Saturday, 25 December 2021 (YJC)_ Taliban officials have turned Kandahar Central Prison into a place for drug treatment.
Taliban officials have turned Kandahar Central Prison into a treatment center for drug addicts.
Anatolia News Agency reports that 800 addicts and 1,000 prisoners are currently being held in Kandahar Central Prison.
Rumi Mansour, deputy director of Kandahar Prison, said:
We have provided many opportunities for them (addicts) and we have hired a special teacher to quit drugs. We also set up a clinic for them. If they are not treated here, they will be taken to a hospital for addicts. We do our best to make them quit drugs.
One of the patients at the center said that there are good facilities for quitting addiction.
He added: "Before being transferred to the prison, we were in the city cemetery and we did not have enough food to eat, but now we have 3 meals a day and this prison is good for us."
Some 3 million people across Afghanistan are reportedly addicted, but the Taliban have not confirmed this figure.
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