One fact that further compounds this sad and socially destructive issue is that there are tens of thousands of British and yank troops on the ground in Afghanistan and Pakistan and nothing is done.
We all know how simple it would be to wipe out the problem using a military solution but nothing is done. The reason for this is because we (UK and USA) have installed a completely corrupt regime which is heavily involved in the opium trade. This tends to happen quite often throughout history where the US have geopolitical interests (Panama, Mexico, Colombia, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Laos, Afghanista