http://www.samefacts.com/2009/09/international-affairs/afghanistan/idols-of-the-tribes/ Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:54:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.samefacts.com/2009/09/international-affairs/afghanistan/idols-of-the-tribes/comment-page-1/#comment-33356 Mark Kleiman Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:59:30 +0000 http://www.samefacts.com/?p=8743#comment-33356 There's an extended comment in<a href="http://www.samefacts.com/2009/09/international-affairs/afghanistan/why-growing-opium-in-afghanistan-will-not-help-treat-pain-in-africa/" rel="nofollow">the next post</a>. Short version: since the opium to make a dose of morphine costs a penny, under-treatment of pain - which is certainly an important problem - does not result from the cost of opium, and therefore trying to fix it by increasing opium supplies won't work. There’s an extended comment inthe next post. Short version: since the opium to make a dose of morphine costs a penny, under-treatment of pain – which is certainly an important problem – does not result from the cost of opium, and therefore trying to fix it by increasing opium supplies won’t work.

]]> http://www.samefacts.com/2009/09/international-affairs/afghanistan/idols-of-the-tribes/comment-page-1/#comment-33352 Avocet Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:45:26 +0000 http://www.samefacts.com/?p=8743#comment-33352 The real problem, it seems to me, is to identify crops other than opium as to which various regions of Afghanistan have a competitive advantage. Taking transport costs into account, surely there is something, but I have seen little discussion of this issue in the press. The real problem, it seems to me, is to identify crops other than opium as to which various regions of Afghanistan have a competitive advantage. Taking transport costs into account, surely there is something, but I have seen little discussion of this issue in the press.

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