8. Panacea for pain

                   
thestar.com.my     May 12, 2008            

Jobless and impoverished, Afghans turn to drugs to forget their troubles. ... JAM Bigum, a drug addict in Afghanistan’s impoverished northern province of Badakhshan, feeds her three-month-old son opium three times a day to keep him quiet. Naik Bakhat, a 35-year-old... [read full story]                    

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Southwest Asia: Iran Accuses West of Ignoring Afghan Opium, US Marines Conveniently Aid Tehran's...

stopthedrugwar.org     May 9, 2008          

Iran Wednesday accused the US and NATO of indifference to Afghanistan's booming opium trade and called on the West to help fight smuggling of opium and heroin across the border the two countries share. A day earlier, an Associated Press story about US Marines newly deployed to Afghanistan's...                    

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Panacea for pain

thestar.com.my     May 12, 2008          

Jobless and impoverished, Afghans turn to drugs to forget their troubles. ... JAM Bigum, a drug addict in Afghanistan’s impoverished northern province of Badakhshan, feeds her three-month-old son opium three times a day to keep him quiet. Naik Bakhat, a 35-year-old...                    

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