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Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Tackling Afghanistan's poppy problem

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Afghanistan's poppy fields supply as much as 90 percent of the world's heroin. But the US and other countries are putting hundreds of millions dollars behind new some tactics in the war on drugs. Miranda Kennedy reports.

(photo Paula Bronstein © Getty Images)

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