That's another reason for the false-flag events of 9/11 and the subsequent invasion of Afghanistan!
Also see: Russia: Victim of U.S./NATO Narco-Aggression
And here is more of Bush's liberation!
"Drug addiction growing rapidly in Afghanistan"
"by Candace Rondeaux, Washington Post | April 10, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan - The first days were so painful that Mina Gul could barely sit upright. Thin and lanky with wide brown eyes, she rubbed the back of her neck ceaselessly with fingers stained reddish black by an opium pipe. She could not shake the nausea. The light was almost blinding in the clean, white-walled medical clinic, where she lay crumpled in bed for days.
Before that, opium had been about the only thing keeping Gul afloat. It started four years ago with the headaches. A relative told her to try a bit of opium as a cure. "I tried it once a little - then the next day more, then more again, and then I was addicted," Gul said.
Since then, her husband has stopped working and the eldest of her four children is more often on the streets than in school. Gul, 36, spends most of her time in a hospital bed.
Gul is one of 20 women in residential treatment at the Sanga Amaj center in Afghanistan's capital. The small, two-story clinic near Kabul University is one of 40 drug treatment clinics in Afghanistan run by international aid organizations.
More than six years after US-led forces launched a military campaign against the ruling Taliban movement, drug addiction is fast becoming a major concern for the government. With opium production reaching a record high of 6,000 tons last year, according to the United Nations, domestic addiction rates in this nation of nearly 32 million have also soared. A 2005 UN report estimated that Afghanistan was home to about 1 million drug abusers.
Among the country's addicts, about 13 percent are women and 7 percent are children, Afghan government officials say. Most of the women are opium addicts desperate to blunt the trauma of endless war. Many are illiterate mothers with unemployed husbands. Most have little in the way of job skills, and some became addicts while picking opium poppies to earn a living and support their families, said Zalmai Afzali, a spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Counternarcotics.
"Afghanistan has been ravaged by 30 to 35 years of war. Everything has been destroyed here, so it's not surprising that people turn to drugs," Afzali said.
High rates of addiction have forced aid organizations to step in to fill the vacuum left by a government still struggling with an insurgency, meager resources, and endemic corruption. The number of drug treatment clinics has doubled during the past two years, Afzali said, with an additional 34 mobile treatment clinics for women operating across the country.
This is a disaster, readers!
Treatment for female addicts is especially difficult, specialists here say, because women in rural, conservative parts of the country - particularly in places such as Helmand Province in the south, the world's largest opium-producing region - are often not allowed out of the house. While drug addicts around the world endure shame, the stigma for Afghan women who seek treatment can sometimes produce violent responses from their families. In a country where the average per-capita income is about $1,000 a year, addiction for women often leads to desperation.
"We had a patient here who wanted to sell one of her kids," said Toorpekay Zazai, a doctor who heads the Sanga Amaj center.
At least she didn't throw them in the trash like here in AmeriKa!
"She said she didn't have enough money to buy food or clothes for him. Finally, we managed to get to her relatives in Canada, who were able to help with some money. But there are lots of stories like that from the women here."
But, but, but... Bush liberated them!! I know, because he told me he did!
About 300 women have successfully completed treatment at Sanga Amaj since the center opened last June, Zazai said. Women treated by the clinic's three doctors usually stay for at least a month.
The first two weeks are spent purging the body of drugs. Gradually, the women begin participating in group therapy and learning skills such as sewing, embroidery, and knitting. Successful treatment ends with a celebratory feast at which residents, staff members, and former patients share stories of battling addiction.
For every success there is a relapse, clinic doctors say. Women often spend weeks getting get clean, only to return to households seized by addiction.
"We have cases where whole families are addicted, so when the woman goes home from treatment, the husband is still addicted and you have to start all over," Zazai said."Why did we ever have to go there, readers?!
So it is not only Iraq, but Afghanistan Bush has decimated!
I'm sorry, world!!!
