KABUL, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- More than 35,000 individuals struggling with drug addiction have completed treatment and rejoined their families across Afghanistan over the past year, government ...

Alongside addiction treatment, Mujahid reported that 10,664 beggars were identified and officially registered in major cities ...

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Numerous eradication efforts appear to be failing to cut Afghanistan's dependence on opium. The United Nations World Drug Report for 2009, released last week, revealed that even though opium ...

KABUL -- If his job doesn't kill him, the heroin might. Muhammad Akbar is a first lieutenant in Afghanistan's highly touted army, considered crucial to the future of this war-torn country. But for ...

File - In this April 17, 2014, an Afghan farmer works on a poppy field collecting the green bulbs swollen with raw opium, the main ingredient in heroin, in the Khogyani district of Jalalabad, east of ...

While the cases represent just a slice of possible drug use by U.S. troops in Afghanistan, they provide a somber snapshot of the illicit trade in the war zone, including young Afghans peddling heroin, ...

KABUL (Reuters) - A new U.N. report shows that as well as being the world's biggest supplier of illicit opium-based drugs such as heroin, Afghanistan now also has among the highest rates of addiction.

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A growing number of women and children are becoming entangled in drugs as the country's number of addicts aggressively grows. Women And Children Are The Emerging Face Of Drug Addiction In Afghanistan ...