Crystal meth users pose problems for Afghanistan's future

The number of crystal meth users in Afghanistan has risen sharply in recent years, which is especially dangerous in a country that has already been so plagued by opium addictions.  Afghanistan is the world's leading producer of opium, and profits from heroin production are used to fund the Taliban.  There are already more than one million opium addicts in the country, and their treatment options are much more limited than in other countries.  The growing prevalence of crystal meth use poses a problem for the country, now that foreign troops have been removed; there is the possibility of a "power vacuum" as well as the possibility that the country becomes part of trafficking meth made from Iran into other countries in the Pacific.

Marion Gibney
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