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Kabul’s notorious drug ‘den’ cleared of addicts: officials

19th January, 2023 · admin

Ariana: Pul-e-Sokhta, in the west of Kabul, has for more than 20 years been the hub for drug addicts and their dealers in the city, but this week, the area was cleared by police, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) [Taliban] officials said. Khaled Zadran, Kabul Police Command spokesman, said that Pul-e- Sokhta has been completely

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Posted in Drugs, Health News | Tags: Drug Addiction, Kabul |
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Afghanistan’s Drug Trade Flourishes Under the Ruling Taliban Regime

21st December, 2022 · admin

Khaama: After taking power last August, the Taliban promised to crack down on narcotics and explicitly ban the production, processing and sale of illicit drugs. On the contrary, the drug trade in Afghanistan did not only remain untouched but boomed to a great extent. The number of drug addicts including men, women and young children

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Posted in Drugs, Economic News, Health News, Taliban | Tags: Drug Addiction, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban and Drugs, Taliban government failure |
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Afghanistan: ‘I drug my hungry children to help them sleep’

24th November, 2022 · admin

BBC: Afghans are giving their hungry children medicines to sedate them – others have sold their daughters and organs to survive. In the second winter since the Taliban took over and foreign funds were frozen, millions are a step away from famine. “Our children keep crying, and they don’t sleep. We have no food,” Abdul

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Posted in Afghan Children, Drugs, Economic News, Health News | Tags: Drug Addiction |
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Afghan Rehab Centers Failing Drug Addicts After Taliban Takeover

12th November, 2022 · admin

The director of a 1,000-bed rehabilitation center for drug addicts in Kabul says they don’t have enough basic food, medicine, and clothes for patients. Many rehabilitation centers have closed or are struggling to remain open since international charities cut or reduced funding after the Taliban returned to power in August 2021.

Posted in Drugs, Economic News, Health News, Taliban | Tags: Drug Addiction, Taliban government failure |
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Taliban Make Little Progress in Countering Drugs

9th September, 2022 · admin

Akmal Dawi VOA News September 9, 2022 Unlike his predecessor, who almost terminated opium production in Afghanistan in the last year of Taliban rule with one decree in 2000, the current supreme leader of the Taliban appears to be unsuccessful in implementing his ban on opium production. In April, shortly after Afghan famers harvested opium

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Posted in Drugs, Economic News, Taliban | Tags: Drug Addiction, opium, Poppy cultivation, Taliban and Drugs, Taliban government failure |
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Taliban Group Fails to Control Drug Addicts in Ghazni Province

8th September, 2022 · admin

8am: According to residents, Pas Hesar area in the 1st security district of ​​Ghazni city has become one of the safe havens for drug addicts. Since the Taliban regime came to power in August last year, the number of drug addicts has increased in Afghanistan compared to last year. Click here to read more (external

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Posted in Drugs, Health News, Society, Taliban | Tags: Drug Addiction, Ghazni, Taliban and Drugs, Taliban government failure |
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Taliban Rebels Kill Two Addicts in Kabul

11th August, 2022 · admin

8am: Sources report the killing of two drug addicts by the Taliban in Joy Shir area of ​​Kabul city. On Wednesday, sources said that Taliban fighters first beat up two addicts and then one of the Taliban fighters hit one of the addicts with a knife and when the addict ran away, the Taliban fighter

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Posted in Drugs, Health News, Taliban | Tags: Drug Addiction, Life under Taliban rule |
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Photos: Despair and poverty fuel drug use in Afghanistan

25th July, 2022 · admin

Al Jazeera: Drug addiction has long been a problem in Afghanistan, the world’s biggest producer of opium and heroin and now a chief source of methamphetamine. Drug use has been driven by persistent poverty and decades of war that left few families unscarred. It appears to be getting worse since the country’s economy collapsed following

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Posted in Health News, Photos | Tags: Drug Addiction, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban and Drugs |
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Despair and poverty fuel drug use in Afghanistan

21st July, 2022 · admin

AP: Hundreds of men, strung out on heroin, opium and meth, were strewn over the hillside overlooking Kabul, some in tents, some lying in the dirt. Dogs skulked around because they sometimes give them drugs, and there were bodies of overdosed dogs amid the garbage. Men here as well slip, quiet and alone, across the

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Posted in Drugs, Economic News, Health News | Tags: Drug Addiction |
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The Taliban’s drug ban spells bad news for the UK and Europe – here’s why

16th April, 2022 · admin

The Independent (UK): Apart from the potentially ruinous domestic impact, the collapse of Afghanistan’s heroin trade may also usher in a new era of drug trafficking in Europe and the UK, where most Afghan-sourced heroin is consumed. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Britain-Afghanistan Relations, Drugs, Economic News, EU-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban | Tags: Drug Addiction, Taliban and Drugs |
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