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Opium Bride Research Paper

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The practice of turning young girls into ‘opium brides’ in the middle east is horrible and must be stopped. The poverty that many farmers are forced to deal with is so extreme that they must turn to growing drugs, and selling their daughters into marriage. Sayed Shah, an opium farmer from Afghanistan, describes his bleak situation by saying, “I never imagined I'd have to pay for growing opium by giving up my daughter” (1). In many cases, young girls are sold is an opium bride, but because they are too young to marry they are used as slaves until they can be married. This practice is so horrible that it causes many opium brides to commit suicide. Gul Ghoti, an opium bride from Afghanistan, says that she personally knew two girls who

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