Russia’s Afghan Addiction
Since 2001, the year American and Canadian troops entered Afghanistan, worldwide heroin production has reached record levels. The United Nations estimates that as much as 20 percent of the heroin ends up in Russia, where there are over 80 heroin-related deaths a day.
Russian officials blame NATO, but as Japhet and Yuli Weeks uncover in a report for CCIR Investigates, Russia offers little in the way of treatment for the country’s 1.5 million addicts. “Russia’s Afghan Addiction” first ran on July, 2011 in partnership with the Global Post, with major funding provided by the Open Society Institute.
For more information visit:
http://canadiancentreinvestigates.org/russias-afghan-addiction/
“Russia’s Afghan Addiction” was WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY
Japhet and Yuli Weeks
ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE
Shaun McCanna
Flamingo Productions LLP
MUSIC
Igor Shiyanov
ADDITIONAL REPORTING AND RESEARCH
Alex Roslin
Bilbo Poynter
Shaun McCanna
FOR CCIR
President,
Alex Roslin
Executive Producer,
Bilbo Poynter
PRODUCED BY
the CCIR and the Moscow Bureau
FUNDING PROVIDED BY
the Open Society Institute
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