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Pandemic Disrupts Illegal Drug Trade, Upending Both Product And Profits

Farmers harvest opium sap from a poppy field in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on May 10. The country is the world's biggest heroin supplier, but a U.N. report found a shortage of field workers there because of the coronavirus. (AFP via Getty Images)
Farmers harvest opium sap from a poppy field in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on May 10. The country is the world's biggest heroin supplier, but a U.N. report found a shortage of field workers there because of the coronavirus. (AFP via Getty Images)

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