FARAH CITY (Pajhwok): More than 3.5 million people became addicted to the use drugs during the past two decades in Afghanistan, a senior Ministry of Interior (MoI) official said on Monday.
Maulvi Abdul Khaliq Hamkar, the deputy assistant of counter-narcotics department of MoI, told a gathering in Farah province: “In the past two decades, 3.5 youth became drug addicts in the country, which is a huge loss to our country.”
He said 47,000 addicts were sent to addicts rehabilitation hospitals and treated for their addiction since the caretaker government’s coming into power.
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