As authorities clamp down on fentanyl distribution and the amount of heroin produced in Afghanistan decreases under the Taliban, criminal enterprises have turned to a deadly alternative option.
Nope! They sold opiates. Opiates derive from plants, usually poppies, while opioids are synthetic. The Taliban doesn’t need/hasn’t really needed synthetic opioid production, because Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium poppies.
If anything, in the new era of lab-made chemicals that fry your brain like an egg the first time you hear about them, the Taliban are likely falling behind in the drug trade.
Nope! They sold opiates. Opiates derive from plants, usually poppies, while opioids are synthetic. The Taliban doesn’t need/hasn’t really needed synthetic opioid production, because Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium poppies.
If anything, in the new era of lab-made chemicals that fry your brain like an egg the first time you hear about them, the Taliban are likely falling behind in the drug trade.
Opiates are opioids. Opiate:opioid::square:rectangle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid
Sorry I misspoke, I was referring to opiates from poppies not synthetics.