Exports dropped to functionally zero in 2001. Enter the US in October 2001 and production was almost immediately fully restored.

“Its opium production surged from around 180 tonnes in 2001 to more than 3,000 tonnes a year after the invasion, and to more than 8,000 by 2007.”

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/09/how-the-heroin-trade-explains-the-us-uk-failure-in-afghanistan

The editorializing on where the money goes doesn’t matter- I suspect it’s more MSM lies. There was no opium trade money in 2001 after it was banned by the Taliban and it flowed back after the invasion.