Nasim Fekrat

A young man who was repatriated from Turkey while he was intend to cross the border to reach Europe. After spending several months in prison in Turkey he repatriated to Iran border and Iranian police border caught him and put him jail. After 6 months he repatriated to Afghanistan. He became addicted in Iran and now he is in Russian Cultural Palace among hundreds of other addicts who wriggling with their wounded bodies in the darkness of corridors. These addicts who are staying inside the Russian Cultural Palace told that they became addict in Iran. According to the U.N., there are a million Afghan drug addicts. But the actual number is at least double that with, women and children make up a quarter of those addicts. Afghanistan, the world’s largest producer of opium, is drowning in a troubling sea of its own making. While the country’s narco-traffickers ship vast quantities of the drug to Europe and the United States, enough of it stays behind to offer a cheap and easy temptation to the people at home. At left, addicts inside the old Soviet Cultural Center. Addiction in Afghanistan has risen along with the country’s opium production, which is now cranking at something close to fever pitch. With much of its society and many of its institutions ruined by 30 years of fighting, Afghanistan produces more than 90 percent of the world’s opium. Profits from the drug sales feed the Taliban insurgency.