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Opium Season

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Opium Season: A Year on the Afghan Frontier
Cover of US edition
AuthorJoel Hafvenstein
Cover artistGeorgianna Goodwin
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAfghanistan, opium trade, travel
PublisherThe Lyons Press
Publication date
November 1, 2007
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages336
ISBN978-1-59921-131-2
OCLC148949291
958.104/7 22
LC ClassDS371.4 .H32 2007

Opium Season is the true story of a young American in Afghanistan running an aid program to counter the opium trade.[1][2][3]

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Joel Hafvenstein signed up for a year in Afghanistan in the heart of the country's opium trade, running an American-funded aid program to help thousands of opium poppy farmers make a legal living, and to win hearts and minds away from the former Taliban government. The author was soon caught up in the machinations of Helmand's drug trafficking warlords.

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