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Kabul: More than one
million Afghans, aged 15 to 64, are suffering from drug addiction,
an official said Wednesday.
The causes of drug addiction are poverty, illiteracy, conflicts,
migrations, illusions about drugs and unemployment, Xinhua quoted
Mohammad Tahir Sultani, head of a drug addicts' hospital, as
saying.
He was speaking to reporters following the launch of a campaign
against drug use by the Afghan ministries of public health,
counter-narcotics and interior affairs.
Sultani urged the government and the international community to
invest more in the treatment of drug addicts and eradication of
poverty.
Afghanistan remains the main producer of opium as about 90 percent
of the world's opium, the raw material used in manufacturing
heroin, is produced in the country.
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