NCRI – The Vice President in the Cabinet of Hassan Rouhani in the Section of Women and Family Affairs, Shahindokht Molaverdi expressed her concern regarding women and family affairs as well as the rise of drug addiction among the Iranian women. She stated that 9% of addicts are of women in Iran.
As Khabaronline News Agency reported, Shahindokht Molaverdi in the National Congress of Youth Affairs referred to the reduction age of drug use in Iran and said:”It is alarming that the patterns of drug use have transformed from traditional drugs to industrial and psychotropic substances among the girls in particular.”
Molaverdi stated that the levels of addiction have increased among girls since 2012. Nevertheless, this trend was declining from 2006 till 2012. She noted that the figure of social destruction in the country is rising. The ratio of married women has dropped 10.5% in the country from 1986 till 2011. She then stressed that a considerable amount of women who live on the outskirts of cities are prone to harms.
According to the official figures from the Office of Research and Education of anti-drug Headquarters, the addiction of women has increased 4 times for the past 10 years.
The former Director General of the Office of Addiction Prevention and Treatment affiliated with the Welfare Organization of Iran, Farid Baratisadeh confirmed the increasing figure of addiction among women and stipulated that this rise was not sudden.
The Minister of Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare stated that addiction among women is one of the serious issues in Iran and the prevalence of addiction among women has reached from 4 % to 10%.
A member the regime’s parliament, Rasoul Khezri, had earlier announced that the number of addicts in Iran reached to 10 millions in 2013 at a minimum. The Head of the Office of Addiction, Mental and Social Health of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran, Ahmad Hajebi estimated that there are about 2 million addicts in Iran.
