Afghanistan grows more opium poppy than ever, and the officers tasked with stopping it are losing ground. This Al Jazeera 101 East report travels to the poppy fields feeding heroin habits worldwide, timed to a year when cultivation hit record highs even as NATO troops prepare to withdraw. Reporters meet local counter-narcotics police who work with little funding and less equipment, trying to interdict a crop that has become the main source of income for entire villages. The film also traces the money forward: rising addiction rates inside Afghanistan itself, and a drug trade that helps finance the Taliban, which sharpens the security stakes beyond the fields. Interviews with officers and farmers lay out the bind plainly, eradication campaigns that destroy a family's only crop without offering a replacement, and a security vacuum that traffickers are positioned to fill as foreign forces leave. The report stays close to the people enforcing and working the trade rather than the policy debate happening elsewhere.