Afghanistan: US Supported Trade in Heroin
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US Supported Trade in Heroin: One Million Women, 100,000 Children Drug Addicts in Afghanistan
"Thanks to the U.S. invasion, Afghanistan is a narco-state today," says Friba, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan's representative
By Edu Montesanti and Malalai Joya
At least one million women and 100,000 children are drug addicts in Afghanistan, said on Sunday (March 11) the head of the anti-drug department at the public health ministry of the Central Asian nation, Shahpor Yusuf, at an event at a drug rehabilitation center in Kabul to mark International Women’s Day (March 8).
“There are between 900,000 and million women and around 100,000 children who have turned to drugs,” said the Afghan official according to TOLO News. Yusuf added that the children w...