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Afghanistan. This country is the world's biggest heroin producer. 00:00:02.000 - 00:00:06.720
This programme contains scenes which some viewers may find upsetting. 00:00:06.720 - 00:00:10.400
90% of all opiate drugs come from here. 00:00:10.400 - 00:00:13.480
But now it's one of the worst consumers 00:00:15.440 - 00:00:17.640
of illegal narcotics anywhere. 00:00:17.640 - 00:00:19.920
The addiction situation in Afghanistan 00:00:21.840 - 00:00:24.120
is one of the most disastrous. 00:00:24.120 - 00:00:25.840
We need to act now. 00:00:25.840 - 00:00:26.880
The nation's drug habit is tearing society apart... 00:00:34.920 - 00:00:38.640
life by life. 00:00:38.640 - 00:00:40.960
Tahir Qadiry is a London-based Afghan journalist 00:00:49.600 - 00:00:53.560
with all the connections on the ground. 00:00:53.560 - 00:00:56.400
This is one of the unstable places in the north of Afghanistan. 00:00:57.680 - 00:01:00.760
Now he's back home to find out why this is happening 00:01:00.760 - 00:01:05.319
and investigate the heroin epidemic 00:01:05.319 - 00:01:07.800
that's destroying Afghanistan from within. 00:01:07.800 - 00:01:10.440
Kabul, Afghanistan. 00:01:18.200 - 00:01:19.960
From a distance this city looks beautiful. 00:01:21.040 - 00:01:24.440
But Kabul, like Afghanistan as a whole, 00:01:24.440 - 00:01:28.120
is suffering from an epidemic of hard drug addiction. 00:01:28.120 - 00:01:31.280
More than a million Afghans are now problem drug users - 00:01:32.480 - 00:01:36.240