Islamabad, Feb 28 (IANS) Pakistan is grappling with a worsening crisis of youth drug abuse and rising suicide rates, according to local media reports citing a 2025 systematic review of rehabilitation cases. The study found that heroin accounts for 48 per cent of substance abuse cases among young users, while cannabis makes up 28 per cent, underscoring the alarming scale and severity of addiction among the country’s youth population.According to the study, thirty-five per cent began using drugs…
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Islamabad, Feb 1 (IANS) Drug abuse has been consistently undermining Pakistan’s socioeconomic structure and posing one of the biggest challenges faced by the country, as per reports. Nearly 6.7 million people in Pakistan abuse controlled drugs, with cannabis being the most commonly used substance and heroin addiction affecting hundreds of thousands of people in the country, according to the most recent official estimates and statistics of the United Nations.As a result, cannabis, opioids, cocain…
Washington, Jan 9 (IANS) A New Jersey physician has been charged in a sweeping 58-count federal indictment accusing him of running an opioid “pill mill,” exchanging prescriptions for sexual favors, and defrauding the state’s Medicaid program over several years, US prosecutors have said.Ritesh Kalra, 52, of Secaucus City in New Jersey, was indicted on charges that include unlawful distribution of opioids, maintaining a drug-involved premises, and health care fraud. Kalra, an internist, appe…