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Article: Taliban's opium eradication program could be wiped out.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- November 7, 2001
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan _ In a dusty, mite-infested crawl space underneath Peshawar's Jail Bridge, supply-side economics was the hot topic of conversation as Riad Ali and three fellow addicts prepared their Sunday afternoon fix of heroin.
"It's getting very expensive. Last year, I paid 20 rupees for a gram. Now I'm paying 250," Ali, 26, said while flicking his cigarette lighter under a piece of foil holding a droplet of heroin. Like many addicts in Pakistan, he smokes the drug rather than injects it the way American junkies often do.
It could be time to get help, Ali said, because the price of addiction is almost too high to bear.
With that, Ali put ...