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It's easy for soldiers to score heroin in Afghanistan | Salon News

Simultaneously stressed and bored, U.S. soldiers are turning to the widely available drug for a quick escape.
It's easy for soldiers to score heroin in Afghanistan | Salon News: "Just outside the main gate to Bagram airfield, a U.S. military installation in Afghanistan, sits a series of small makeshift shops known by locals as the Bagram Bazaar. For Afghans, it is the place to buy American goods, but the stalls that make up the heart of the bazaar are also well known for what they provide American soldiers stationed at Bagram. Walking through the bazaar it takes less than 10 minutes for a vendor in his early 20s to step out and ask, 'You want whiskey?' 'No, heroin,' I tell him. He ushers me into his store with a smile. "

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