Iran: Drugs are more common among women in Iran

NCRI, 3 Oct 2013 – Drug addiction is one of the biggest challenge that the Iranian society has seen facing since the mullahs role has begun in Iran. Every year the number of drug addicts increases with women having more tendency to become an addict.
The deputy commander of the anti-drug police in North Khorasan said: “Women have a higher tendency to use drugs than men; and women become longer addicts than men.”
The increase usage of hallucination pills without prescriptions is also higher among women than men.
This official pointed out to the decline of age in drug abuse and said: “The average age that women go on drugs in our country is 27; which is six years younger than men.”
The use of industrial drugs has replaced traditional drugs and the victims after 5 years become among the most dangerous drug addicts in the country.
The head of the health organization in the province of Qom said that based on the calculated statistics, 85 per cent return to drugs after they undergo treatment.
An official in the anti-drug police force claimed that women and girls have a higher tendency to use opium, glass and crack among all other drugs.
Babak Dinparast added that the use of heroine is also very common among women and girls because it is very easy to access in the black market.
Commission member Rasoul Khazari said: “The number of female addicts has doubled and the addiction age has also dropped. While inflation has struck all goods, the price of (methamphetamine) ‘glass’ has fallen sharply.
Hamid Saremi, the general director of the research and education staff at IDHC, also reported this month that of the 45 per cent addicted women under the age of 30, 25 per cent of those are between the ages of 20 and 30, and half are between 15 and 19.
Unfortunately drug abuse is opening its way and grasping students from elementary to university.
Today, industrial drugs have become a threat for students at college and high school or under, which has become one of the main problems of the society, stated the social commanding deputy of Khuzestan military.
“Drug addiction can be a threat for all ages. Drugs are even being sold as chewing gums in the market.”
There are now at least ten million drug addicts in Iran – or more than one in eight of the entire population, the regime’s parliamentary Health Commission has admitted.