Pakistan’s Huge Drug Addiction Problem

Sometimes, it’s depressing to watch news or listen on the radio, even newspaper or search the net. It is because the news on drug addiction is never missing. In most cases, it is about the rise in number of users or the lives that have been lost due to it. It is also a common news that in many countries, their problem on drug addiction seems getting worse. Just like the news below wherein in Pakistan, the government is facing a huge and serious drug addiction problem. In cases like this, the need for drug addiction treatment is another problem that they need to tackle. With drug treatment centers, people can get help to get back on their feet. Click on to read more. Behind the tragicomic story of “Kamlesh” from India’s city of Bhopal, whose video went viral on Youtube last year after receiving millions of views, there lies a misery and plight of drug addicts and the parallel, rather regretful, lack of awareness and the required sensitivity that we as Pakistanis should attach to the issue of chronic drug addicts. From the perspective of many middle-class families, an addict at home is a source of dishonour, for lower-class families an economic burden and for the state, simply a symbol of incivility and uselessness. In the context of increasing death-rate due to drug-addiction, how is the gross abandonment of these people by the two major institutions — family and state — any different than the extended form of honour killing and mass murder respectively? In July 2015, Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) informed the Senate Standing Committee on Interior and Narcotics Control that an estimated of 700 people in Pakistan die every day due to drug-related problems, compared to terrorism-related activities that result in the loss of average 39 lives per day. Here is the irony. Both terrorism and drug-addiction-related problems in Pakistan are conveniently attributed as originating from our western neighbour, Afghanistan, which usually keeps us in a state of denial because both these problems are not home-grown, they are imported. Yet, Pakistan had to spend about Rs800 billion per year on the war on terror over the past 15 years largely from its own resources. 

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