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The trail of destruction

In the first of a major two-part investigation David Pratt follows the flood of heroin from Afghanistan to scotland and asks: why has the war made it worse?

Smack, skag, horse -- the street names for heroin in Scotland -- are as familiar here as their Afghan counterparts -- poder, mawad and gulbadan. For Scotland, like Afghanistan, has a deadly love affair with heroin.