On a rainy morning in May, dozens of young men queued outside a drug drug rehabilitation centre in Srinagar city in Indian-administered Kashmir. Many of them were teens accompanied by their parents, waiting for their turn to receive medicines from the Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (IMHANS), the only government-run drug rehabilitation centre in Kashmir. The medicines help reduce their withdrawal symptoms and prevent the transmission of infectious diseases. “Did you take heroin again?” a doctor asks a young man after examining the size of his pupils. “Yes, I…
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