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U.N. Report Documents How Opium Contributes To Spread of Disease, Deaths
The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Wednesday released a report -- "Addiction, Crime and Insurgency: The Transnational Threat of Afghan Opium" -- documenting how "[t]he smuggling of Afghan opiates is fueling addiction and drug use along trafficking routes from Iran to Central Asia," and contributing to the spread of diseases, the Associated Press reports (Oleksyn, 10/21).
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