Posts Tagged ‘Afghanistan’

Drug Addiction in US Military

Drug Addiction in US Military this has happened in every war so why should this one be any different

Drug Use in Iran (IranVNC.com)

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, some three-million Iranians are believed to be users of illegal drugs, and the face of the epidemic is changing. As these pictures on a Tehran street show, crack is an increasing menace; a more addictive and dangerous synthetic variation of the heroin smuggled across the [...]

Visions: Development & Illicit Drug Use

Recent United Nations statistics show that more than 250 million people globally consume drugs. And despite global efforts to combat the production, trafficking and consumption of illicit drugs, their use is increasing, particularly in countries surrounding Afghanistan which includes Pakistan, Iran and Central Asia. This episode of Visions explores a new report which provides evidence [...]

Drug Mafia in Punjab, India: 10% girl 33% boy students addicted – MUST Watch Documentary

Starring: Tehelka Editor and Rahul Bose Every third male and every tenth female student has taken drugs on one pretext or the other and seven out of 10 college-going students abuse one or the other drug, High Court told. These disturbing details were submitted by Harjit Singh, Secretary, Department of Social Security and Women & [...]

What are the long-term implications of drugs and bribes being the two largest income generators in Afghanistan?

"…in the past year Afghans paid out .5 billion in bribes and kickbacks—the equivalent of 23 percent of the country’s gross domestic product. The income generated by corruption is exceeded only by the booming opium trade, which brings in an estimated .8 billion annually." http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/01/corruption-afghanistan-its-even-worse-you-think

Drug addicts in Kabul

Excerpt of the film Salam Nawroz – From Mazar to Kandahar. This part is about the heroin addicts vegetating in the former Soviet cultural centre in Kabul. Huge numbers of young men are stranded in this place, that literally made us choke. Meanwhile this place is evacuated – Russia wanted it back for other purposes. [...]

Export of Mass Destruction: Afghan addicts drowning in drug flood

(You may find some images in this video disturbing) Afghanistan – the world’s largest producer of heroin – does not only make other states suffer from its deadly export – the country itself is flooded with cheap drugs. With the tense situation and very vague prospects of a peaceful life even those who want to [...]

A Fateful Harvest – part 7 – Addiction

Over 100000 people use opium in Afghanistan. How many are addicted to heroin? Should opium be used as medicine to calm children? Today, illegal processing in Afghanistan has made drugs cheaper and more available within the country… The result is that increasingly Afghans themselves are succumbing to the dangers of the country’s largest cash crop. [...]

Drug addiction rise Afghanistan

Drug-taking in the Afghan capital Kabul, is on the increase. The ongoing war and poverty in Afghanistan are making it difficult to combat the country’s drug problem. Al Jazeera’s James Bays reports from Kabul.

Drug addiction in Russia