120 drug-addicted babies are born and die every month in the ruins of Tehran
According to ISNA, the Iranian Students' News Agency, an average of 120 addicted babies are born every month in the ruins of Tehran alone, most of whom die in the first few days after birth as a result of addiction, are sold, or suffer the fate of their sleeping mothers.
According to ISNA, these babies born in marginalized areas are the result of a combination of marginalization, sleeping rough, poverty, and widespread addiction that increasingly affects women and children in the country. The number of marginalized people in Iran currently stands at 15 million.
ISNA has written that there is no determination or mechanism to treat addicted newborns and prevent pregnancies in women addicted to sleeping pills in Iran, and a number of these newborns, who according to ISNA do not even have the ability to cry or drink, die in the corners of government hospitals in the absence of anyone and lack of proper treatment.
Social activist Sharmin Maimandinejad told ISNA: While 120 addicted babies are born in the ruins of Tehran every month, the number of child laborers in Iran who are victims of various injuries and infectious diseases reaches two million.
The social activist added that the Iranian authorities' only solution to the problem of drug addiction is to hang drug dealers: those who themselves resort to such criminal activities due to poverty and unemployment, and ultimately due to the economic inefficiency of the entire system.
In a warning report to the Supreme Leader about Iran’s social ills, especially the problem of addiction, the Deputy Minister of the Interior of the Islamic Republic has explicitly described the government of the country as ineffective in combating addiction. According to experts, thousands of so-called addiction treatment centers in Iran have themselves become centers for the distribution of opium and the spread of addiction, and sometimes infectious diseases such as AIDS.
Source: rfi
