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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