I guess we invaded to get more dope.
Afghan heroin supply on rise across America
LOS ANGELES – The amount of high-quality heroin throughout America is surging because of an increasing supply from Afghanistan, and with it the fear that record-breaking poppy harvests after the U.S. invasion are fueling more addictions and overdose deaths back home.
Heroin-related deaths in Los Angeles County soared from 137 in 2002 to 282 in 2004 before dropping to 239 in 2005, still a jump of nearly 75 percent in three years, a period when other factors contributing to overdose deaths remained unchanged, experts said.
The rise of heroin from Afghanistan is our biggest rising threat in the fight against narcotics,'' said Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino. `We are seeing more seizures and more overdoses.’’ </i>
And even though it has nothing to do with the story, here’s my favorite picture of Keith:
“I guess we invad-X008”
Indeed.
