{"id":18904,"date":"2013-08-09T08:57:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T12:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=18904"},"modified":"2013-08-09T08:57:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T12:57:38","slug":"heroin-in-pakistan-more-affordable-than-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/08\/heroin-in-pakistan-more-affordable-than-food\/","title":{"rendered":"La hero\u00edna en Pakist\u00e1n es m\u00e1s barata que la comida."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18905\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18905\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pakheroin01-0047-2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18905\" alt=\"AFP Photo \/ Rizwan Tabassum\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pakheroin01-0047-2.jpg?resize=490%2C327\" width=\"490\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AFP Photo \/ Rizwan Tabassum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Over one billion dollars\u2019 worth of heroin each year \u2013 that is the deadly fallout Pakistan gets from the blooming narcotics industry that provides the main cash crop in devastated Afghanistan. Locals say heroin is cheaper than food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It\u2019s thought Pakistan has more than four million drug addicts, but less than 80 dedicated drug rehab clinics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">As RT\u2019s Lucy Kafanov reports from Karachi, those heroin addicts don\u2019t even bother hiding their habit. For many this is a deadly path.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Local young man Abdullah spent two weeks looking for his father, a heroin addict, eventually finding him in Karachi\u2019s largest morgue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">While help for drug addicts is in short supply, there is no shortage of heroin on the streets of Karachi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Afghanistan is the world\u2019s largest producer of opium \u2013 heroin\u2019s main ingredient \u2013 and accounts for 90 per cent of the global supply. Roughly 40 per cent of it is smuggled through Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Opium production is up for the third year in a row, and predicted to grow more. When NATO leaves in 2014, there are fears the floodgates will open for the spread of the deadly harvest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">For more watch RT\u2019s Lucy Kafanov\u2019s report from Pakistan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/pakistan-afghanistan-drugs-heroin-186\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over one billion dollars\u2019 worth of heroin each year \u2013 that is the deadly fallout Pakistan gets from the blooming narcotics industry that provides the..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[295,229,197,258,347],"class_list":["post-18904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-afghanistan","tag-economic-exploitation","tag-imperialism","tag-pakistan","tag-workers-struggle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pakheroin01-0047-2.jpg?fit=800%2C535&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}