During the Vietnam war, the CIA, to cement their alliance with with local groups in South Asia, participated in heroin smuggling, which fuelled an epidemic. Oh wait, that's not a theory, it actually happened.https://twitter.com/nopoweradeinusa/status/1015482523621605377 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I think another part of the story is the NVA and NLF flooded Saigon with cheap heroin in 1970, which worked pretty well as far as GI's were concerned.
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Replying to @ScottMcConnell9
Yeah, it's true that when things got really bad (1969-1972) drug overdoses were among top causes of death of USA troops in Nam
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