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Price of heroin triples in Burma after poor opium harvest

Burma's military government says the street price of heroin has tripled in the country after the poorest opium production season in more than a decade.

A spokesman for the Office of Strategic Studies intelligence agency said
drug eradication efforts, bad weather and pests have slashed the opium poppy harvest.

He said the latest opium yield survey showed a 31 percent decrease in cultivation and 38 percent decrease in opium production.

9/04/01 21:51:22 | ABC Radio Australia News

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