Sign of Afghan Addiction May Also Be Its Remedy‎

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Hospital for Interior Ministry Addicts is both a symptom of how bad this country’s drug addiction problem is, and a possible solution for one of its worst aspects.

Afghanistan also has a severe shortage of trained police officers, so instead of firing them, it has begun sending them to the Hospital for Interior Ministry Addicts for three- to four-week rehabilitation programs.

Those figures were no surprise. A Government Accountability Office report for the United States Congress last March noted that 12 to 41 percent of Afghan police recruits tested positive for drug use, although that included marijuana and hashish as well as opiates. - Sign of Afghan Addiction May Also Be Its Remedy‎
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