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Yuri Kozyrev
TIME Magazine

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David Guttenfelder
The Associated Press

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John Moore
Getty Images

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Ed Ou
Getty Images

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David Guttenfelder
The Associated Press

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"AFGHANISTAN OPIUM WARS"

A poppy bulb oozes opium paste in a field in Badakhshan Province. To harvest opium, farmers score the bulbs and then wait for the sticky paste to dry before scraping it into containers. Most of the opium is pressed into bricks and sent to refineries to be made into heroin, which is then smuggled out of Afghanistan. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that Afghan opium kills more people worldwide—up to 100,000 per year—than any other drug.