How the Cold War Created a Drug Epidemic
15I am proud to say I am the first non conspiracy channel to cover this topic, There aren't many videos about how the CIA helped the Heroin trade but there are multiple covering how the CIA helped the crack trade.
SOURCES
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug - Alfred W McCoy (2003)
Vietnam Vets and Heroin usage - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27650054/#:~:text=Robins'%20studies%20found%20high%20rates,soldiers%20while%20serving%20in%20Vietnam.
Faith in US Government - https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/public-trust-in-government-1958-2023/
Information relating to the Indochina Wars and Laotian Civil War -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indochina_Wars
Article about warlords -
https://www.newspapers.com/image/835584844/
Music Used (I don't own the rights to any of it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6G3gB7DksA&ab_channel=KevinMacLeod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjSC_XERa5M&ab_channel=Ragitsu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvCZDHwDLKI&ab_channel=AlecHolowka-Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwQGpTDzcL8&ab_channel=MichaelMcCann-Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4_Ky7EQWlg&ab_channel=MichaelMcCann-Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIIufQKM2K0&ab_channel=VitorB.Macarthy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdmcLm0cEvk&ab_channel=A.K.O.