ERBIL, Kurdistan Region The number of drug addicts is growing in Iran and universities should teach compulsory courses against narcotics abuse, the countrys deputy chief of combating narcotics said. Alireza Jazini, second in command of Irans Unit of Combating Drugs, said Sunday that students responding to a survey had replied that most had began ...

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Ilam, Jan 7, IRNA Deputy Secretary General for Campaign against Drug-Trafficking Headquarters Alireza Jazini said on Wednesday that the annual abuse of traditional and industrial drugs in Iran exceeds 500 tons a year. Some 243 million people round the globe are addicts to various types of drugs out of which some 200,000 lose their lives due to the ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans anti-narcotics police forces have seized more than 7,000 kilograms of different types of illicit drugs in the country over the past two weeks, the deputy secretary-general of Iran Drug Control Headquarters announced on Wednesday. Total seizures in the mentioned period stood at 7,493 kilograms of various kinds of illicit drugs,...