@kurth

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction report.

Compared to the previous year, the total area under poppy cultivation in 2016 increased 10% from 183,000 to 201,000 hectares. Opium production was estimated at 4,800 tons––a 43% increase from its 2015 level. In fact, the improvement of Afghanistan’s poppy yields was largely responsible for the worldwide opium production increase between 2015 and 2016. Global opium production increased by one-third to 6,380 tons compared to the previous year.757 The value of opiates produced in Afghanistan is more than two-thirds the value of the country’s entire agricultural sector. The value of the illicit opiate economy was estimated at $3.02 billion in 2016, up from $1.56 billion in 2015

I used article, not source, hence proper is to talk about value doubling and in 2016 compared to 2015.

and the reality is more than half , and growing statistically, of opioid overdoses in the US are from prescription drugs, not heroin from afghanistan...or mexico... which is the real problem....all over the world !

no ones un-calm....your statement was incorrect....simple enough https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/overdose.html

"I am sure he'll do something stupid soon enough to make topic.." well said Vitaliy, you know what kind of person drumpf is...and don't try to explain things to trumptards , they see drumpf like a Messiah who will save them from hell...it is so easy to find drumpf lies they are all over the internet IN VIDEO, he can not deny he said that , but this people cannot see the truth, the conman drumpf owns them , they live in an alternative reality :fox news , breitbart, alex jones etc

And three of these are from Pharma industry, right?

@tigerbengal2009 ....confused about the topic ....again ? No trump supporter here but ....if americans really want to criticize trump, then they've got to investigate real criminal behavior , not just indulge in their immature foodfight mentality. Of course , the risk of that, as we're witnessing , is it'll most likely be Hillary and her criminal DNC minions who'll go to jail instead. And back to topic, if @Vitaliy really wanted to see where afghan heroin was going, he'd be better guided by looking into nato, turkey and isis smuggling it into eastern europe. And it's a fact, most heroin coming into the usa these days comes from mexico. And , as cdc states, half of all overdoses in the usa are prescription drugs, according to the link I previously posted. So both themes of Vitaliy's thread , which has now been revised not to include trumps actions as cause and effect, are still unproven. He's shown nothing that states afghan opium production has doubled since 2016 ( I find no numbers for a 2017 increase although I wouldn't be surprised ) and even less that somehow this hypothesis is linked to the recent headlines that there's an increase in opioid overdose deaths in the US, which would be unlikely considering the two facts ...that half of all overdoses are from prescription drugs and that mexico is the usa's main source for heroin. http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/eu-drug-markets/2016/online/heroin/production

@kurth

I will repeat for third time. I made topic based on local stuff, as I can't check all sources.
And I here provided two sources what show - it is two issues that are hardly related, same as you wrote.

@tigerbengal2009

but this people cannot see the truth, the conman drumpf owns them , they live in an alternative reality :fox news , breitbart, alex jones etc

No, you live in the alternate reality. The proof was Trump's election itself. If you had even occasionally read something like Breitbart (not saying to trust any source 100%) you would have seen the reality of a Trump election coming from a mile away... these right-leaning sources were the ones that predicted this all along. They were accurately pointing out bias in polling, they accurately accounted for Trumps true support-base, THEY were REALITY. Now, it was your good friends in Mainstream-Media (CNN, MSNBC, ect.) were the actual liars... they assured you that the nomination was not stolen from Bernie Sanders, they assured you that Hilary Clinton was a legitimate candidate, they assured you that Hilary would have a 98% chance of winning. You all laughed and celebrated election night at the foolish Trump-tards living in their delusional world. "It's not rigged, you're just losing!!!" Remember that? Remember people crying shortly after? Now THAT is what alternative reality looks like when it comes crashing down. But you can keep living in your own head if you like.

Ultra lol.

Good business for America, bad for society.