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In this Jan 27 photo, a villager walks in a flourishing poppy field at Nampatka village, Northern Shan State, Myanmar. Myanmar, now emerging from a half-century of brutal military rule, was the world's biggest producer of opium, the main ingredient in heroin, until 2002, when focus started shifting to the manufacture of methamphetamines, now a booming trade in itself. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

In this Jan 27 photo, a villager walks in a flourishing poppy field at Nampatka village, Northern Shan State, Myanmar. Myanmar, now emerging from a half-century of brutal military rule, was the world's biggest producer of opium, the main ingredient in heroin, until 2002, when focus started shifting to the manufacture of methamphetamines, now a booming trade in itself. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

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