A Fateful Harvest – Part 7 – Addiction
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. A recent United Nations survey puts the number of heroin addicts throughout the country at 50000. That’s in addition to 150000 people who use opium. Poverty and unemployment are two causes of drug abuse. But in Afghanistan, there’s another reason: Antonio Maria Costa: ‘…during the past quarter century, so many conflicts — against the Soviets, against one another, the mujahadin, the Civil War period, the Taliban rules, the fight against the Taliban, all of this has created a context whereby people, especially internally displaced people, especially refugees, finding themselves in dire conditions, so some of them started to use opium as a way of just forgetting the daily chores, and the daily difficulties and the tragedies in life President Karzai: ‘…drug addiction unfortunately has come to Afghanistan, mainly as consequence of being refugees in our neighboring countries. It ruins families, its something that worries me a lot its something that we have not yet has done much unfortunately.’ Many of the country’s addicts picked up their habit elsewhere — in neighboring Pakistan … or Iran, where per capita heroin use is the …
Volunteers needed to support families affected by drugs and alcohol
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The Families in Recovery Project, which run by Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) and commissioned by the Sheffield Drugs and Alcohol Domestic Abuse Co-ordination Team (DACT), is looking for more volunteers to support its …
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drugs gang jailed for over 30 years
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“The damage caused by drugs of this kind in physical and mental health is too well known and it is a significant cause of crime committed by addicts to fund their addiction,” he commented passing sentence. After the hearing, Detective Superintendent …
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Front & Center: Targeting guns and mental health
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A: Addressing the cause of violence is number one. Efforts to get illegal guns off the street are helpful and necessary. We must deal with the behavior and make changes that will … More mental-health services for the population that cannot pay are …
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