| Ali Hashemi, the head of Iran’s counternarcotics agency, said that there are 2 million drug addicts in the country, contradicting an earlier figure of 2.7 million, though he admitted the number is imprecise. .... He said the country hopes to maintain the figure at 2 million over the next decade, the daily added. .... between 25 and 30 percent of Iranians suffer from "psychological illnesses" and 6 percent have "acute depression," but only 1 percent receive any treatment. ... 2-3 percent of Iranians are schizophrenics, while depression, stress, obsession, sexual problems, and sleeplessness are far more prevalent. |