Russia is the biggest target market for heroin distribution, and consumes one fifth of all heroin produced in the world, a report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime released on October 21 claims. Now, every third person killed by the drug the world over is Russian. Afghanistan holds a near monopoly on heroin production, accounting for 92 percent of global output, and the highly addictive drug then floods into Russia from the war-torn country across Central Asia’s porous borders.
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