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Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:03 am Post subject: Iran: Drug users 4 Million 6% of the Total Population |
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Iran: Drug usage soars into the millions
Sat. 23 Apr 2005
Source:
Iran Focus
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1922
Tehran, Apr. 23 – There are presently four million drug addicts in Iran, according to a state-run news agency. The news agency also said that there are more than 2.5 million drug users, without offering much detail.
“According to the latest official survey in the country, the number of drug addicts in Iran stands at four million, with more than 2.5 million current users”, it said.
Drug smuggling and sales in Iran was a 10 billion dollar market last year, nearly three quarters of the total revenue from its oil market during the same period, according to the same official survey.
Even so, the latest government statistics are believed by many Iran experts to be far short of the actual numbers of drug addicts.
Previous estimates have put the total number of illegal-drug users in Iran at more than seven million.
On April 7, Akbar Alami, a member of Iran’s Majlis (parliament) from Tabriz (northwest Iran), went public and revealed that the actual number of drug users in Iran stood at 11 million.
Iran’s government is under close scrutiny for the level of narcotics found in Iranian cities. Many experts fear that certain departments and officials within the Iranian regime are overseeing foreign narcotics imports.
In January a similar report was released which showed that one out of every seventeen people in Iran’s 70-million-population was using illegal drugs regularly.
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Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:10 am Post subject: Drug use in Iran hits new high |
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Drug use in Iran hits new high
(AFP)
23 April 2005
Source: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2005/April/middleeast_April605.xml§ion=middleeast&col=
TEHERAN - Some four million Iranians, or nearly six percent of the total population, can be classed as drug users, a government newspaper reported on Saturday.
Quoting “official surveys”, the Iran newspaper said that out of the total number of narcotics users, some 2.5 million people were actual addicts. The report gave no further details.
Iran sits on a major trafficking route for heroin, opium, morphine and cannabis from Afghanistan, and in the past decade has experienced an explosion of narcotics use. In the past, official and unofficial estimates have put the number of drug users at around two million.
The latest report gave no details on the new statistics, including the number of estimated intravenous drug users. Previous figures have put drug injectors at around a quarter of a million people. |
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