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Step up counternarcotics efforts in Afghanistan
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Background
Cultivation and production of opium in Afghanistan have skyrocketed since the Taliban were toppled in 2001 such that Afghanistan now supplies 92 percent of the world’s illicit opium.
Working with the UK and the Afghan government, the United States developed its own strategy to counter the opium problem in Afghanistan, which has the following five pillars: alternative livelihoods, elimination and eradication, interdiction, law enforcement and justice reform, and public information. To provide support for these programs and projects, the United States in 2005 spent a total of $782 million.
[Strategic Studies Institute, Report by John A.Glaze, October 2007 - http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/]
Working with the UK and the Afghan government, the United States developed its own strategy to counter the opium problem in Afghanistan, which has the following five pillars: alternative livelihoods, elimination and eradication, interdiction, law enforcement and justice reform, and public information. To provide support for these programs and projects, the United States in 2005 spent a total of $782 million.
[Strategic Studies Institute, Report by John A.Glaze, October 2007 - http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/]
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