Narcotics within Afghanistan

Narcotics within Afghanistan

Narcotics within Afghanistan

Since most of the world's opium is grown in Afghanistan, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, and Mynamar, it leaves these countries with a significant development of drug addicts. In Pakistan, there is an estimated 650,000 heroin user with no end in sight for the increases. A study among potentially vulnerable groups in Bangladesh which includes youths, students, unemployed, industrial workers, commercial sex workers, slum residents, transport workers and prison inmates, showed a lifetime prevalence of abuse for heroin (2.9%) and opium (2.3%). The coca plant, which is where cocaine is derived from, is ...