An Akha mother and her children in their house in a hill village in northwestern Laos. At the bottom of the opium supply chain, the Akha gain little from it. Photo: Andrew Chant

Smugglers paddle across the Mekong near the Laotian port of Xieng Kok. Opium is taken to Myanmar for refining. Photo: Andrew Chant

Opium poppies are grown in fields like these throughout the mountains of northern Laos. Photo: UNODC

Opium poppies. Photo: UNODC

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It's happy hour for the heroin traffickers of the Golden Triangle

With demand from China's heroin addicts outstripping supply, the trafficking business is booming, but little changes for the poor farmers

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David Eimer

Published: 12:00am, 26 Sep, 2013

Updated: 3:47am, 26 Sep, 2013

An Akha mother and her children in their house in a hill village in northwestern Laos. At the bottom of the opium supply chain, the Akha gain little from it. Photo: Andrew Chant

Smugglers paddle across the Mekong near the Laotian port of Xieng Kok. Opium is taken to Myanmar for refining. Photo: Andrew Chant

Opium poppies are grown in fields like these throughout the mountains of northern Laos. Photo: UNODC

Opium poppies. Photo: UNODC

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It's happy hour for the heroin traffickers of the Golden Triangle

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