QUOTE (CanRay @ Dec 1 2011, 03:34 PM)

See what happens when you have a war in an opium-rich country? The price of drugs goes up and people make their own, to disastrous consequences.
Actually, the price went down significantly for nearly a decade...until growing other crops became more profitable, which has caused a drop in poppy production in the last two or three years. It doesn't take Aztech to bring market economy to the drug market

I'd guess the popularity of such dangerous substitutes has more to do with the typical post-Soviet drug policies.