Afghanistan: Over 1,200 drug addicts being treated at Herat prison

More than 1,200 drug addicts are being treated at a state prison in the western province of Herat, local officials said. The drug users are being treated by governmental institutions in cooperation with private sector companies. The drug users said they were grateful about their treatment.

“I am very happy that I will return to my family. God willing, I will not repeat this action,”. “When I went home, they would kick me out because I was a drug user. I had terrible days,” said Ahmad Shah, a drug user.

During the past several months over 2,000 drug users were brought to the facility in Herat, of whom 800 have recovered and joined their families, officials said. Provincial Governor Mawlawi Noor Ahmad Islam Jar said that these drug users had been intentionally persuaded to use drugs.