In jails of Punjab, barracks of drug
addicts have been renamed as recovery centres.
Dr Huda said 26 per cent of drug
addicts are affected by other
addicted family members, according to a study Ownak conducted among 257 Emirati drug
addicts at Dubai Central Jail.
The study found that "Phone
Addicts" spend 28% of their time driving actively ignoring the road.
Substance
addicts create "neurochemical numbness" by using various chemicals.
The district nazim has said that the treatment of the ice drug
addicts is continued in the centre.
He said that during his visit to the centre he had ordered that the young
addicts should be given separate rooms so that they did not mingle with chronic
addicts and criminals.
Poverty, family problems, social misconceptions and easy access to drugs are one of the root causes of the increase in the number of
addicts in the country, especially Herat province.
He spoke after donating cooler boxes, buckets, uniform for
addicts' children, wheelbarrows, rakes among other tools of trade to 20 reforming
addicts at Hongera in Kisauni.
A single mistake of tasting drug like the forbidden fruit of heaven takes the
addict to a level of no-recovery - no way to come back to real world.
Frequency of IA was reported as 85% (n=289), with intensities of IA as 65.6% (n=223) minimal
addicts, 18.5% (n=63) moderate
addicts and 0.9% (n=3) severe
addicts.
'It is very difficult for drug
addicts because most of them do not pay much attention [to their treatment].
Most of the upper class people are
addicted of drugs and use drugs as fashion and many people of lower class are also
addicted for it.