Opium
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - NOVERMBER 2004: An anti-drugs campaign poster at the Nejat Centre, founded in 1991, which is helping women who are addicted in drugs. A lot of women are addicted to opium in Afghanistan. Medecication of all kinds is very difficult to access, so the opium is used instead, to aid sleep, to fight the a cough, to help breathing, etc. Even babies consume it in their milk bottle to help them sleep. Mothers introduce some in their mouthes if they have a cough, or even rectally when they are really ill. Eventually, because they feel depressed or cannot sleep, they will take more and more and inevitably become addicted. All the women here at the Centre tell the same story. Because they are ashamed of themselves, it is hard to photograph them, but after an hour of talking to them, they start to open up and tell their stories. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Getty Images)
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