Ghost of drugs looms over K-P youths
As many as 10.9 per cent of the province’s population feared to be affected by drug usage
PESHAWAR:
At the tender age of just 14 years, Sohail, a youth from Peshawar was checked into a private drug rehabilitation facility for regular use of Ice a form of the potent stimulant drug methamphetamine.
“I was even younger…much younger when I was first introduced to hashish, which I’d often see my friends smoking willy nilly. It always intrigued me, until I puffed some myself. Once the novelty of hashish died, they introduced me to ice and other injectable drugs. Ice became my poison of choice and I kept feeding to my vices until I couldn’t function without it anymore,” recalled the youth, who’s now a month into detox.