Often the real source of border problems was ordinary criminals or local merchants involved in illegal mining, logging, smuggling, and narcotics production and trade.

The United Nations report links the increase in narcotics production in Afghanistan with the economic, political and social collapse caused by decades of civil war.

Drugs, Inc. is an American documentary television series on the National Geographic Channel that explores global narcotics production and trafficking.

The weapons are used by the cartels to protect narcotics production in their battle with the Mexican police and army, and smuggle drugs north.

- State Department report on narcotics production.

Inability to provide convincing evidence of progress against narcotics production and trafficking would create another bar to American aid.

Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, narcotics production and trafficking, and serious organized crime.

Helping Colombia to reduce its narcotics production is an American interest.

As we develop increasingly sophisticated strategies for reducing narcotics production and smuggling, the strongest operatives survive.

At first, the Taliban was taxing poppy cultivation and charging fees for narcotics production, American officials say.