habshi

It gives them the confidence that they can survive the
withdrawl symptoms . Works very well in Singapore

excerpt
the-times.com
World News

August 29, 2003

Kabul’s hard way to beat heroin
By Anthony Loyd

FULL cavity search, shaved head and prison-style uniform: day one at
Kabul’s Nejat drug rehabilitation centre is startlingly different from
the experience of any Westerner embarking on an attempt to break a
heroin habit.
Day two is hardly better, as patients in the ten-bed clinic in the
west of the Afghan capital begin to tough out withdrawal without
recourse to heroin substitutes favoured by Western rehab methods.

Set up in June last year in response to the increasing number of
addicts in the city, the non-governmental clinic boasts a high success
rate however, and, once they have passed through the worst of cold
turkey, patients say that they find their month-long residential
course a kinder environment than life on the streets. “I feel better
already,” Muhammad Omayoon Rahimi, 40, a former Mujahidin fighter two
weeks into care, said. “We are fed well, three times a day, and people
are kind to us.”

Mr Rahimi began smoking heroin, the favoured method of use in
Afghanistan, in 1992, to forget the loss of his family home in
fighting and to combat hunger in the absence of rations