Opium
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The Chinese remember well the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century, when the Middle Kingdom tried and failed to resist the British campaign to force it to open its economy to
opium
and other imports.
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What do we know about the country and the people that we pretend to protect, about the villages where the only one medicine to kill the pain and to stop the hunger is
opium?
Another thing I worry about in the global commons is the threat posed by trafficking, by the movement of narcotics, opium, here coming out of Afghanistan through Europe over to the United States.
Eighty to 90 percent of the world's poppy,
opium
and heroin, comes out of Afghanistan.
And little Billy says, "My father plays the piano in an
opium
den."
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