There is a strange dichotomy. The West has taken all the 'legal' resources from many lands, Afghanistan, Columbia, Pakistan, so many African countries, way back over the centuries, leaving their economies needing a black market to survive.
The West now imports these illegal goods, made 'illegal' by governments who create their necessity, for people to escape their very own 'Western existence'.
Opium production doubled after western forces invaded Afghanistan.
The demand is there. Because trickle down doesn't work.
These deaths can, and should be linked to actual government policies in the West.
Where do you start? Let's 'eliminate the bad guys' as you say, let's take out all the venture capitalists, merchant bankers, politicians, because that's where the money washes around, the money that causes violence and the death of a 9 year old girl.