opium
Οι Ταλιμπάν Δεν Έχουν Περιθώριο να Σταματήσουν την Παραγωγή Ηρωίνης, Εκτός αν τους Πληρώσουν οι ΗΠΑ
«Θα θέλουν μια πολύ καλή συμφωνία για να σταματήσουν την παραγωγή», είπε στο VICE World News ένας πρώην στρατιώτης των ειδικών δυνάμεων, νυν σύμβουλος καταπολέμησης των ναρκωτικών. «Είναι πολύ καλοί στις διαπραγματεύσεις».
Kyrgyzstan Is the Latest Victim of the Global Heroin Trade
Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kyrgyzstan has been a preferred route for drug traffickers sending heroin from Afghanistan to Russia. This has led to widespread addiction and an epidemic of organized crime.
Meeting Hardcore Drug Users at a Four-Star Hotel in Lithuania
I’m at the four-star Radisson Hotel in Vilnius, Lithuania's capital, for one of the world’s most cosmopolitan gatherings of former and current drug users. There are heroin injectors from the slums of Nairobi, opium eaters from the streets of Nepal, and...
How a Remote Laotian Village Became Asia's Cancun
Vang Vieng's main street is full of bars screening reruns of 'Friends' and 'Family Guy.' Bars offer whiskey-taurine cocktails served in beach buckets. It’s also easy to score opium, magic mushrooms, methamphetamines, and other substances that could get...
Afghanistan's Poppy Bumper Crop
The price farmers stand to gain per kilo of opium poppy far exceeds 2008 and 2009’s prices, meaning that farmers will most likely plant poppy again this coming season.
The Cockroach and the Cokehead
May 2012: I quit my job and burn all my bridges so I can swim. I won't realize that was wishful thinking until a few months later. Summer starts gliding by like a sailboat. I master the Dead Man's Float. I'm not working and life is a lazy river; I'm a...
The Black Tar Tits of Afghanistan
Suckling from a junkie tit can be lethal, which is pretty much the most hopeless image imaginable.
Karachi Kills VICE
All signs point to a country that is ready to explode, and considering the reporting I’ve conducted here over the past seven years, it appears that Karachi may be the detonator.
New Pictures From Afghanistan
Seven years ago we ran a series of photographs by Jason Florio documenting life in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan just before the 2001 US-led invasion.