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In Afghanistan, a Drug Sparks Hope — and Charges of Quackery

10/08/202014/08/2020

LAM GUL ALAM’S symptoms had been steadily worsening for weeks when he decided to visit an herbalist named Haji Mohammad Alkozai. The 30-year-old civil servant from Kabul had intently watched a video clip making the rounds on Afghan social media, in which […]

#Addiction#Afghanistan#Children#Conflict#Daesh#Drugs#Features#Herat#ISIS#Latest#Refugees#Taliban

Why Iran Is Deporting Scores of Afghan Refugees – Foreign Policy

14/01/202014/04/2020

It had been more than three decades since 48-year-old Zahra, who asked to be identified only by her first name, left Afghanistan with her husband to escape the increasing violence that would plague her country for many years to come. […]

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Inside Mother Camp: the woman tackling Afghanistan’s drug problem

02/01/201902/01/2019

Laila Haidari risks her life to run the country’s only private rehabilitation centre, helping hundreds of addicts a year

#Afghanistan#Archive#Conflict#Drugs#Economy#Taliban

US anti-narcotics policy backfires in Afghanistan

01/02/201831/10/2018

Failing economy, growing insurgency and low returns from food crops have left tens of thousands of Afghan farmers with no other choice but to return to poppy cultivation after a gap of 13 years.

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In Afghanistan, ‘Mother’ has her own approach to helping drug addicts

14/10/201613/07/2017

Laila Haidari founded a shelter in Kabul to help those struggling with addiction. Some 3,600 people, she says, have left the facility recovered.

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