Inside one of Kabul’s largest drug rehabilitation centres | Witness Documentary

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Inside one of Kabul’s largest drug rehabilitation centres | Witness Documentary


Afghanistan has one of the world’s highest drug addiction rates. According to the Taliban, there are an estimated four million drug addicts across the country.

Babrak, a former mujahideen fighter, used to be one of them. Now, he is committed to supporting addicts to detox in one of the capital’s under-resourced drug rehabilitation…

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  1. The problem is that this man is not a social worker he doesn’t work for society sadly he’s an angel ignorant he’s actually out an angel of ignorance. The way he is working creates trauma and it’s demeaning, He’s working for the government but he has never in his life read about addiction. Life is an illusion it’s better to attack for the property then to attack the people. Those guys are never gonna be rehabilitated, It’s gonna take decades, Those kinds of treatment create drama and drama create addiction. We are all victims of our own stupidity an ego

  2. They must have skipped the detoxing part I didn't see anyone out of at least 100 that were going through withdrawals?

    But they all looked like they needed a shower, new clothing, footwear, a roof over their heads, nutritional food and some help getting out of their homeless situation!

    But I didn't see anyone from the time they picked them all up until the end that was suffering from a drug addiction and going through withdrawals and detoxing??????????

  3. A big shout out to the social worker gentleman KAKA Babrak , he is The Shining Light in that Darkness .And , a separate shout out to Al Jazeera , which showed exactly what it is , Most of documentaries are biased not this one though

  4. The country was invaded by the erstwhile USSR in the 80s and the Muhajedins made sure it was their biggest and most expensive mistakes while Hollywood managed to squueze some part of Rambo into it.
    The drug addiction so rampant in the country will not be solved among the current generation of addicts. These present addicts will serve as an example for the coming generation to examplify just how useless drug addiction really is.
    And the cure will begin there.
    The people who have grown rich and powerful from these drugs will age while their descendants will invest their ill gotten gains on more legal industries.
    The country would need to introduce cash crops to quickly replace poppies.

  5. Drug addicts are the same all over the world. Blaming everything and everybody and only thinking about themselves. Society has to be protected from them. Good they lock them up and force them in Afghanistan. Every country should help their own drug addicts. Why should others have to pay for them.

  6. this isn't treatment, ive gone thru heroin and methadone withdrawal granted you wont get anything to help you once coming off of methadone but they dont have a program there, locking you in a room isn't the right thing to do

  7. Ill go out on a limb judging their manners and injuries i wouldnt say its a strech that many of these men were former daesh or were with the afgan army before the invasion. Daesh had many of its fighters hooked on drugs while the former afgan soldiers alike many Iraqi soldiers turned to extremisim and drugs after the fall. Men like us who just had the bad luck to be born in that country, rest assured if china came by and destroyed our country along with killing many americans and anyone in power be it politics or military would be out of jobs…..out of meaning in their lives. Guys who dedicated their lives to a country only to have it taken and become just like a regular man on the street…if not worse.

  8. This is the grim reality that the world is facing,, I've been watching these documentaries ,it's not only happening in the states but all over the world,, I feel for these people, cause I was them,,