{"id":14121,"date":"2014-01-21T15:44:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T14:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=14121"},"modified":"2014-01-23T19:20:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T18:20:10","slug":"drugs-and-organized-crime-are-threats-for-world-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/drugs-and-organized-crime-are-threats-for-world-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Drugs to Russia: The Impact of the Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"row-title\">Afghan Drugs to Russia: The Impact of the Connection<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russia is one of the largest markets for Afghan heroin. There are about 30,000 heroin-related deaths in Russia every year. Consequently, Russia faces some of the gravest health, socio-economic, and law enforcement challenges from Afghan narcotrafficking.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has supplied the main military force in the now 12-year-long NATO deployment in Afghanistan.\u00a0 During this period, the Afghan opium and heroin trafficking economy has expanded 40 times according to estimates.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan is the source for 80-90 percent of global opium production based on their poppy cultivation.\u00a0 This will likely continue to increase ahead of and after the 2014 ISAF withdrawal and U.S. drawdown.<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/drugs-and-organized-crime-are-threats-to-world-peace\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drugs and organized crime<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Original Report:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewi.info\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14131 alignleft\" alt=\"East West Institute\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/East-West-Institute.jpg\" width=\"191\" height=\"55\" \/><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frank-cs.org\/cms\/pdfs\/EWI\/EWI_JTA_Drugs_Afghanistan_11.4.13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Afghan Narcotrafficking A Joint Threat Assessment<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frank-cs.org\/cms\/pdfs\/EWI\/EWI_JTA_Drugs_Afghanistan_11.4.13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/drugs-and-organized-crime-are-threats-for-world-peace\/drugs-and-organized-crime-are-threats-for-world-peace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14122\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14122 aligncenter\" alt=\"Drugs And Organized Crime Are Threats For World Peace\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Drugs-And-Organized-Crime-Are-Threats-For-World-Peace-300x208.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Drugs-And-Organized-Crime-Are-Threats-For-World-Peace-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Drugs-And-Organized-Crime-Are-Threats-For-World-Peace-432x300.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Drugs-And-Organized-Crime-Are-Threats-For-World-Peace.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan Drugs to Russia: The Impact of the Connection Russia is one of the largest markets for Afghan heroin. There are about 30,000 heroin-related deaths in Russia every year. Consequently, Russia faces some of the gravest health, socio-economic, and law &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/drugs-and-organized-crime-are-threats-for-world-peace\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","post_format-post-format-aside"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14121"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14184,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14121\/revisions\/14184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}