A recent AP report said eight American soldiers in Afghanistan were confirmed to have died of drug abuses in 2010 and 2011.

This was disclosed when the U.S. Army Command in Afghanistan investigated 56 American soldiers on the suspicion of drug processing and use.

The number of the soldiers who were tested positive for heroine increased to 116 in fiscal 2010 from 10 in fiscal 2002.

During more than a decade of the U.S. occupation, opium cultivation and drug smuggling have run rampant in Afghanistan, degrading the country to a drug-producer.

That is not the sole major cause of drug addicts increasing among the American soldiers.

The soldiers being hurled to an "anti-terror war" in Afghanistan suffer from extreme uneasiness and fear day in, day out.

The U.S. death toll from the attacks by the resistance forces that have become unabated since the beginning of the war stands at more than 1 850.

Melancholy and fear have become common diseases among the American soldiers there.

The U.S. military bases are prescribing a drug as medicine to treat the disease which is only giving rise to the number of drug addicts.

Now the U.S. soldiers widely use the drug calling it "Afghani dip".

Afghanistan is turning into a huge grave of the drug-addicted U.S. troops.

This is natural for the U.S. to face such a result as it has defied the unanimous demand of the international community for an immediate stop to the reckless war of aggression and withdrawal of its troops.