Afghanistan – D Addicts
The Afghan village of Sarab: open the door to the house of Islam Bega, and the thick smoke opium breaks out into the cold mountain air, like steam from the bath. It’s only 8 am, but a family of six people – including year-old boy – had already gathered around the opium pipe. 65-year-old Running inhales and exhales smoke. He handed the phone to his wife. That sends her daughter. Daughter blows smoke opium in the child’s mouth. Child rolls his eyes. Their faces gaunt, his hair matted. From them, it stinks. In dozens of mountain villages of this remote corner of Afghanistan’s opium addiction was so powerful that the whole family – from infants to the elderly – have become drug addicts. This tendency to drug goes from house to house, affecting entire communities, cut off from the world’s glacial rivers. Now, at least half the population Sarabah (which amounts to 1 850 people) are drug addicts.
A resident of the village of Sarab, opium addict Islam Beg heats a few grams of opium during the morning “procedures” smoking. Photo taken in Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan on July 13. “I have no life. I do not have anything. All spent on opium “- says Race, whose relatives are also drug addicts.
Villagers Sarab go on a dirty track from one part of the village to another. This photo was taken in the Afghan province of Badakhshan, July 12. Location at a height of 2,5 km sea level, and that this is the last village up the river valley, make the journey on muddy roads to the doctors rather impeded. “Opium – our doctor,” – said the villager using opium for pain relief.
A resident of the village of Sarab, opium addict Islam Beg says about their living conditions, after a morning of smoking opium picture was taken in Badakhshan Province, on July 13
A resident of the village of Sarab, Jan Begum took a break between smoking opium in his home in the Afghan province of Badakhshan. “I smoke opium for 18 years”, – says Begum, who sent his 14-year-old son to work on the Drug Dealer, that the family could pay for drugs.
A resident of the village of Sarab, Begum Jan addict smokes opium. “Smoking helps from my asthma”, – says Begum, who has no money, no transport to go to the doctor.
The women of the family of Islam warns smoke opium. This photo was taken in the village of Sarab, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan July 13.
A resident of the village of Sarab, opium addict Islam Beg (center) offers a pipe of opium to his grandson during a morning smoke.
A bit of burnt opium scattered on a metal tray with a candle and matches, which Jan Begum from the village of Sarab used to heat the drug.
A resident of the village of Sarab, opium addict Islam Running shoes to go to work in a potato field after a morning of smoking opium in the province of Badakhshan, Afgnistan. “I sold my land. And now I work on it. I sold their chickens and cows “, – says Race, whose family is also dependent on opium.
