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Drug abuse in Iran rising despite executions, police raids
Associated Press ^ | Feb. 12, 2015 10:25 AM EST | Ali Akbar Dareini

Posted on 02/12/2015 7:38:41 AM PST by Olog-hai

Iran is breaking bad.

Officials say methamphetamine production and abuse of hard drugs are skyrocketing in the country despite potentially lethal criminal penalties for users if they are caught. The increase is partly because of Iran’s status as the gateway for the region’s top drug exporter, Afghanistan—and partly because Iranian dealers are profiting so handsomely from sales to overstressed students and exhausted double-jobbers.

Ghazal Tolouian, a psychologist who treats dozens of meth addicts at a therapy camp in a mountain village northwest of Tehran, says most of her clients fall into two categories: students “who want to pass university entrance exams successfully,” and “people who have to work a second and third shift to make ends meet and earn more money.”

Anti-narcotics and medical officials say more than 2.2 million of Iran’s 80 million citizens already are addicted to illegal drugs, including 1.3 million on registered treatment programs. They say the numbers keep rising annually, even though use of the death penalty against convicted smugglers has increased, too, and now accounts for more than nine of every ten executions. …

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: amphetamines; drugabuse; iran; rop; wod
Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious. Islam does not allow swimming in the sea and is opposed to radio and television serials. Islam, however, allows marksmanship, horseback riding and competition. …
Looks like Khomeini’s ideal society is self-destructive (and destructive in general) in more ways than one. No fun and no joy means that those trapped in Islam look for an escape.
1 posted on 02/12/2015 7:38:41 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I’ve also read that prostitution is also rampant in Iran, and most of the hookers working in the Gulf are Iranian.

Sign of a society and economy in decline.


2 posted on 02/12/2015 8:00:28 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Olog-hai

you either have to be high or dead to live in Iran . .
too bad


3 posted on 02/12/2015 8:50:13 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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Iranian dealers are profiting so handsomely from sales to overstressed students and exhausted double-jobbers.

Even Islamofascism can't repeal the law of supply and demand - that should tell us something.

4 posted on 02/12/2015 10:10:59 AM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

It is also noteworthy that Shi’a Twelver Islam induces this demand when rigorously applied.


5 posted on 02/12/2015 10:15:29 AM PST by Olog-hai
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Drug abuse in Iran rising despite executions, police raids

Maybe when you live somewhere that does not allow you freedom, physically or mentally you take the only trip to freedom available to you. Allah help them if there is a shortage of goats and camels!

6 posted on 02/12/2015 10:19:49 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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