Those were common purposes of the abuse of Opium. Now lets go into further detail about extra abuses for the use of it. Another part of the poor people in Afghanistan that barely have money to even buy food. To feed 9 members in their family, be poor, no money for food, hungry family; they use Opium as a solution. Opium seems to be easier to afford and helps their problem from starving and storing food longer. One family was being interviewed, this is the family with 9 members. They have barely any money. The small amount of money they did have they used a 1 foot piece of bread and to feed 9 in a week. The mom said they all are hungry but to store food longer and eat tiny bits of the bread they use Opium to ease the hunger pain. Opium takes the pain away and makes them feel full so they went ahead and gave it to their kids.