The Study Of Afghanistan Drug Problem

Afghanistan has been the largest opium producer and heroin output country in the world, whose annual opium production in recent years (2002-2008) has continuingly accounted for more than 80 percent of the world's opium production, which was the result of the endless war in the last three decades. Poppy cultivation has been extending in Afghanistan since the 1980s. During the following three period of time: the "holy war" period (1979-1989) in which Afghanistan fought against the Soviet Union's invasion, the civil war period (1992-1996) in which the internal warlords fought each other after the Soviet Union's withdrawal, and the Taliban regime (1996-2001), poppy cultivation and drug trafficking served as central parts of Afghanistan's "war economy", providing revenue to individuals and groups to compete for power and as an economic survival mechanism to a growing segment of the impoverished population. It is understandable that those farmers living in extreme poverty which was the result of the endless war in Afghanistan has and will also treat the poppy cultivation and opium production as an important way to subsist. But in the other hand, the international community's reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan has not collapsed the political and economic network which is long-standing and interrelated by the poor farmers, drug processing and trafficking groups, tribes and warlords, while which is also the very basis of the "opium economy" no matter in the past or at present.The neighboring countries of Afghanistan served as one destination of drug trafficking on the one hand, and on the other hand as an important trafficking channel for sending Afghanistan's drug to further places such as Europe and Middle East, which breed a number of drug-trafficking and consumption related problems in these surrounding areas such as corruption, organized crime, terrorism, drug consumption, and AIDS. Especially in the last few years, Afghanistan's drug has penetrated to China through the neighboring countries, which is also known as the new trafficking route that the heroines from Afghanistan come through Pakistan and Central Asian countries to enter Xinjiang. Although the absolute number is not huge, the number of drag trafficking cases that related anti-drag departments uncovered has been increasing every year, which has already aroused the Chinese government and the anti-drag department of the great concern and some measures to prevent drags in Afghanistan against our country has been taken.