IRNA Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi said on Tuesday that the news that Iranian drug addicts are dispatched to Herat city is a 'lie.' Qasemi noted that Iranian representative offices in Afghanistan have not confirmed the news. He added that it seems that dissemination of such news followed special goals. He reiterated that the news ...

IFP- Iranian legislators have passed a motion to hand out narcotics to drug addicts to help them give up their addiction. Iranian lawmakers have adopted a motion to distribute diluted narcotics among drug addicts in a bid to cut off their relationship with drug traffickers, said Hassan Norouzi, the spokesperson for the Parliaments Judicial and Legal ...

At the event, the rehabilitated addicts appealed to others afflicted by addiction to quit. In a symbolic move, a number of Iranian women who have succeeded in beating their drug addiction took part in a march in a Tehran park on October 9. The rehabilitated addicts appealed to others afflicted by addiction to kick the habit. The following ...

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 ...

Tehran, Aug 19, IRNA -- The 8th International Congress on Addiction Science will be held at Iran Medical University in Tehran during September 10-12. Iran Medical University, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Health Ministry, Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, State Welfare Organization, Drug Control Headquarters,...

TEHRAN On the western outskirts of this city, in an industrial neighborhood of factories and dusty half-constructed lots, a metal-walled building houses women with a secret. They are female drug addicts, a growing class of people with a habit so taboo in this traditional Islamic society that some Iranians believe they deserve death. But the modest ...

[caption id="attachment_94110" align="alignright" width="207"] Handcuffed suspects sit on the ground after officers arrest and detain suspected drug users and dealers during a sweep in a southern neighborhood of Tehran, April 7, 2009. (photo by REUTERS/Jamejam Online/Chavosh Homavandi)[/caption] TEHRAN, Iran Babak Dinparast, the Deputy for Treatment ...

The Anti-Drug Task Force advisor on women and family affairs reported on Wednesday March 5 that 55 percent of female drug addicts are married. IRNA reports that Zahra Bonyanian told a meeting of the Anti-Drug Force: These women have been forced into addiction because their spouses wanted to prevent them from getting a divorce. A husbands drug addiction ...

Drug addictionis widespread across Iran.It plaguespopulations of all ages, from drivers to bazaar vendors to government employees and evencollege students.Various government policies have been tried to address thematter butso far have failed tolowerthe numbers of addicts. A large share of these failures isdue to faulty perspective and policies in confronting ...

THE Islamic Republic has always had its addicts. Its long border with Afghanistan, the worlds biggest opium producer, and the Islamic stigma against drinking alcohol mean that opium and its derivatives are cheap, strong and readily available. An official youth unemployment rate of 28% and inflation running at 42% a year, both aggravated by American ...