Afghan youths hit by heroin - 07 Sep 07

While Afghanistan is blamed for the vast majority of heroin that's trafficked around the world, the level of addiction at home is a growing problem. Official figures show more than 900,000 Afghans are hooked on heroin, and nearly a quarter of those addicts are women and children. Alan Fisher reports from Kabul on a new clinic dedicating its efforts to helping women and girls get clean.

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[Oakleaf700]

Poor kid...when one is withdrawing, it feels just the worst thing....so weak, even lying down is exhausting....and the pain of needles is agony.

[lSaif]

Things were not like this under the Taliban... but now that the USA made a treaty with the Northern alliance Afghan poppy production hit a 90% high!

[DunkelNeil]

Reporters lie on history. Opyum was never a problem but west heroin yes, and we talk about

[alicenchains59]

its hard on women,they cant take pain as well

[12TabulaRasa12]

they should stop using illegal drugs

[shadowofears]

CIA Profit Opium Wars

[queensgate1]

tragic. . victims of circumstance ;^/

[nsekh085]

she would like to with girls and boys in schoool...lol, in islam there is no integration...there is segregation of genders! poor girl!

[TheMinette28100]

That is why the Taliban want to destroy the fields of drugs in Afghanistan.

[VvEinarvV]

@TranshumanCyborg Even those medications have side affects and can be very addictive. Most pain and depressive medications are derived from opium. Just like heroin.