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[19 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
“Opium eases my pain, keeps my children quiet”

It is unclear how many Afghan women use opium, but a 2005 addiction survey by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) put the number of adult female drug users in the country at 120,000. At least 900,000 Afghans were estimated to be drug addicts out of a population of 25 million in 2005.
Afghanistan has become by far the world’s main opium producer, with a share of world supplies that increased from 42% in 1990 to 87% in 2005.
Over the 2000-04 period, and despite adverse weather, yields in Afghanistan …