print email comment close The Opium Kings: Adrian Cowell's 30-year Chronicle of Burma's Heroin Trade and the Rise and Fall of Warlord Khun Sa URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heroin/ Description: Includes U.S. Drug Czars responding to the question How can we crack down on heroin? ; interviews with filmmaker Adrian Cowell, former U.S. Ambassador to Burma Burton Levin, and D.E.A. agent Donald Ferrarone; maps of Burma and major trade routes for heroin; charts detailing world opium production; information on how opium poppies are transformed into heroin and the effects of heroin on the brain; and a timeline of opium throughout history. From the PBS series, Frontline . Publisher: PBS; WGBH/Frontline Library of Congress Subject Headings: Burma -- Politics and government Drug control Golden Triangle (Southeastern Asia) Heroin industry Khun Sa, 1933 or 4- Opium trade Opium trade -- Government policy -- Burma. LII Database Information: Record 3473 created by Tom McGibney on 03/22/2002 Last modification on 05/25/2005 Published: 03/22/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/3473