Alert!! Kashmir has 70000 drug abusers, 52000 using heroin: Survey

Drug abuse among youngsters has increased manifold with medicos blaming easy access to illicit drugs in Kashmir. As per the official figures, the Drug De-addiction Center at SMHS Hospital receives at least 150 drug addiction cases every day. Of 150 cases, 70 cases are follow-up cases and the remaining cases are new. There are also 15 drug addiction cases among teenagers. According to the officials, 95 percent of cases are heroin abusers. According to the doctors, after doing serological tests of these patients, of the 100, 70 cases are found to have Hepatitis…

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