The Ministry of Counter narcotics, in cooperation with police, on Sunday picked 200 drug addicts from various areas in Kabul and handed them over to a NATO camp for treatment.
Mohammad Hanif Danish Yar, spokesman for the ministry, told a press conference that some of the addicts were taken to the Camp Qargha, formerly known as Camp Phoenix, voluntary and others by force from different areas of the 6th police district of Kabul.
Some of the addicts were not willing to be treated but later agreed after being nicely behaved. They were shifted to the Pul-i-Charkhi rehabilitation center in ambulances.
The Ministry of Counter narcotics has been also working to deal with the issue of increasing drug addicts by taking them to rehab centers, launching campaigns for general awareness.
A 2014 survey puts the population of drug addicts in Afghanistan at more than three million.
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