Kashmir's Silent Epidemic

More than 1.3 million people in Jammu and Kashmir, nearly 10% of its total population, are doing drugs.

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Even more alarming is the fact that 95,000 of them are children, aged between 10 and 17, addicted to opioids. Another addiction that has caught on is the growing use of synthetic heroin in recent years. Incidentally, 90 percent of all users ar young men, with a mean age of about 28 years. This isn't now just a health issue anymore. It is a full-blown social crisis. And if ignored, it threatens to hollow out an entire generation from the inside.