An estimated 8 percent of people in Afghanistan suffer from drug addiction – and increasingly, many are children.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime says that half of the parents who use drugs in Afghanistan also give them to their children.
With a crumbling economy and insufficient aid - rehabilitation centres are now running out of the medicines they need to treat them.
Al Jazeera's Osama Bin Javaid reports from Kabul.
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