Following Heroin Production Crackdown By Taliban, Criminal Enterprises Turning To Deadly Alternative Synthetics – OpEd

A crackdown on heroin production by the Taliban has successfully stemmed the flow of heroin from Afghanistan which had previously provided 95% of the UK heroin market. Following the Taliban crackdown, criminal enterprises are turning to deadly alternatives that has led to a boom in the easier-to-produce, cheap, but more deadly...