Insight: Lifting a deceive on Afghanistan’s womanlike addicts

KABUL (Reuters) Anita carried a sky-blue burqa from her face, divulgence glassy eyes and burst lips from years of smoking opium, and overwhelmed her saggy belly, still turn from giving birth to her seventh child a month ago.
I cant give breast divert to my baby, pronounced a 32-year-old Anita, who like other women interviewed for this story, declined to give her full name. Im frightened hell get addicted
She was huddled with other women during a U.N.-funded Nejat drug reconstruction center in a aged entertain of Kabul, carrying sneaked out of her home to equivocate being stopped by her father from going outward alone.
With small appropriation and no entrance to transformation drugs such as methadone, diagnosis is easy during Nejat for a problem that is flourishing in a bad nation riven by conflicts for some-more than 3 decades.
Afghanistan is a source for some-more than 90 percent of a worlds opium, that is used to make heroin...