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9780745326177

Drugs in Afghanistan Opium, Outlaws and Scorpion Tales

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  • ISBN13:

    9780745326177

  • ISBN10:

    074532617X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-01-20
  • Publisher: Pluto Press

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Summary

Exposes the devastation that the heroin trade and drug addiction is causing within Afghanistan.

Author Biography

David Macdonald is a sociologist who has specialised in drug control for over 20 years. Since 1999 he worked as the demand reduction advisor for the UN drugs control programme in Afghanistan with UNODC and also with the Ministry of Counter Narcotics in Kabul.

Table of Contents

Map
List of abbreviations
Glossary of terms
Acknowledgements
Prologue
1. Introduction
2. Scorpion tales
3. A nation in anguish
4. Opium cultivators
5. Heroin producers and traffickers
6. Outlaws and warlords
7. Drug use in Afghanistan's history
8. Neighbours and refugees
9. A tale of two opiums
10. Hashish and hakims
11. Pharmaceuticals and chemical cocktails
12. Masters of the universe: other drugs and future dimensions
13. Scorpion tails
Postscript
Notes
Index

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