Afghan Overdose. Inside opium trade
Afghanistan is the world’s biggest exporter of black-market opium from which heroin is made. It’s a multi-billion dollar business, responsible for around a hundred thousand deaths every year and it’s a major source of income for terrorists. RT Doc travelled to the poppy fields where death is harvested to find out why no one can put a stop to this deadly trade. When it comes to heroin, a non-intervention policy is still going strong in Afghanistan where over 90% of the world’s black market opium is produced. Most finds its way onto the international drug market and the profits fund organized crime and terrorist groups like ISIS, which is growing in strength here. The dealers and manufacturers aren’t hard to find: they live in luxurious houses, have fields blooming with poppies and sell their narcotic wares in broad daylight. Even so, they still manage to evade arrest. Poppy fields are destroyed and drugs seized but it’s only ever the middle men who are punished, not the drug lords. There’s been a NATO military presence in the country for 14 years now but still, drugs production continues to grow. Local people suffer from the drug business too, around 18% of the capital’s population are drug addicts. The places where drugs are sold and used are well known but the police are powerless to act. Mafia wars drive civilians from their land in the southern regions, forcing them into refugee camps in their own country. Opium growers get rich by plunging fellow citizens into the depths of misery. RT Doc’s investigative team visited Afghanistan to document the Police’s losing battle against opium producers and its effect on the rest of the country. They talk to police officers, drug users and opium growers in search of a fuller picture and to ask why this massive and life-destroying industry continues to flourish. SUBSCRIBE TO RTD Channel to get documentaries firsthand! http://bit.ly/1MgFbVy FOLLOW US RTD WEBSITE: https://RTD.rt.com/ RTD ON TWITTER: http://twitter.com/RT_DOC RTD ON FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/RTDocumentary RTD ON DAILYMOTION http://www.dailymotion.com/rt_doc RTD ON INSTAGRAM http://instagram.com/rt_documentary/ RTD LIVE https://rtd.rt.com/on-air/
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Cops are cunts. The government fucking sucks. Fuck the war on drugs.
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Interesting documentary but you judging the addicts like ignorant retards. " don go near them you will get a disease". /faceplam thats the same stuff people said about gays and hive people in the 80s.Its bullshit . Plus you go on about the smell. Thast just cause you are rich and never had to live rough. Alos you want the police to come and "do something " to them. I find that ignorant also. The police can not help an addict unless that addict is committing alot of crimes. The problem is society in general thinks addicts need punishment. Thats not the case. They need education,patience, understanding, compassion and stability (which doesnt mean give in to their demands, on the contrary , saying NO to an addict is the best thing you can do, my thinking si simple they can get high if they want but they must do so on their own dollar)
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wow this is a messed up country it's sad
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scum journalist wouldn't have a story if they weren't able to bride dope fiends or stick cameras in people's business where they have no business
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i think the US dont want to stop the opium trade because they are making a lot of money with it
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should make a documentary about the soviet invasion of afghanistan and how it was lost but the Russian point of view of the story and in english please
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russia today should concentrate on the shithole russian country were children live in sewers and they have there own heroin addiction more than afghanistan
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sieze all trade with Afghanistan. since the war with Russia they have been profiting from the drug trade. producing heroin. ironic as they are devout Muslims. this heroin is distributed across the world and destroys lives. trading with Afghanistan is supporting the heroin trade. until something is done to stop heroin production boycot afghan products and goods.
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A world flooded with afghan heroin...another wonderful outcome of invasion of Afghanistan and then leaving it to drug cartels and war lords.
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opium and oil is why this war on terrorism was created.
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Almost 20 minutes before the anything anti American came up, that must be a new record.
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I have to say, I cannot fault the opium farmers. They have basically been put through hell by a conflict between nations which was so far above their head, they can barely understand it (nor can I). They are doing what is best for their family, nothing more. How can you expect them to have an affinity for the suffering of the end users of their opium, who live in countries which have been responsible for bombing their towns and killing their friends and family, intentionally or not?
I dislike the propaganda in this documentary. It suggests somehow America is corrupt. Well, friends, Russia is corrupt too. So is the UK, in fact, every single country in the world is corrupt, from the top down. It is always a question of choosing the lesser of two evils. In any case, it doesn't matter what, relatively innocent people will die. Leakage of political conquest. The human race is so fucking arrogant.
If Russia or the Western powers really wanted to stop opium farming, why not offer to pay the same price for other crops, as the farmers are getting for Opium? It's cheaper than war. Failing that, source the opium for medical use at a fair price and invest in some industrial infrastructure and security for the producers, to develop the country. If what Afghanistan is best at is growing opium, play to those strengths.
Something stinks, and it isn't the addicts under the bridge. -
I could cure every heroin addict in 3 days with Ibogain.
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Go and make a piece of toast.
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"Greasing the Wheel" sounds surprisingly the same in the US.
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Afghanistan The untold story Part 1,2,3 +4 For Anyone Serious about getting the story..
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Instead we have him 3 dollars and told him to get the fuck away.
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God it's very sad. once I remember during 80s to mid 90s people in Kabul and different provinces even didn't know how Heroin or other drugs looked like. I never ever seen a drug addicted person when I was in Afghanistan. The first time I saw an addict In America.
Some people were using pot but very few. You couldn't even buy pot on the street but now. I think we need our Dictators and dictatorships. these things happened in last 16 years. Screw democracy that we have here. I am not against Democracy but it's noting working here. -
Ohhh yes russian law, go to the streets to moscow, you thinks its better ? Crocodil , heroin , speed , mdma .... Your lier , fuck the russian trolls
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i am afghan and this reportage is very true
greetings for afghan police
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