. >> afghanistan is the world's number one producer of opium popeys, and it grows 90% of the world supplymany there are drug addicts but there is no treatment. one woman is single-handedly trying to reverse that trend. >> reporter: they are the forgotten ones, addict who is live in squalor, squalling in garbage and drug paraphernalia getting high. one woman brings the promise of hope. this is layla, the addicts call her mother. >> the government takes all the aid money that has poured into this country by the international communities and still does nothing, there is no place for these people. >> reporter: layla tries to find them a place. she runs a private shelter where she helped the addicts get clean. >> there aren't enough government 235,689 facilities tt addicted. >> reporter: today there are some lucky ones. she takes two to the hospital and plead for them to be admitted. doctors know her but this is the first time she has brought patients here. >> the smuggling of drugs is increasing and the number of drug users increase, too. >> reporter: she has brought two addicts to her modest