IBTIDA Drug Rehabilitation Center

A community-based drug rehabilitation programme: a project of the Diocese of Karachi, Church of Paki In Karachi about one in six adult males uses heroin.

The official number of heroin users in Pakistan was 1.5 million in 1994. 80% of the West’s heroin now comes through Pakistan, with Karachi as the main city for shipments. The opium from which the heroin is made is grown along the Afghan border (the Golden Crescent). Despite being illegal, drugs are cheap to buy and in many parts of the city are used openly on the streets. Part of the problem is th  ...