Is Afghanistan a Narco-State?

Opium in Afghanistan

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Opium in Afghanistan Navigator
A list of resources from around the Web about opium in Afghanistan as selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times.

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

• National Development Strategy 2008-2013
• Counter Narcotics Strategy

United States and United Kingdom

• Fighting the Opium Trade in Afghanistan: Myths, Facts, and Sound Policy, March 11, 2008

• Policing the Poppy Fields
• BBC World Radio, July 2008
• U.S. Seeks Help in Afghanistan as Drug Trade Booms
• NPR, Feb. 9, 2008

Other Coverage

• Still Wrong in Afghanistan
• The Washington Post, Jan. 23, 2008
• Tackling Afghanistan's Opium Trade with Legalization
• Council on Foreign Relations, December 20, 2007

The Taliban's Opium War
The New Yorker, July 9, 2007

• Afghanistan: Opium Poppy Free Road Map and Provincial Profiles
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, June 2008
• The 2008 Commission on Narcotic Drugs Report
• International Drug Policy Consortium, April 2008
• Afghanistan: Economic Incentives and Development Initiatives to Reduce Opium Production
• World Bank and United Kingdom's Department for International Development, February 2008
• Afghanistan: Opium Winter Rapid Assessment Survey
• Government of Afghanistan and the United Nations, February 2008
• Afghanistan Opium Survey 2007
• Government of Afghanistan and the United Nations, August 2007

Books

• Opium Season: A Year on the Afghan Frontier
• By Joel Hafvenstein, 2007
• Drugs in Afghanistan: Opium, Outlaws and Scorpion Tales
• By David Macdonald, 2007