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(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

In this Oct. 9, 2009 photo, an Afghan opium addict bargains for a pack of opium from a supplier, not seen, on the terrace of the bombed-out ruins of the former Russian Cultural Center, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The U.S. announced Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 that it is giving US$38.7 million to 27 Afghan provinces that either reduced poppy cultivation by more than 10 percent or became poppy free this year.