Hundreds of drug addicts have recovered in the Jaghara Treatment Centre in Afghanistan’s Herat province since its establishment eight years ago. In addition to giving medicines to the patients, the treatment centre also plays music and arranges a party twice every day.

“The tune of music and melodies in the treatment centre has inspired me to forget smoking drugs, and after recovery I play music for others in the centre to get cured,” Ibrahim Hamraz, a former addict, said. Hamraz, 43, who used to smoke illicit drugs including heroin for 23 years, said he resorted to hashish and then to heroin when he was 20.