Afghanistan Drug Addiction

Javed, an Afghan opium addict, injects another addict with heroin inside the bombed-out ruins of the former Russian Cultural Center on the day that he checked himself into the Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 5, 2009.

An opium dealer, top, hands Javed, an Afghan opium addict, drugs in the terrace of the bombed-out ruins of the former Russian Cultural Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 4, 2009.

A man sits in a room of the abandoned Russian Cultural Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 29, 2009.

A man inhales heroin in the abandoned Russian Cultural Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2009.

A man smokes in a room of the abandoned Russian Cultural Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 29, 2009. The former cultural center is inhabited by drug users, despite being badly damaged by war.

A man jumps out of a window at the abandoned Russian Cultural Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2009.

Men inhale heroin in the abandoned Russian Cultural Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2009.

A man smokes in a room of the abandoned Russian cultural center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2009.

A man sleeps in the abandoned Russian Cultural Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2009.

A man sleeps in the abandoned Russian cultural center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 29, 2009.

Men talk in a room of the abandoned Russian cultural center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 29, 2009. There are two million drug users in the country with at least 50-60,000 drug addicts in Kabul alone.

Men inject themselves with a mixture of heroin and prescription pain medication in the abandoned Russian Cultural Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 29, 2009.

A drug addict lies on the floor of the abandoned Russian Cultural Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2009.

Men inject themselves with a mixture of heroin and prescription pain medication in the abandoned Russian Cultural Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 29, 2009.

A patient at the Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Center in Kabul, Afghanistan meets his children after they came to visit him on Oct. 10, 2009.

Javed, left, a recovering drug addict, drinks tea as other inmates look on inside the Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 9, 2009.

A man prepares a mixture of heroin and prescription pain medication in an abandoned Russian Cultural Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 29, 2009.

A patient at the Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Center in Kabul, Afghanistan is shown working out on Oct. 5, 2009.

Garbage litters the floor of the abandoned Russian cultural center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 29, 2009.

A man injects himself with a mixture of heroin and a prescription pain medication in the abandoned Russian Cultural Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 29, 2009.