In Afghanistan, the new power displays its willingness to fight against drug consumers. A paradox in a country that is the world’s largest producer of opium and cannabis.
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In Afghanistan, it is the Ministry of the Interior that manages the problems of drug addiction, an endemic phenomenon that would affect, according to the UN, 10% of the population, or nearly four million people. He has made the fight against this scourge one of the expenders of his action for the country and intends to rid the cities of the degrading image of these groups of men gathered under bridges or in squares to indulge in their addiction. According to the Ministry of Security, it is even the “treatment of drug addicts that will defeat drug trafficking in the country”.
Monday, November 22, Saeed Khosti, the spokesman for the Minister of the Interior, announced, as a success, that in Kabul, nearly 3,000 drug addicts had been conducted in the last two weeks in A detox center. “We launched a rapid support for drug addicts, he said, and we will bring others to the hospital in the coming days, the process also concerns the other provinces, until he there is no longer a single addict. “
Because ill – treatment
This “support” is mainly raiding. She is conducted in Kabul by armed men who hunt the drug addicts of their benchmarks and lockers in part of the Ibn Sina hospital that has increased by three his home capabilities since September. They then follow a process of “detoxification” of forty-five days, at the end of which they are considered as neat.
Shaved heads upon arrival, all dressed in identical tunics, these men in the air haggard are strength, passing their days lying on their beds in dormitories or curled up in the courses of the establishment when the cold does not do not confine them. The rare methadone is quickly distributed for opium addicts and no substitute exists for methamphetamine. Finally, within the center, life is settled by “team leaders”, also drug addicts, behaving like prison caids multiplying ill-treatment.
Due to lack of real medical follow-up, the same drug addicts are constantly returning. In other cities across the country, such as Mazar-e-Sharif (North), the scheme is identical except that they are employees of the Ministry of Health that trailing on toxicomans on tribunan cars. The blows often rain. Paradox, in this end of November, while the Taliban power communicates on its fight against drug consumers, cannabis harvest is in full swing. The country will be again in 2021 the world’s largest producer, as for opium.