Drug user numbers rise by 1,000 per year: official
The number of registered drug addicts increases by 1,000 in Azerbaijan annually, Deputy Health Minister Elsevar Agayev has said.
Agayev told an event, held under the slogan ``Say No to Drugs``, that more than 26,700 drug addicts have been officially registered in Azerbaijan. About 80 percent of them inject drugs. Moreover, there are thousands of unregistered drug addicts.
Araz Aliguliyev, head of the working group of the state body on combating drug abuse and drug trafficking, stressed that 80 percent of registered drug addicts are users of heavy drugs.
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