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and they ve actually put a number to what we found on the ground. they re saying that opium reduction, cultivation reduction, in the whole of afghanistan could be as much as 80%. so 80% lower opium cultivation this year compared to the last. in helmand, which is the opium heartland, it is as low as 99%. so 99% lower this year around. this, of course, has global ramifications. nearly all of the heroin sold in europe is made from afghan opium. 0n the ground there, we were able to see an impact on prices. so one bag of opium already costs more than five times of what it did before the ban. but experts we ve spoken to have told us that it will take a bit of time for that price rise to filter down through the chain of drug trafficking to the street price of heroin. and then the important question, what does this mean for heroin addiction in the uk, in all of europe? experts say that because it is