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"AFGHANISTAN OPIUM WARS"

An Afghan opium addict has his head shaved as he is accepted into a two-week-long drug rehabilitation program at an Afghan-run clinic called the Najat center in Kabul. Because of limited numbers of beds and doctors at the center, only 5 addicts can enter the two-week program each week. Drug addiction is on the rise in this Muslim nation, though many Afghans consider use of the drug, if not poppy cultivation, to be forbidden by Islam.