seems to be everywhere in the US. Synthetic opioids (largely fentanyl) were linked to more than 70,000 drug overdose deaths in the US in 2021, up from fewer than 58,000 the ...
