:00:02. > :00:12.West. Mobeen Azhar finds out how a charity is trying to help addicts
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:00:28. > :00:38.Karachi is in the grip of a drugs epidemic. In this port city, there
:00:38. > :00:42.is an estimated 500,000 chronic heroin addicts. With exclusive
:00:42. > :00:52.access, we will speak to addicts and those who are trying to turn
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:00:52. > :01:44.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds
:01:44. > :01:51.It is a hot morning at the Edhi Foundation call centre. The NGO is
:01:51. > :02:01.expected across Pakistan and runs a large ambulance services. They
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:02:35. > :02:45.respond to car crashes and domestic It is not long before a distressed
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:06:58. > :07:04.mother calls for help for her son. Also at the centre are two brothers
:07:04. > :07:08.who have been in rehab for a week. As they take themselves into the
:07:08. > :07:18.centre, they can decide when they want to leave. They are convinced
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:08:28. > :08:35.The Edhi Foundation offers free service and is run entirely on
:08:35. > :08:45.donations. With an average of 400 patients living at the centre at
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:09:39. > :09:44.any one time, Dr Ayoz is the Every Thursday, the centre
:09:44. > :09:54.transforms into a drop-in clinic. Over 200 patients and their
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:10:01. > :10:11.Each patient receives a sedative injection and a week's worth of 40
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:10:25. > :10:35.A week after checking themselves into the centre, brothers Hussain
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:11:39. > :11:46.and Yusaf say they are ready to His wife does not want to see him
:11:46. > :11:56.and his mother-in-law told him to leave. It is not the welcome home
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:12:12. > :12:22.We went back to speak to his wife. At 16, she says her life has been
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:13:49. > :13:59.The next day, the brothers was sleeping rough. They were a few
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:14:47. > :14:56.Karachi is a port city. Over a decade of conflict in Afghanistan
:14:56. > :15:04.has led to an unregulated poppy industry, generating record op-ed
:15:04. > :15:11.exports. -- opiate. Much of it comes through Karachi before being
:15:11. > :15:20.shipped to Europe and America. As a result, Harrow won in Karachi is
:15:20. > :15:30.often cheaper than food. -- heroine. In this city, you are never far
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:16:17. > :16:21.Back at the centre, this is the second morning at a rehabilitation.
:16:21. > :16:31.He is finding it hard to deal with the fact that his mother forced to
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:18:36. > :18:46.into treatment. -- forced him into His mother is finding it harder to
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:19:43. > :19:53.Today, 48 hours after calling for help, Josephine will visit him for
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:20:51. > :21:01.Some of the staff have told me that his desperation to leave his part
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:22:46. > :22:51.of the withdrawal process. Could It has been one week since I heard
:22:51. > :22:57.from Hussain and Yusef and local people tell me that they have not
:22:57. > :23:03.seen them. Out of the blue, Hussain has called and says he wants to
:23:03. > :23:13.meet me. He says he has put his addiction behind him and has a new
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:23:51. > :24:01.In a city of 20 million people, Hussain is completely alone. For
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:24:38. > :24:41.the first time in his life, he is These are just three of the