Oprah - Iraqi Women and Children and Valium

I had posted about Iraqi women and children taking Valium in an earlier post. Commenters at XX has mentioned that Oprah had recently covered the issue. At the Oprah Winfrey Show's web site there is the story of one Iraqi woman who had taken Valium. She mentioned that a bottle, sold without prescription, costs only 20 cents. She also said that "the constant state of fear is driving more and more women to the highly addictive drug."

Edward at Obsidian Wings discussed the Oprah show, copying information about it gleaned from Kos.

Zainab Salbi testified before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus about the living conditions in Iraq. Salbi mentioned that "Evanne, who was married to Sabah, her late husband, for only a year and a half, has only anger in her voice. She tells me she takes four Valium pills a day, “so I can get numb,” she says. The fact that her late father hated Saddam Hussain and was waiting excitedly for the end of his regime does not matter much to her now."