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Ninety-eight kilograms of heroin were seized by police in the northeastern Turkish province of Erzincan with the help of a narcotic detection dog on Feb. 25.

A prosecutor in the port city of Piraeus is to question on Wednesday two men arrested in nearby Drapetsona the previous day over the discovery of a large cache of heroin.

The suspects, both Albanian nationals aged 37 and 48 respectively, were nabbed after police received a tip-off that they were part of a large drug-smuggling ring that operated in the broader Attica area.

Opiate production in Afghanistan has risen by 90% and reached a record 9,000 tonnes in 2017, according to the UN. Executive Director of the United Nations Drugs and Crime Unit, Yuri Fedotov, announced these figures at a session of the UN Security Council on Afghanistan.

The Taliban are controlling not less than a third of Afghanistan, the Pentagon has admitted, reports sega. 

In order to limit their financial resources, US aviation launched bombings against drug production workshops.

Seven charred and dismembered corpses were found on Nov. 5 inside garbage bags on a dirt road in a southeastern Mexican town disputed by opium gum dealers, regional authorities said.

US President Donald Trump pledged yesterday to overcome America's opioid addiction and announced the crisis is with a status of an emergency, threatening public health, Associated Press reported.

A police sergeant on the island of Chios was arrested on Saturday on drug dealing charges.

The suspect was reportedly nabbed by officers of the Chios narcotics unit as he handed over 50 grams of heroin to an unidentified individual.

Drug enforcement authorities in Attica have seized more than 23 kilograms of heroin and dismantled the operation of a gang that is suspected of dealing large quantities of narcotics in different parts of Greece.

Their son is away from home for the seventh time. He is in a rehabilitation center to treat his 20-year addiction to heroin and other illegal drugs. His previous attempts to quit, both in Greece and abroad, ended in relapses just a few months after he returned to his childhood home in Menidi. His parents are worried that there is no way out of this vicious cycle.

Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia torched nearly $1 billion worth of seized narcotics on June 26, a defiant show of force as police struggle to stem the rising flow of drugs in the region.

The burnings, to mark the U.N.'s world anti-drugs day, follow another year of record seizures of narcotics from the remote borderlands of Myanmar, Laos, southern China and northern Thailand.