Afghanistan. This country is the
world's biggest heroin producer. |
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This programme contains scenes which
some viewers may find upsetting. |
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90% of all opiate drugs
come from here. |
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But now it's one of
the worst consumers |
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of illegal narcotics anywhere. |
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The addiction situation
in Afghanistan |
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is one of the most disastrous. |
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We need to act now. |
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The nation's drug habit
is tearing society apart... |
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life by life. |
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Tahir Qadiry is a London-based
Afghan journalist |
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with all the connections
on the ground. |
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This is one of the unstable places
in the north of Afghanistan. |
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Now he's back home to find out
why this is happening |
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and investigate the heroin epidemic |
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that's destroying
Afghanistan from within. |
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Kabul, Afghanistan. |
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From a distance
this city looks beautiful. |
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But Kabul,
like Afghanistan as a whole, |
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is suffering from an epidemic
of hard drug addiction. |
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More than a million Afghans
are now problem drug users - |
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