Heroin Addicts Around The World Are Affected By Afghanistan's Poppy Crop Failure This Year

Killing fields: Farmers in Afghanistan gather an opium crop which will be made into heroin. Photo from The Daily Mail

Heroin Shortage In UK Is 'Putting Lives At Risk' -- The Guardian

• Afghan poppy harvest blighted by fungus
• Dealers adulterating supply to maintain profits

Hospitals are treating a growing number of drug users who have overdosed on heroin mixed with other substances by dealers because of a huge shortage of the opiate across the UK.

One of the most severe heroin 'droughts' for five years has been reported in areas across the UK, including, London, Lancashire, Surrey, and Stockton-on-Tees.

The shortage has been linked not to seizures of the drug by law enforcement agencies but to a fungus that has blighted this year's poppy crop in Afghanistan, reducing it by half.

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My Comment: Britain is not the only country affected by this shortage. Russia has one of the worst addiction rates for heroin in the world, and I have noticed in the Russian news media numerous stories (recently) that outline how reports of heroin and opium shortages in Russia are now creating a catastrophic situation for its addicts.