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
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
