Drug addiction plights Pakistan
Pakistan is struggling with the highest number of drug addicts in the world, according to medical authorities there. Officials have said there are at least five million people using heroin, opiates, or other mind altering substances across the country. The United Nations office on drugs and crime estimates around 40 per cent of Afghanistan’s heroin and morphine goes through Pakistan, and some of that is used by the more than 600000 Pakistani opiate abusers. Nai Zindagi, or New Life in English, is the country’s biggest rehabilitation programme. Every day it helps around 22000 addicts across Pakistan. It gives clean needles to stop the spread of HIV, advises on health issues and gives addicts the chance of getting clean. Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher reports from Bara koh in Pakistan.
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The Harsh Reality of Drug Addiction richardmclaughlin007 — January 18, 2009 — after 11 months of sobriety from drug addiction, in 7 short days this man hits the depths of despair and insanity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuNWCPDrJsM
This video was shot in Vancouvers downtown eastside by the narrator it is quite extreme, It shows how common place and and readily available drugs are and how people can succomb to a extreme physical reaction from lack of sleep, nutrition and dehydration. This video was made for many different reasons, one being educational the other as mentioned earlier it’s common place here in Vancouver, in any other city or town in North America this man would have recieved immediate medical attention but here in Vancouver both the police and ambulance just drive by. If you do not belive me come on down and see our little human circus slash “HARM REDUCTION EXPERIMENT”
This man was spotted two hours later sleeping on a concrete curb as his pillow.
Both the narrator and producer of this video have had spent many years struggling with addiction and have spent hard time in Vancouvers “NOTORIOUS” downtown eastside.
Today they have escaped and are clean and sober and now dedicate there lives to those who still suffer from “THE HARSH REALITY OF ADDICTION”