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In 2015, the country still accounted for almost two thirds of the global area under illicit opium poppy ... in the field, as well as increasing capacity to more broadly analyse and counter the illicit ...

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Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee, including V.I. Delegate to Congress Stacey Plaskett, held a press conference ...

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UNODC announced last year that Myanmar had overtaken Afghanistan ... there in opium cultivation. Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers.

In the early hours of September 14 2021, three men parked in a quiet car park in the southern English market town of Abingdon-on-Thames.