Issue 4279. Last Updated: 11/20/2009

Heroin Seen As Threat To Security

Reuters
Russia has become the world's biggest heroin consumer, and the flood of the drug from Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, said the chief of the Federal Drug Control Service.

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