Kabul Restaurant Helps Drug Addicts Kick the Habit
Kabul Restaurant Helps Drug Addicts Kick the Habit – An Afghan woman who runs a shelter for drug addicts opens a restaurant. She gives them a chance to rebuild their lives by hiring them in her restaurant. Full…
Beaverton man gets 4 years in prison for robbery attempt that led to friend's …
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"I've been using drugs all my life as a way of escaping." Rhee told the judge that drug addiction and running out of money made him do things he didn't "really need to do." "I've found myself to be in the wrong place at the wrong time too many times …
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The unlikely winner in the war on drugs? Iran
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In an April article for Foreign Affairs entitled "How Iran Won the War on Drugs," Amir A. Afkhami discussed how a recent turn to preventative methods has vastly improved Iran's drug addiction problem, noting that by the year 2002, "over 50 percent of …
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Afghanistan: US Building Giant Narco-State
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That crop generates billions of dollars in annual income for the Taliban insurgency we've been fighting — and it fuels drug addiction here and around the world. To combat the drug trade, Washington followed a three-part strategy. We destroyed …
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