The document discusses drug addiction in Pakistan. It notes that drug addiction leads people to fail at work and following social rules, disturbs their social lives, and prevents them from being normal social beings. It also increases crime. The main causes of drug addiction in Pakistan are listed as lack of knowledge, easy availability of drugs, peer pressure, and poverty/unemployment. The health and social impacts of drug addiction are described such as weight loss, anxiety, and developing stealing habits. Heroin addiction has become a major problem in Pakistan affecting many socioeconomic groups.
4. •People cannot work efficiently
•They fail to follow society rules and regulations
•Their social life is disturbed
•They fail to be a normal social being
•Due to drug addiction increase in crime occurs
•Their generation also get effected
•They cannot put up their whole potential to add to country’s
economy.
7. 1. Lack of knowledge
2. Easy Availability
3. Peer Pressure
4. Poverty and unemployment
8. •Ignoring responsibilities at work, home and office
•Lost of old friends due to sudden changes in mood
•Try to keep himself in isolation
• Demands for money without giving any arguments
•Develops stealing habits
•Weight loss, reddish eyes, bad breath, less conscious
about cleanliness and lack of tolerance.
•Restlessness, hopelessness, anxiety, tension and
physical pain
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13. 1.It is estimated that most of the heroin reaching Pakistan is trafficked
through the Helmand and Kandahar borders.
2.According to the report, Pakistani criminal groups paid an estimated $400
million to Afghan drug traffickers.
3.Heroin trafficked from Pakistan met the majority of demand in the Near
and Middle East Asia.
4.Drugs trafficked by sea from the Baluchistan coast are usually first loaded
onto small boats before being taken out to international waters.
5.Drugs are transported across the Pakistan-Iran border through different
means
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15. After independence in 1947, the same laws were followed by the government
until 1979, when the “Hadood' ordinance was passed.The ordinance placed a
ban on the cultivation, production, sale and use of narcotics within Pakistan,
which led to the closing down of legal outlets for drug, nevertheless, illegal
availability of drugs continued. It was not until early 1980's, when Heroin
infiltrated through the drug using scenes of Pakistan. Pakistan became a major
exporter of heroin in the 1980s,As a proportion of drug abusers, heroin users
increased from 7.5 percent in 1983 to a shocking 51 percent in 1993. Since then
Heroin use has reached epidemic proportions in Pakistan affecting nearly every
socio-economic group. Pakistan has always confronted with a drug abuse
problem ever since its existence and today, the country has the largest heroin
consumer market in the south-westAsia region.
16. •Literacy and Employment Rates
•Age Group
•Occupation
•Means of Financial Support
•Prison Contact
17. •The number of teens using drugs are increasing day by day
•In Pakistan it is because of the easily availability of drugs on
large scale
•Mostly teens adobt this because they take it as a cool factor
•Everybody has to contribute to mark full stop on it
•Parents should not smoke or drink atleast infront of their
children
•Universities should conduct workshops to create awarness
about it
•Government should make sure that it is banned strictly
•Now this is the time to break the chain of teens drug addiction
or stop it from forming
18. •Transition of women from tradition role of
mother, sister, wife and daughter to an
economical provider of family
•The occurrence of this among women has an
input that goes beyond the individual
•Many feels that drugs use by females is even
worse
•In Pakistan it is difficult to get access to
women who are addicted to drugs therefore it
is difficult to get the exact number of women’s
affected
19. •IMPACT ON FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
•IMPACT ON HEALTH
•IMPACT ON CRIME
•IMPACT ON ENVIRONMENT
•IMPACT ON EDUCATION