There's a big spread on ABCNews today about Afghanistan's booming problem with heroin addiction. The article is full of images of junkies hunting for veins in bombed out buildings littered with syringes and human waste. Gee, that sounds like shooting galleries everywhere...
Afghanistan has cornered the poppy and heroin market, now producing more than 90 percent of the world's heroin. That huge supply has driven down the street price for the drug here. A 1-gram dose now goes for 60 Afghan rupees, or about $1.10.
The poppy industry has also set off a "secondhand" epidemic; children and spouses of heroin or opium refiners have become hooked from the particles on spouses or father's clothing.
And you though second-hand smoke was bad, now kids have to worry about second-hand opium particles. What a world!
