Saturday, March 31, 2012

Insight: Lifting the veil on Afghanistan's female addicts

KABUL (Reuters) - Anita lifted the sky-blue burqa from her face, revealing glazed eyes and cracked lips from years of smoking opium, and touched her saggy belly, still round from giving birth to her seventh child a month ago. "I can't give breast milk to my baby," said the 32-year-old Anita, who like other women interviewed for this story, declined to give her full name. "I'm scared he'll get addicted She was huddled with other women at the U.N.
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Insight: Lifting the veil on Afghanistan's female addicts
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