Drugs Contributing to Social Unrest

Drug abuse involves the repeated and excessive use of chemical substances to achieve a certain effect. It brings about physical, emotional and behavioral changes. Every drug has its own different effects. Some, such as cocaine produce an intense "rush" and initial feelings of boundless energy. Others, such as a heroin produces feelings of relaxation and calm. Drugs over stimulate the pleasure center of the brain and as the time passes brain's chemistry is actually alters to the extreme where it becomes painful not having the drug. The need to use drug becomes more and more powerful and important than anything else, including job, friends and family, destroying work, relationships, and health.

In the last many years drug addiction has increased a lot in Pakistan and in South Asia general. It gets overshadowed by such as poverty and illiteracy which contributes to social unrest.

Today, the country has the largest heroin consumer market in the south-west Asia region. Pakistan is not only one of the main exporters of heroin, it has also become a net importer of drugs.