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Addiction ravaging Afghanistan called ‘a tsunami’
Boston Globe ^
| November 03, 2013
| Azam Ahmed
Posted on 11/04/2013 4:39:00 PM PST by Pan_Yan
The number of drug users in Afghanistan is estimated to be as high as 1.6 million, or about 5.3 percent of the population, among the highest rates in the world. Nationwide, 1 in 10 urban households has at least one drug user, according to a recent report from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. In the city of Herat, it is 1 in 5.
From 2005 to 2009, the use of opiates doubled, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, putting Afghanistan on par with Russia and Iran, and the number of heroin users jumped more than 140 percent. Most drug experts think the rate of drug use has increased since then.
In a country troubled by adversity, from its long-running war to rampant corruption, drug addiction ranks low among national priorities. Government funding for treatment and outreach is less than $4 million a year.
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The focus of the international community and the Afghan government has instead been on reducing opium production. Since the beginning of the war in 2001, the Americans have spent more than $6 billion to curb Afghanistans opium industry, including eradication and alternative crop subsidies.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; drugaddicts; drugs; islam; opium; rop; tinyviolin; warondrugs
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posted on
11/04/2013 4:39:00 PM PST
by
Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
Shocking, They have Naan and Mantoo.
Pretty boring
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posted on
11/04/2013 4:48:01 PM PST
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: Pan_Yan
Just wait until they discover pork products...
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posted on
11/04/2013 4:52:09 PM PST
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
To: Pan_Yan
I say let them all get high and stay high then pull all our military out. Let the Afghans sort it out on their own. China takes it over and spends their (our) money trying to tame the place.
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posted on
11/04/2013 4:56:15 PM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Red_Devil 232
.
"Taming" Afghanistan would be easy for the Chi-Coms ...
Simply murder "everyone" ... "everyone" ...
Dogs, cats, camels, people ...
and then forcibly relocate 50 million Chinese peasants to work the (new) U.S. discovered strategic metals mines ...
Problem solved.
.
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posted on
11/04/2013 5:11:33 PM PST
by
Patton@Bastogne
(Swine Piss be upon the Sodmite Obama, and his Child-Rapist False Prophet Mohammed)
To: Pan_Yan
Afghanistan has been producing and selling opium for decades. Why is addiction NOW a problem? What’s changed?
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posted on
11/04/2013 5:16:52 PM PST
by
Lizavetta
To: Patton@Bastogne
I kinda like that plan :)
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posted on
11/04/2013 5:19:23 PM PST
by
AllAmericanGirl44
('Hey citizen, what's in YOUR closet?')
To: Lizavetta
Why is addiction NOW a problem? Whats changed?The Taliban cultivated the opium and killed any addicts. We try to kill the opium and enable the addicts.
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posted on
11/04/2013 5:20:58 PM PST
by
Pan_Yan
(Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
To: Patton@Bastogne
That is what China would do and then blame the deaths on a tsunami.
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posted on
11/04/2013 5:23:06 PM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Lizavetta
they are now refining it into heroin...
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posted on
11/04/2013 5:27:54 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Patton@Bastogne
Those rare earth mines... you don’t think the three Superpowers have been squabbing over poppy flowers all this time, that would be silly...
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posted on
11/04/2013 5:28:49 PM PST
by
txhurl
('The DOG ate my homework. That homework, too. ALL my homework. OK?' - POSHITUS)
To: Lizavetta
Afghanistan has been producing and selling opium for decades.
Try centuries, millennia even. The middle eastern narcotics trade predates Christianity and islam.
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posted on
11/04/2013 5:37:16 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: Pan_Yan
WTH are we supposed to do about it?
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posted on
11/04/2013 6:01:00 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: Pan_Yan
but,..but,..but,..everybody I talk with claims it’s impossible to legislate morality, so we just need to decriminalize ALL illegal drug use and all the gang problems will go away.....
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posted on
11/04/2013 6:03:27 PM PST
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: Pan_Yan
If drugs were made legal there wouldn’t be these problems. Medical opium has a nice ring to it.
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posted on
11/05/2013 1:18:22 AM PST
by
count-your-change
(you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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