Heroin at Panjgur

ABSTRACT

Average age of heroin addicts seen in a day at Panjgur was 21.6 years, duration of habit within eight months, smoked in group of four persons and each consumed 1/2 g daily in two sessions. The dependence was discovered by the medical officer in most of the patients who approached the rural health centre for the treatment of chest infection or malaria. The prevalence of heroin addiction was calculated on the basis of patients seen at the RHC during the last eight months. Very conservative estimate puts the figure at an alarming high level of 13.6% in the age group 10 - 39 years of the male population