The Drug Store Edition

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A former US Drug Enforcement Administration official discusses how to stymie the opium trade in Afghanistan. Then, why officials in Honduras have turned to community policing to counteract their drug and gang violence. And why the US has decided to withhold millions of dollars in anti-drug aid to Mexico. Plus: Los Angeles tests new ways to keep unauthorised immigrants healthy. An American surgeon overwhelmed by the high rate of infant hydrocephalus in Uganda develops a life-saving technique that’s now helping kids in the US as well. And the magic of asosi, a ‘go-to cure-all’ medicinal plant that grows wild in Florida. Image: Afghan farmers collect raw opium as they work in a poppy field in the Khogyani district of Jalalabad. (Credit: AP)