FORMER IG Punjab Police and Project Director Drug Free City Altaf Qamar has said that over nine million Pakistanis are drug addicts among whom two to 2.5 million are 15 to 25 years old, 200,000 are women, 60 percent are literate and 40 percent have been found illiterate while annually 500,000 are becoming addict to various types of drugs. He was addressing a seminar organised by the Department of Applied Psychology in collaboration with the Anti Narcotic Force at Undergraduate Study Centre on Wednesday. Prof Dr Rukhsana Kausar, faculty members and a large number of students participated. Qamar stated that all substances, including cigarette, alcohol, hashish, heroin, Gutka and Sheesa, were injurious to health and caused high blood pressure, heart diseases, mouth and throat cancer. He said the people started smoking as a fashion and then became addict to it. He said drug addicts also committed social crimes. Prof Dr Rukhsana Kausar said the drug abuse also known as substance abuse referred to the excessive and harmful use of psychoactive substances including alcohol and illicit drugs. She said psychoactive substance use could lead a cluster of behavioural, cognitive and physiological phenomena that developed after repeated substance use. She said drug abuse led to wide range of problems and significant distress among the sufferers, family, community and society.
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