TruemorsSarab village resident Jan Begum pauses between hits while smoking opium in her home in the Badakhshan province of Afghanistan. "I've been smoking opium for 18 years," said Begum who sent her 14-year-old son out to work for the drug dealers to help pay for the narcotic. In dozens of mountain hamlets in this remote corner of Afghanistan, opium addiction has become so entrenched that whole families are addicts. -JULIE JACOBSON, AP
NATO in the Afghan War
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