Women addicted to drugs in Iran begin seeking treatment despite taboo

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Women addicted to drugs in Iran begin seeking treatment despite taboo
Jason Rezaian PUBLISHED: MAY 11


TEHRAN — On the western outskirts of this city, in an industrial neighborhood of factories and dusty half-constructed lots, a metal-walled building houses women with a secret.

They are female drug addicts, a growing class of people with a habit so taboo in this traditional Islamic society that some Iranians believe they deserve death. But the modest facility here, a substance-abuse rehabilitation center for women, is one sign that attitudes are slowly changing as Iran begins to confront an uncomfortable problem that long went ignored.


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[S.J.B.]

Thanks for posting this, it's not often we get to peek into the reality of drug addicts in a country like Iran. I wasn't aware that methamphetamine is common there.

Iran executes more drug traffickers than any other country in the world (except for, most likely, China), and what do they have to show for it? An astonishing 4% of the population is estimated to be addicted to illicit drugs. So much for the prohibitionist argument that the War on Drugs would work great if only it were fought more mercilessly.

 

[Crankinit]

Thanks for posting this, it's not often we get to peek into the reality of drug addicts in a country like Iran. I wasn't aware that methamphetamine is common there.

Iran executes more drug traffickers than any other country in the world (except for, most likely, China), and what do they have to show for it? An astonishing 4% of the population is estimated to be addicted to illicit drugs. So much for the prohibitionist argument that the War on Drugs would work great if only it were fought more mercilessly.

But obviously all they have to do is start executing the addicts too, and then the fear of death will stop them using dangerous drugs once and for all.