Afghanistan is the fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine, U.N. says

Afghanistan meth trade surges as Taliban clamps down on heroin

Meth trafficking has intensified since the Taliban announced a ban on the production of narcotics

Afghanistan is the fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine: UN

A report from the United Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crimes said the country is also a major opium producer and heroin source, even though the Taliban declared a war on narcotics in August 2021.

UN says drastic rise in meth trade in Afghanistan after opiate ban

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have clamped down on the decades-old, lucrative trade in poppy tar - the psychoactive substance in heroin -since surging back to power two years ago.

Afghanistan now world's fastest-growing meth manufacturer despite...

A report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes called Afghanistan’s meth manufacturing a growing threat to national and regional health and security because it could disrupt the synthetic drug market and fuel addiction.

The UN is sounding the alarm: The trade in the highly addictive methamphetamine has increased twelve-fold in Afghanistan. The heroin trade, on the other hand, has declined. The Taliban have banned the cultivation of opium poppies.

Afghanistan rapidly expanding meth trafficking, UN says as Taliban pledges to eradicate drugs

The rise in production coincides with severe poverty in Afghanistan.