Tag Archives: Drug Addiction
U.S. Military Ends Anti-Drug Campaign in Afghanistan
Time: The U.S. Sent Its Most Advanced Fighter Jets to Blow Up Cheap Opium Labs. Now It’s Canceling the Program – After hundreds of airstrikes failed to curtail the Taliban’s $200 million-a-year opium trade, the U.S. military quietly ended a yearlong campaign that targeted drug labs and networks laced around the Afghan countryside. The end of
More Than 60,000 Addicts Exist In Herat Province
Tolo News: Counter-narcotics department of Herat province said that more than 60,000 addicts exist in Herat province of which 13 percent are females. The department said that despite the high number of females addicts in the province there are only three treatment centers for them, which have 150 beds available. Click here to read more
Concerns Raised Over Growing Number Of Female Addicts In Kandahar
Tolo News: Kandahar officials have raised concern over the increasing number of female drug addicts in the province. According to local officials, there are currently nine women being treated for drug addiction at a rehabilitation center in the Kandahar. The women said that poverty and insecurity have driven them to using drugs. In March, public health
Nearly 2,000 Addicts Gradually Dying in One Area of the Capital Kabul
Ariana: Nearly 2,000 addicts are spending their day and night in a cemetery in Saray Shamali area of the capital Kabul. Surprisingly, some of the dogs in the area have also been addicted to drugs. People are narrating thousands of stories from the cemetery, even one claims the addicts have taken a dead body out of
Opium production in Afghanistan reaches record high
Al Jazeera / March 17, 2018: Opium production in Afghanistan has been on the rise since the US invasion in 2001. Last year 9,000 tonnes were produced, an increase of 87 percent. As a result, the record number of people turning to drugs in desperation is also increasing. Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley reports from Kabul, Afghanistan.
Helmand Clinic Treats Addicts With Water Therapy
Tolo News: A clinic, established two and half years ago in southern Helmand province, uses water therapy and counseling to treat drug addicts rather than medication. Clinic staff said water therapy was more effective than prescribing medicine. The clinic is now however run by a recovering addict who was once a patient at the clinic. Click
UN: Treatment, Not Prison, Way to Deal With Global Drug Epidemic
Lisa Schlein VOA News June 22, 2017 GENEVA — The United Nations reports about 250 million people, or 5 percent of the global adult population, used drugs in 2015, and of those, about 29.5 million suffered from drug-use disorders, including addiction. The World Drug Report 2017 launched Thursday by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said
Opium use booms in Afghanistan, creating a ‘silent tsunami’ of addicted women
Washington Post: One recent morning, three figures in white lab coats descended cautiously into a pitch-black netherworld beneath a crumbling bridge in the Afghan capital. They picked their way through garbage and sprawled limbs, passing hundreds of huddled men whose gaunt, wary faces were briefly illuminated by the flare of matches and drug pipes. The doctors
Drug addicts Escape Treatment Center Over Uncertain Future
Tolo News: A number of drug addicts hospitalized in the Phoenix drug rehabilitation center in Kabul have escaped over what they said was an uncertain future and because of their treatment at the institution. Sediqa is the mother of four children who is spending devastating life under the Pul-e-Sukhta bridge in the nation’s capital Kabul, has