Yes, over 30,000 Russians die every year from AIDS (which is mostly a consequence of heroin) while only 500 die in the U.K. for example, with half the population. So for the Russian Federation 5,000 AIDS deads a year would be enough, and that means 300,000 Russian lifes, would-be workers or soldiers, are lost every decade and that amount could be reduced 90% reaching Western European levels. Just a reduction to Western levels in the number of Russians who die in car accidents (which already has been successfuly reduced) and from AIDS and drug overdose would mean over half a million Russian lifes saved, and that means saving $billions in Health Care costs and a native increase in the Russian population without immigration... So efficiency will be tested during this decade on the level of drug addiction, as on the level of alcohol addiction, and car accidents. Perhaps after Americans leave Afghanistan the Taliban (or the like) will again eradicate opium as they wouldn´t need selling it to get military gadgets to fight the Occupation...

Before the signing of the START treaty I had suggested that Mr Medvedev require that drugs be included in the weapons of mass destruction. Destroying a society from inside is also a strategy used to control it... Satellites ' photography allows Russia and America to know each square meter of the planet. If the NATO-USA bunch wanted with 140000 soldiers and as many mercenaries, they could easily burn and destroy all Afghan drugs in one day. The same thing apply on all continents. Unfortunately money making is humanity's most dangerous drug and human life means nothing. Sorry Future Generations, our actual world leadership is insane and stupid (like the specimen Clinton, Obama, Sarkozy, Medvedev etc)...Best Regards... Jean-Claude Meslin