Interesting insight from the article:

Afghanistan produces almost 90% of the world’s heroin. Therefore, the eradication of the opium crop will have profound worldwide consequences on drug use. Experts MintPress spoke to warned that a dearth of heroin would likely produce a huge spike in the use of synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, a drug the Center for Disease Control estimates is 50 times stronger and is responsible for taking the lives of more than 100,000 Americans each year.

If I wanted to cause harm to my inaccessible enemies overseas, a brilliant move would be to force a crisis of overdose deaths from Fentanyl due to my choking off the vast majority of the heroin supply. Synthetic opiod ODs are almost 4 times that of heroin. Combine that with the statistic that 1.1 million people in the US are estimated to use heroin in a year, and you have a potential statistic of a lot of extra people in coffins, especially if they suddenly switch while not realizing that you need a lot less fentanyl to get your fix as compared to a dose of H. With 9,173 heroin deaths and maybe 70,601 from Fentanyl in 2021, you might see a bumper crop of extra bodies in 2024, and not just from 'unknown causes of excess death'.