a The Center for Public Health and Human Rights , Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , Baltimore , MD , USA.
Glob Public Health. 2011;6(5):570-6. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2011.572080. Epub 2011 May 16.
Afghanistan has become the world's largest producer of illicit opiates. Opium and its derivative heroin are widespread substances of use, abuse and dependency in Central Asia. The region is currently undergoing expanding HIV epidemics driven largely by needle sharing among people who use drugs, in contexts where public health interventions to reduce the harms associated with substance use are limited by policy, law and legalistic and repressive approaches to drug users. Evidence-based approaches to drug treatment are lacking or limited in multiple states. Urgent reform is needed. The massive volumes of Afghan's illicit opiate exports are having serious impacts on the health of the region.
阿富汗已成为世界上最大的非法阿片剂生产国。鸦片及其衍生物海洛因在中亚广泛被使用、滥用和依赖。该地区目前正在经历艾滋病毒的不断蔓延，这主要是由于药物使用者之间共用针头所致，而在这些情况下，减少与药物使用相关的危害的公共卫生干预措施受到政策、法律以及对药物使用者的法律主义和压制性方法的限制。多个国家缺乏或有限制地使用循证药物治疗方法。急需进行改革。阿富汗非法阿片剂的大量出口对该地区的健康造成了严重影响。
