[Ynet] In less than a decade, meth use has skyrocketed in Iran; 345,000 Iranians are considered addicts according to official statistics.
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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.
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