Heroin for Breakfast ; Exclusive Dateline Kabul: Part 2 of Our Compelling Series She's 11, He's 14. They're Among 60,000 Child Drug Addicts in Afghanistan ... So Much for the West's Boast They'd Raze the Poppy Fields

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IT is early morning in Kabul and two scrawny children sit hunched together on the mud floor of their shack, waiting for their mother to serve breakfast.

But here in the slums of the Afghan capital, there is no choice of cereals or toast and marmalade.

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Heroin for Breakfast ; Exclusive Dateline Kabul: Part 2 of Our Compelling Series She's 11, He's 14. They're Among 60,000 Child Drug Addicts in Afghanistan ... So Much for the West's Boast They'd Raze the Poppy Fields

There is only heroin.

Using hollow radio antennas as makeshift pipes, 11-year-old Golpari and her brother Zaher, 14, inhale the melted brown liquid from the bowl in front of them. Sitting in a corner, their widowed mother Sabera inhales and also floats off into oblivion.

"Smoking heroin is no big thing," says Golpari, who...

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