REHABISTAN - PART 1Queuing for Recovery at Heroin's Ground Zero
TEXT BY JEREMY KELLY, PHOTOS BY TRAVIS BEARD
 s we’ve been telling you in our last few issues, it’s really easy to get opium and heroin in Afghanistan, where over 90 percent of the world’s supply is produced. The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime estimates that there are 1 million drug users in the country—about 4 percent of the population. Of these, about 150,000 are estimated to be using opium or heroin. Some smoke it with dried scorpions and snake heads, while many parents use it in place of medicine. That’s correct: Heroin. As Medicine. For kids.
Naturally, wherever there are people using, there are people needing rehab. Our friend Jeremy Kelly went to see how Afghanistan is working to arrest its rapidly swelling drug problem.
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This poster is real. It means, “Hey, please don’t blow heroin smoke in your baby’s face anymore.” |
TO BE CONTINUED:
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See all articles by this contributor Anonymous, on Nov 11, 2009 wrote:
you never see trees or grass in these hellhole | | Anonymous, on Sep 1, 2009 wrote:
no wonder they are so fucking pissed at us and want to Jihad our asses | | Anonymous, on Aug 10, 2009 wrote:
there is a 12 step fellowship that is worldwide | | Anonymous, on Aug 10, 2009 wrote:
potato needs to be mashed. Wah wah wah like the world isn’t a bad place because of bad people,like most of you.Don’t worry eugenics is coming your way,so you wont have to look and think about things too much longer. | |
| potato, on Aug 8, 2009 wrote:
Crunk city
God rest your soul,’cos i fucking wont ! | | |
| potato, on Aug 8, 2009 wrote:
About methadone,right on !
i left a smack habit for a
physeptone (methadone) habit,
so so hard to come off !.
Went to prison & got off.
(really not as easy as i write !)
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| potato, on Aug 8, 2009 wrote:
The Russian army (when it left)took
thousands of heroin addicts with
it.I believe that it was the begining
of the ’russian mafia’.
once the ready supply of poppy based
drugs was denied to them they used
the infrastructure of the military to
import & distribute & sell heroin !.
History !!!!. | |
| komodo, on Aug 7, 2009 wrote:
damn. shotgunning for kids. that’s so fucked up i never would have thought it existed. i guess the daughter already got hers. it would be one way to do things when you couldn’t get a babysitter at a moment’s notice. | |
| DoubleJ, on Aug 7, 2009 wrote:
this does not surprise me. | | Anonymous, on Aug 7, 2009 wrote:
about methadone, it is more addictive, the shit gets in your bones and takes a month to kick, it is like trying to cure whiskey addiction with vodka, methadone is shit, avoid avoid. | | Anonymous, on Nov 11, 2008 wrote:
heroin all the cool kids are doing it. | | |
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