![IRAN An Iranian drug addict injects himself with heroin near the Zeytoun (olive) drug rehabilitation center in south Tehran February 23, 2004. The Zeytoun center is run by a former addict called 'Forouhar' who weaned himself off drugs in the [United States]. Senior police officers have recently estimated that the Islamic Republic has some two million addicts and their forces struggle to contend with huge consignments of drugs smuggled over the porous border with [Afghanistan].
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Iran not doing enough to address drug addiction
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