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Opium use booms in Afghanistan, creating a ‘silent tsunami’ of addicted women

20th June, 2017 · admin

drug_addictionWashington 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 were headed to a lone tent pitched nearby on the dry riverbed, where they knew that a female addict named Marzia had been sleeping on her own. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Afghan Women, Health News | Tags: Drug Addiction, opium |
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