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Methamphetamine Use Soars In Iran As Lifestyles Speed Up
[Ynet] In less than a decade, meth use has skyrocketed in Iran; 345,000 Iranians are considered addicts according to official statistics.
Corruption and drug use as venality and despair replace the idealism of revolution. Counterrevolution comes next in the traditional cycle...
Women in headscarves and men in tatty clothes puff on a glass pipe as smoke swirls around their faces. The pictures published by Iranian media and blogs in recent months are a sign of a new drug epidemic: shishe, or methamphetamine.

Shishe means "glass" in Farsi, a reference to the appearance of the drug in some of its purest forms.

Posted by: trailing wife 2014-12-09
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