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Drug addiction is on the increase in Pakistan Young boys and girls of colleges and universities fall an easy victim to it The reasons are quite obvious The first reason is that the young people feel frustrated and tense in the modern world They fail to solve their emotional and intellectual problems themselves They are highly educated but they do not get a job according to their ability In this world of tension and anxiety they feel lonely and sad They resort to drugs in order to mitigate their sorrows and sufferings The second reason is that the uneducated people use drugs to relieve pain and sufferings Drug addiction is not a new thing It has been in practice for centuries People used opium Charas and Bhang in the past These narcotics gave them temporary pleasure and transported them into a world where there was no sorrow or suffering Now man has left these old narcotics and has become addicted to heroin Heroin is the most sophisticated form of the drug It is prepared from Opium The major centres of illegal opium production are Turkey Afghanistan and Pakistan Heroin produced in these areas is marketed to European countries and America It is a very costly drug That is why it is smuggled to rich countries It is the most addictive of drugs A man may become addicted to it within a week Its influence on our body mind and soul is irresistible If once this evil addiction grips us it may not leave us for years There are many reasons for its prevalence in Pakistan First the smugglers of heroin are very influential They are not caught and punished severely Secondly the recent Afghan Russian War has encouraged this Thirdly young people want to get rid of their depression and anxiety They resort to the use of drugs which mitigate their sufferings temporarily Moreover there is a misconceived notion that narcotics increase physical power and energy Moreover the heroine is the only drug which is easily available Some people use it to have a new experience but soon they are caught into its web The use of drugs harms our body and mind It affects lungs heart and kidneys of the victim It causes tuberculosis and cancer It relieves depression for a short time and gives temporary pleasure But as soon as the intoxication is over it takes us to the world of reality and strain In this way it cripples our activity and makes us inactive A drug addict cannot live without the drug He can become a criminal a robber or a thief He must steal money to get the drug Thus drug addiction produces an army of idlers and socially inactive people In this way it turns active and vigorous young people into active and passive idlers The Government of Pakistan is trying its utmost to control its prevalence It persuades the producers of heroin not to prepare it at the same time it uses coercive measures to curb its preparation cooperation of other countries like USA UK West Germany and Canada is sought to counter its spread