Afghan women and a boy harvest opium sap from their poppy field in Badakhshan province on July 5, 2017. The US government has spent billions of dollars on a war to eliminate drugs from Afghanistan, but the country still remains the world's top opium producer. / AFP PHOTO / SHARIF SHAYEQ (Photo credit should read SHARIF SHAYEQ/AFP via Getty Images)
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