heroin trade
Illicit drug commerce
The heroin trade is the illegal commerce in heroin—its production, smuggling, distribution, and sale.
The term encompasses everything from opium poppy cultivation to street-level dealing: The heroin trade funds criminal organizations worldwide.
Discussions of the heroin trade often involve cartels, trafficking routes, and drug policy: Efforts to disrupt the heroin trade have had mixed results.
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
- cartelPrice-fixing coalition
- drug lordCriminal trafficking organization leader
- needlePointed implement for sewing
- needle exchangeSafe injection supply service
shooting gallery · overdose · poppy · Afghanistan · dealer · junkie · trafficking · golden triangle · kingpin · mule · border · border patrol · cut · pure · black tar · fix · stash · drug bust
- vicevice, debauchery, prostitution, depravity, immorality
- Traffickingdrug trafficking, trafficking, trafficker, drug smuggling, smuggling
- black marketblack market, smugglers, contraband, traffickers, bootleggers
- smugglingcontraband, smugglers, human smuggling, smuggling rings, people smuggling
- narcotraffickingdrug trafficking, drug cartels, drug lord, drug lords, narcos
- Latin crimedrug trafficking, drug cartel, gang violence, kidnapping, human trafficking
heroin tradehumanitarian aid
Crisis relief for sufferers
methadone clinics · vaccine distribution · public health initiatives · charitable work
heroin tradecharitable work
Altruistic service for others
humanitarian efforts · public health initiatives · drug enforcement · community health programs · fair trade
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