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Opium, hair win. a drug ravaging communities across america. clearly this is a powerful plant. something the turks figured out a while back. hundreds of years ago opium was a go-to remedy prescribed by doctors and it wasnt long before it was abused in turkeys cities. but a lot of the rural areas including the opium growing hub of afyon were spared the ravages of addiction. how do they do it? a turkish scholar might have some answers. i think if you had a town named opium in the states, people wo...

That. the culture is so influenced by religion that islam shapes peoples perception. >> turkey is predominantly muslim and the koran prohibits the use of mind altering substances. but for generations opium was unregulated here. until america declared the war on drugs in the 70s. >> americas public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse. >> nixon pressured turkey to stop growing opium because it was flooding the united states in the form of illegal heroin, but for farmers here in afy...

Something growing weve come to depend on. typically if youre feeling some pain, you pop a pill. right? and some of the worlds most powerful painkillers are known as oipiates and they start froma rather unique crop from this province that literally means opium, afyon. that opium comes from the poppy plant which is hauled in by the ton here. the largest legal opium processer in the world. this is one of the top executives here. so this is what all the fuss is about. >> poppy. how many trucks like ...

To a cheaper derivative of opium, hair win. heroin. a drug ravaging communities across america. clearly this is a powerful plant. something the turks figured out a while back. hundreds of years ago opium was a go-to remedy prescribed by doctors and it wasnt long before it was abused in turkeys cities. but a lot of the rural areas including the opium growing hub of afyon were spared the ravages of addiction. how do they do it? a turkish scholar might have some answers. i think if you had a town n...