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NCRI – Prisons in Iran are becoming ‘drug addiction camps’ with the average age of abusers now below 20, according to reports from inside the regime.<\/p>\n

Prisons in Qezel-hesar and Kahrizak have the highest drug abuse figures, with the commonest drugs taken by inmates being methamphetamines like ‘glass’, crack and hallucination pills.<\/p>\n

Prisoners have easy access to illicit substances, which are brought into prisons by wardens and distributed by inmate gangs.<\/p>\n

According to some studies, 85 per cent of youths now have easy access to drugs.<\/p>\n

Drugs are also now more common within prisons than in society, meaning inmates are more likely to be freed as addicts, the reports said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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