HEROIN STATE
Smoking habits dolls? "No," replies the younger girl, 6-year-old Jamila: "They have no right. This is not good. " None of the sisters did not go to school. Their parents are farmers who, after several successive droughts have lost everything. Their age - from 6 to 18 years. They use heroin every day, helping to collect the opium poppy in Herat, Afghanistan. Sometimes they work as "mules", risking their lives to smuggle drugs into Iran. Thirty years of war, lack of infrastructure and the relationship to prevent corrupt state farmers to consider the transition to the cultivation of other crops. Heroin here costs only $ 1 per 1 gram and it is easy to buy in the provinces of Herat, Farah and Nimroz, as they are located on the route of movement between Afghanistan and Iran. For the purchase of pure heroin addicts priority over the purchase of food.
1. 11-year-old Tariq and his 14-year-old brother Hamid show capsules of heroin, which they plan to ship to Iran.Boys swallowed from 5 to 7 5 grams of capsules. They cross the border into adults, and then give them the capsule using a laxative. Children are used in the drug trade, as they cause less suspicion, as if caught sometimes get a lighter sentence. 
2. 16-year-old Ehsan was arrested in the city of Herat for drug use. Like many others, he started in Iran, working daily working. Then he was deported because he did not have a visa. In the juvenile prison, he will have to stop taking the drugs, since there is no way to buy them. 
3. 11-year-old Farzana crystal displays, very pure heroin, which she smokes 2 or 3 times a day. She says that if you do not use heroin in a single day, you feel the pain in the body. Her parents went to beg in the city and left her, and 7-year-old sister with drugs to spend a quiet day. Drug abuse among children is widespread in Afghanistan, as there is a strong belief that opium - this medicine. 30 years of war have made Afghanistan narco-state. 
4. Obaid injects himself with heroin in the cemetery in the city of Herat. He started in Iran before been deported for illegal stay. The young man said that he was 18 years old, but many minor drug addicts lie about his age to get in, where to get adult drugs. In prisons for juvenile detainees are forced to stop taking drugs, so how to implement the smuggling of heroin is very difficult. 
5. 9-year-old Mahdiye after smoking heroin. She smokes it for at least 3 times a day and uses very pure heroin made in Afghanistan, also known as crystal. She says she is addicted and wants to quit, but the hospital is far and expensive. In Afghanistan, there is a strong belief that opium - this medicine. Mahdiye family that lives on the border with Iran, where the half of the trading in opium and heroin, can find very cheap heroin.
6. Mahdiye 9-year-old and her 11-year-old cousin Rafik smoke crystal, very pure heroin. Mahdiye says that when not using heroin in a single day, you feel the pain in my legs. She began taking the drug two years ago with his parents, drug addicts, too. 
7. Child weed poppy field of weeds in the remote province of Badakhshan in the north-east. Opium production in the region has more than doubled in 2011, according to UNODC, the system of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. 
8. Man pierces poppy box in Badakhshan Province in north-eastern Afghanistan. 
9. Opium collected in a container of aluminum. The farmer can easily help out $ 7,000 with a 50 sqm. meters of a poppy field. 
10. Afghan farmers collect opium poppy, opium latex to get used to manufacture heroin sold in Western countries. 
11. Poppy field in the province of Badakhshan during the season. 
12. View of the cemetery of the city of Herat, where they often get together and even sleep at night addicts. 
13. The two men introduced themselves to the groin heroin, because all their veins are damaged. Since 2001, the number of heroin addicts has increased dramatically. Heroin is cheap, because it is made from opium grown in Afghanistan - the first world producer. 
14. Drug addicts inject themselves with heroin in the cemetery. 
15. Husband MOZHD Gul was killed in Iran after he was caught for smuggling 250 grams of heroin. She is now working in a small organization, where talks to other women that they should not allow their husbands to the opium trade. Iran has a strict policy on drugs. Most smugglers sentenced to death and will be hanged. The family must pay for the rope to get the body back for burial. 
16. 12-year-old Samir shows 7 capsules of heroin, which he was going to swallow it. Heroin is called crystal because of its purity. He travels to Iran with 7-8 capsules inside, and then uses laxatives. It transmits it to the merchant on the other side of the border. If the capsule rupture, he would die of a heroin overdose. 
17. 40-year-old Ahmad smokes opium in the house next to her son, 6-year-old Vaesom. In Afghanistan, opium is medicine. Parents often treat children with opium, when they can not afford to pay the doctor. Ahmad says that he married off his 14-year-old daughter to get money through dowry. His wife, also a drug addiction, complains that all the money went to buy opium. 
18. 12-year-old Samir shows 7 capsules of heroin, which he was going to swallow it. Heroin is called crystal because of its purity. He travels to Iran with 7-8 capsules inside, and then uses laxatives. It transmits it to the merchant on the other side of the border. If the capsule rupture, he would die of a heroin overdose. 
19. Police Drug Enforcement Badakhshan destroy opium poppy fields, planted a few weeks before. Farmers complain that they have few alternatives to make a living. 
20. 30-year-old Mohammed Daud was addicted to heroin. His mother has chained his legs so that he can not go out and buy drugs. 
21. Police Drug Enforcement scours cars and trucks on the checkpoint created outside the city of Herat. Only 1% of the turnover of the drug trade remains in Afghanistan, according to the UNODC. 
22. 11-year-old Rafiq and his 7-year-old sister Soeyla drive up to the border with Iran. They travel in the trunk of a car 12 km to reach the point of crossing the Iranian border and begging. The car fits 13 people. 
23. Children carrying the luggage of passengers who arrived in Iran or leave from it. For drug smugglers children play the role of mules because they cause less suspicion and require less money. 
24. Soeyla begs the travelers traveling to or from Iran. Their brother earnings can be up to $ 4 a day. The family will spend the money on a crystal pure heroin made in Afghanistan. 
25. 7-year-old Jamila smokes crystal pure heroin. 
26. 11-year-old Rafik his 10-year-old cousin Mir Agha smoke crystal, very pure heroin is sometimes mixed with amphetamines. Drugs produced in Afghanistan, quickly addictive. Agha said he tried five times to stop. 
27. 11-year-old Farzana playing with a doll after the use of pure heroin.
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Post time 7-7-2013 10:25 PM
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