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Heroin Production: Southwest Asia (Afghanistan)

OSI-00-12R Published: Jun 21, 2000. Publicly Released: Jun 21, 2000.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on heroin production, focusing on: (1) the reason for the discrepancy between the published production estimates of Afghanistan's 1999 opium poppy crop by the U.S. government and the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP); (2) whether Afghanistan heroin is being shipped to the United States; and (3) whether the Netherlands is a transshipment site for drugs destined for the United States.

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