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Drug Trafficking: 1900 to Present: South, Central, and West Asia

By: Marcella Bush Trevino
In: Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An Encyclopedia
Edited by: Andrea L. Stanton, Edward Ramsamy, Peter J. Seybolt & Carolyn M. Elliott
Subject:Sociology of Culture, Area Studies (general), Social & Cultural Anthropology
Keywords:cultivation; drug trafficking; drugs; heroin; opiates; opium; place marketing

The Golden Crescent, an area comprising parts of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, is the world's leading opium poppy cultivation zone, fueling regional drug trafficking in opiates such as heroin. Geographic conditions, limited economic alternatives, poverty, and corruption have ...

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  Trevino, M. (2012). Drug trafficking: 1900 to present: south, central, and west asia. In A. L. StantonE. Ramsamy, & P. J. Seybolt (Eds.), Cultural sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An encyclopedia (Vol. 1, pp. IV191-IV191). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n735
  
  Trevino, M. (2012). Drug trafficking: 1900 to present: south, central, and west asia. In A. L. StantonE. Ramsamy, & P. J. Seybolt (Eds.), Cultural sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An encyclopedia (Vol. 1, pp. IV191-IV191). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n735
  
  Trevino, M. (2012). Drug trafficking: 1900 to present: south, central, and west asia. In A. L. StantonE. Ramsamy, & P. J. Seybolt (Eds.), Cultural sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An encyclopedia (Vol. 1, pp. IV191-IV191). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n735
  
  Trevino, M. (2012). Drug trafficking: 1900 to present: south, central, and west asia. In A. L. StantonE. Ramsamy, & P. J. Seybolt (Eds.), Cultural sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An encyclopedia (Vol. 1, pp. IV191-IV191). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n735
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