Drug use is associated with increased vulnerabilities in many areas of life, resulting in adverse social and health consequences, such as co-occurring mental and physical disorders (including HIV, Hepatitis and other infectious diseases), drug-related deaths, unemployment, stigmatization, crime and violence. Furthermore, decades of conflict and instability have left many Afghans vulnerable to a wide range of mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) – common risk factors for the initiation of drug use and development of drug use disorders
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UNODC's Alternative Development (AD) Programme aims to encourage and assist communities in Afghanistan to move away from illicit crop cultivation and sale of poppy and support transition to licit crop cultivation and adoption of other on-farm, off-farm and non-farm income generation activities for a sustainable livelihood. The programme was initially designed in 2016 in accordance with the national strategies of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA), namely the Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS), National Drugs Control Strategy (NDCS), National Drug Action Plan (NDAP) 2015-19, and United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) Pillar-1 (Economic Development).
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