World failing to dent heroin trade, U.N. warns

“(CNN) — Afghan opium kills 100,000 people every year worldwide — more than any other drug — and the opiate heroin kills five times as many people in NATO countries each year than the eight-year total of NATO troops killed in Afghan combat, the United Nations said Wednesday.”

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/21/un.heroin.trade/