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In this Dec. 25, 2016 photo, an Afghan health worker, left, escorts a drug addict during a campaign to help drug users get care and counseling, in Kabul, Afghanistan. A small group of former addicts is trying to help drug users in Afghanistan, a country with one of the highest rates of addiction in the world. Thousands can be found in the streets of the capital, Kabul, sleeping under bridges, as the government struggles to provide services and rein in cultivation of poppies that produce opium and heroin. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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In this Jan. 4, 2017 photo, Dr. Mohammad Zubair Harooni, a HIV program officer with the United Nation development Program (UNDP) in Afghanistan, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan. A small group of former addicts is trying to help drug users in Afghanistan, a country with one of the highest rates of addiction in the world. Thousands can be found in the streets of the capital, Kabul, sleeping under bridges, as the government struggles to provide services and rein in cultivation of poppies that produce opium and heroin. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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In this Dec. 21, 2016, photo, an Afghan first aid nurse with Bridge Hope Health Organization (BHHO) dresses wounds of a drug addict in Kabul, Afghanistan. A small group of former addicts is trying to help drug users in Afghanistan, a country with one of the highest rates of addiction in the world. Thousands can be found in the streets of the capital, Kabul, sleeping under bridges, as the government struggles to provide services and rein in cultivation of poppies that produce opium and heroin. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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In this Dec. 21, 2016, photo, an Afghan first aid nurse with Bridge Hope Health Organization (BHHO) right, dresses the wounds of a drug addict in Kabul, Afghanistan. A small group of former addicts is trying to help drug users in Afghanistan, a country with one of the highest rates of addiction in the world. Thousands can be found in the streets of the capital, Kabul, sleeping under bridges, as the government struggles to provide services and rein in cultivation of poppies that produce opium and heroin. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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In this Dec. 25, 2016 photo, a barber shaves addicts after a campaign to help drug users at a rehabilitation center in Kabul, Afghanistan. A small group of former addicts is trying to help drug users in Afghanistan, a country with one of the highest rates of addiction in the world. Thousands can be found in the streets of the capital, Kabul, sleeping under bridges, as the government struggles to provide services and rein in cultivation of poppies that produce opium and heroin. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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In this Jan. 4, 2017, photo, a doctor, right, takes a HIV blood test for a drug addict during a campaign to help drug users get care and counseling, in Kabul, Afghanistan. A small group of former addicts is trying to help drug users in Afghanistan, a country with one of the highest rates of addiction in the world. Thousands can be found in the streets of the capital, Kabul, sleeping under bridges, as the government struggles to provide services and rein in cultivation of poppies that produce opium and heroin. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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In this Dec. 21, 2016 photo, Raheem Rejaey director of Bridge Hope Health Organization (BHHO) speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan. Raheem Rejaey was a drug addict for 17 years. He lived under bridges in Kabul or in the ruins of buildings. His clothes reeked. In his misery, he tried suicide several times, he said, once intentionally overdosing and lying unconscious in a street for two days, undiscovered. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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In this Dec. 25, 2016 photo, Afghan drug addicts wait for registration at a rehabilitation center during a campaign to help drug users in Kabul, Afghanistan. A small group of former addicts is trying to help drug users in Afghanistan, a country with one of the highest rates of addiction in the world. Thousands can be found in the streets of the capital, Kabul, sleeping under bridges, as the government struggles to provide services and rein in cultivation of poppies that produce opium and heroin. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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In this Dec. 21, 2016 photo, an Afghan first aid nurse with Bridge Hope Health Organization (BHHO) left, dresses wounds of a drug addict in Kabul, Afghanistan. A small group of former addicts is trying to help drug users in Afghanistan, a country with one of the highest rates of addiction in the world. Thousands can be found in the streets of the capital, Kabul, sleeping under bridges, as the government struggles to provide services and rein in cultivation of poppies that produce opium and heroin. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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In this Dec. 21, 2016 photo, an Afghan first aid nurse with Bridge Hope Health Organization (BHHO) left, helps dress wounds of drug addicts in Kabul, Afghanistan. A small group of former addicts is trying to help drug users in Afghanistan, a country with one of the highest rates of addiction in the world. Thousands can be found in the streets of the capital, Kabul, sleeping under bridges, as the government struggles to provide services and rein in cultivation of poppies that produce opium and heroin. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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In this Dec. 21, 2016, photo, An Afghan drug addict waits to receive first aid for his wounds from Bridge Hope Health Organization (BHHO) during a campaign to help drug users get care and counseling, in Kabul, Afghanistan. A small group of former addicts is trying to help drug users in Afghanistan, a country with one of the highest rates of addiction in the world. Thousands can be found in the streets of the capital, Kabul, sleeping under bridges, as the government struggles to provide services and rein in cultivation of poppies that produce opium and heroin. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2017 file photo, Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program for the Department of Water Resources, crosses a snow covered meadow after conducting the second manual snow survey of the season at at Phillips Station near Echo Summit, Calif. Water managers will once again manually measure California's snowpack, saying the state is on track for one of the wettest winters on record after five years of drought. The California Department of Water Resources will do the survey Wednesday, March 1, 2017, in the Sierra Nevada. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delivers his budget address Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Trenton, N.J. Christie unveiled his final budget proposal as governor. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie stands in the Statehouse as he delivers his budget address Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Trenton, N.J. Christie unveiled his final budget proposal as governor. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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FILE - In this May 29, 2013, file photo. former Cleveland Browns wide receiver Reggie Rucker chats after a news conference for Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown in Cleveland. Federal prosecutors say Rucker owes more than $110,000 for stealing from two charities, and they want to garnish his earnings from the NFL for restitution.Cleveland.com reports that could include his pension and any money he might receive from a nearly $1 billion class-action settlement that the NFL agreed to pay to athletes who suffered concussions. Players have months to submit claims in that settlement. Rucker’s attorney says the imprisoned 69-year-old intends to use settlement money as restitution. (AP Photo/David Richard, File)

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House minority Leader Nancy Pelosi reacts as President Donald J. Trump speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, to a joint session of Congress. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool Image via AP)

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First lady Melania Trump, sitting with Jessica Davis, Susan Oliver and Jenna Oliver, who lost loved ones to illegal immigrants, acknowledged applause at the start of President Trump’s speech on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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Participants in an anti-abortion rally hold signs and pray as they listen to a member of Christian clergy read from the Bible, in front of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, in Denver, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017. Anti-abortion activists emboldened by the new administration of President Donald Trump staged rallies around the country Saturday calling for the federal government to cut off payments to Planned Parenthood. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) (Associated Press)

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In this file photo, two dozen pro-life activists maintained a vigil in the rain outside of a Planned Parenthood facility in the District Tuesday, the first day of a planned national 40 Days for Life annual campaign during Lent, which will see activists stationed outside abortion clinics nationwide from now until Easter weekend. (Bradford Richardson/The Washington Times) **FILE**