l6 the heroin trail
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The Heroin Trail
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Lesson Objectives
• To understand how international drug dealers use geography!
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The Heroin Trail p102
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What countries are involved?How could it stop?
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Heroin across the world- in Afghanistan
• Heroin is grown by poor farmers in Afghanistan- they don’t earn enough money to feed their families by growing arable crops for food.
• So many of the farmers now grow fields of opium poppies.
• To get the money he visits his local drug dealer who gives him enough money to buy the poppy seeds to plant.
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There are six billion people in the world.
The heroin business is worth over six billion
pounds!
Turn to p103 to find out more
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Heroin across the world- In England
• In England the opium is sold as heroin and is injected or smoked by drug-takers.
• It is an illegal drug and ruins lives
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The Heroin Trail- Complete the sheet!
• _______ in Afghanistan need money for their families.• Farmers earn most money by growing _____.• The local ____ trader gives farmers _____ and money.• The farmer plants poppy seeds instead of _____. • When the poppies are ready, white ______ is taken from
them and sold to the trader for £30 a ____.• The liquid is turned into ________ and then to heroin. • The heroin is smuggled across the border to ____.• Two weeks later in ______, the heroin is sold for £20 000 a
kilo.• Drug _______ spend £1000’s on heroin which ruins their life.
• seeds wheat Iran farmers• kilo London opium
liquid• addicts drug morphine
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Fight against Heroin trade
• Watch the Video to see what is being done.
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Hamid is the poppy farmer in Afghanistan
• His 6 children were so weak they were unable to help him farm wheat on his farm in Afghanistan. His wife died from malnutrition 3 months ago, she had used her food to feed their children.
• Did he do the right thing in using the drug dealers money to farm opium?
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Mr and Mrs Jameson are English parents
• Mr and Mrs Jameson live in a wealthy village near Torquay.
• They hadn’t seen their daughter for four years…
• …until last week when they were asked to identify her body in their local hospital.
• What happened to her in the four years?
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There are two sides of every argument
• Poor farmers who work in Afghanistan rely on farming opium poppies to make a living- or to stay alive.
• Heroin addicts are ruining their lives by funding their habit by petty crime and ruining their health and future by taking the drug.
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Newspaper Article
• Imagine you are a reporter for the Newsround’s Press Pack and you have been sent into Afghanistan to find out more about the Heroin Trail.
• Include interviews with locals (in UK and Afghanistan), what the living conditions are like and why people still grow it illegally.
• Make it creative!
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HOMEWORK
• Finish off the newspaper report about the Heroin Trail