{"id":7626,"date":"2023-10-19T18:57:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T14:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/?p=7626"},"modified":"2023-12-23T19:00:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T14:30:14","slug":"one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"One Million Drug Addicts, Including Women and Children in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Roza Otunbayeva, the head of the United Nations Office of the Deputy Mission in Afghanistan, revealed in an interview with the United Nations news department that an estimated 5 to 8 million Afghans are grappling with drug addiction.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The United Nations Special Representative in Afghanistan emphasized that among these individuals, one million are women and children. He highlighted that poverty and limited access to treatment methods serve as the primary drivers of drug addiction within the Afghan population.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Furthermore, he explained that a significant portion of these addicts are female carpet weavers who turn to drugs to cope with sleep deprivation and escape the monotonous and strenuous nature of their work.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In addition, men frequently resort to opium as a stimulant to endure long working days, gradually falling into the grip of drug addiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roza Otunbayeva, the head of the United Nations Office of the Deputy Mission in Afghanistan, revealed in an interview with the United Nations news department that an estimated 5 to 8 million Afghans are grappling with drug addiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_mat_hreflang_tags":[],"addvideo":"","video_duration":"","farsit":"","target":"0","top_stories":"1","top":"0"},"categories":[11,2,9],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-7626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents","category-afghanistan","category-social","tag-afghanistan"],"acf":{"myctype":"change","target":false,"top_stories":true,"top":false,"farsit":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>One Million Drug Addicts, Including Women and Children in Afghanistan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Roza Otunbayeva, the head of the United Nations Office of the Deputy Mission in Afghanistan, revealed in an interview with the United Nations news\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"One Million Drug Addicts, Including Women and Children in Afghanistan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Roza Otunbayeva, the head of the United Nations Office of the Deputy Mission in Afghanistan, revealed in an interview with the United Nations news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ariana News Agency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-10-19T14:27:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-23T14:30:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/\u0645\u0639\u062a\u0627\u062f.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"397\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2a55fc1759fcc9a9cf7b75da257d8734\"},\"headline\":\"One Million Drug Addicts, Including Women and Children in Afghanistan\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-19T14:27:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-23T14:30:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":142,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/media.ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/2023\\\/12\\\/\u0645\u0639\u062a\u0627\u062f.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Afghanistan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Accidents\",\"Afghanistan\",\"Social\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\\\/\",\"name\":\"One Million Drug Addicts, Including Women and Children in Afghanistan\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/media.ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/2023\\\/12\\\/\u0645\u0639\u062a\u0627\u062f.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-19T14:27:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-23T14:30:14+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2a55fc1759fcc9a9cf7b75da257d8734\"},\"description\":\"Roza Otunbayeva, the head of the United Nations Office of the Deputy Mission in Afghanistan, revealed in an interview with the United Nations news\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/media.ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/2023\\\/12\\\/\u0645\u0639\u062a\u0627\u062f.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/media.ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/2023\\\/12\\\/\u0645\u0639\u062a\u0627\u062f.jpg\",\"width\":600,\"height\":397},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"One Million Drug Addicts, Including Women and Children in Afghanistan\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ariana News Agency\",\"description\":\"Afghanistan News - Breaking News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2a55fc1759fcc9a9cf7b75da257d8734\",\"name\":\"Admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/621162a72ad45d45b191510a866bb6bc3c1f2361186666783d0f69b77edbaa2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/621162a72ad45d45b191510a866bb6bc3c1f2361186666783d0f69b77edbaa2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/621162a72ad45d45b191510a866bb6bc3c1f2361186666783d0f69b77edbaa2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Admin\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"One Million Drug Addicts, Including Women and Children in Afghanistan","description":"Roza Otunbayeva, the head of the United Nations Office of the Deputy Mission in Afghanistan, revealed in an interview with the United Nations news","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"One Million Drug Addicts, Including Women and Children in Afghanistan","og_description":"Roza Otunbayeva, the head of the United Nations Office of the Deputy Mission in Afghanistan, revealed in an interview with the United Nations news","og_url":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\/","og_site_name":"Ariana News Agency","article_published_time":"2023-10-19T14:27:29+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-12-23T14:30:14+00:00","og_image":[{"width":600,"height":397,"url":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/\u0645\u0639\u062a\u0627\u062f.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Admin","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\/"},"author":{"name":"Admin","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2a55fc1759fcc9a9cf7b75da257d8734"},"headline":"One Million Drug Addicts, Including Women and Children in Afghanistan","datePublished":"2023-10-19T14:27:29+00:00","dateModified":"2023-12-23T14:30:14+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\/"},"wordCount":142,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/media.ariananews.co\/en\/2023\/12\/\u0645\u0639\u062a\u0627\u062f.jpg","keywords":["Afghanistan"],"articleSection":["Accidents","Afghanistan","Social"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\/","url":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\/","name":"One Million Drug Addicts, Including Women and Children in Afghanistan","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/media.ariananews.co\/en\/2023\/12\/\u0645\u0639\u062a\u0627\u062f.jpg","datePublished":"2023-10-19T14:27:29+00:00","dateModified":"2023-12-23T14:30:14+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2a55fc1759fcc9a9cf7b75da257d8734"},"description":"Roza Otunbayeva, the head of the United Nations Office of the Deputy Mission in Afghanistan, revealed in an interview with the United Nations news","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/media.ariananews.co\/en\/2023\/12\/\u0645\u0639\u062a\u0627\u062f.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/media.ariananews.co\/en\/2023\/12\/\u0645\u0639\u062a\u0627\u062f.jpg","width":600,"height":397},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/one-million-drug-addicts-including-women-and-children-in-afghanistan\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"One Million Drug Addicts, Including Women and Children in Afghanistan"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/","name":"Ariana News Agency","description":"Afghanistan News - Breaking News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2a55fc1759fcc9a9cf7b75da257d8734","name":"Admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/621162a72ad45d45b191510a866bb6bc3c1f2361186666783d0f69b77edbaa2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/621162a72ad45d45b191510a866bb6bc3c1f2361186666783d0f69b77edbaa2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/621162a72ad45d45b191510a866bb6bc3c1f2361186666783d0f69b77edbaa2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Admin"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7629,"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions\/7629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/media\/7628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}