Three thousand drug addicts sent to a rehabilitation center in Kabul to treat dependence. This is reported by Tolo News with reference to the Department of Internal Affairs of the Provisional Government.
The representative of the department Said Host said that citizens were determined by the hospital named Ibn Sina. “We accelerated the process of collecting addicts and in the coming days to begin this process in other provinces to reduce their number,” he indicated. It is noted that about three million Afghans are dependent on narcotic substances.
According to the publication, the hospital in the capital of Afghanistan is only calculated per thousand beds, but its capacity has been increased three times. According to the chief physician of the hospital Ahmad Zahir Saltani, the decision to treat drug addicts in the hospital was accepted as part of the fight against drug trafficking before the onset of cold weather in the country.
previously became known that after the capture of power in Afghanistan by the militants of the Radical Movement “Taliban” (a terrorist organization forbidden in Russia), the production of opium in the country for 2021 increased by eight percent compared with 2020. To date, the crop of opium in Afghanistan reached 6.8 thousand tons. In 2021, about 320 tons of pure Afghan heroin were exported to the global market.