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(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

In this Oct. 7, 2009 photo, Rafi, an Afghan opium addict, who has lost his mental balance, is chained to the wall at the Mia Ali Baba Shrine, on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. The shrine is used as a rehabilitation center where the patients are brought by their family and chained for 40 days or until they recover from their addiction. The U.S. announced Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 that it is giving US$38.7 million to 27 Afghan provinces that either reduced poppy cultivation by more than 10 percent or became poppy free this year.