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Afghan opiate use has doubled in 5 years, UN says (AP)

June 21st, 2010

FILE - In this file photo made on Feb. 2, 2010, Afghan doctors check the blood pressure of an addicted woman at the Sanga Amaj Treatment Center run by Social Services for Afghan Women (SSAW) in Kabul, Afghanistan. Drug use has surged in Afghanistan in the past four years — with nearly three percent of Afghan adults addicted to opiates like heroin and opium, according to a U.N. report released Monday June 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)AP - Drug addicts as young as a month old. Mothers who calm their children by blowing opium smoke in their faces. Whole communities hooked on heroin with few opportunities for treatment.


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