Cold Turkey in Karachi Our World

West. Mobeen Azhar finds out how a charity is trying to help addicts

Karachi is in the grip of a drugs epidemic. In this port city, there

is an estimated 500,000 chronic heroin addicts. With exclusive

access, we will speak to addicts and those who are trying to turn

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It is a hot morning at the Edhi Foundation call centre. The NGO is

expected across Pakistan and runs a large ambulance services. They

respond to car crashes and domestic It is not long before a distressed

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mother calls for help for her son. Also at the centre are two brothers

who have been in rehab for a week. As they take themselves into the

centre, they can decide when they want to leave. They are convinced

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The Edhi Foundation offers free service and is run entirely on

donations. With an average of 400 patients living at the centre at

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any one time, Dr Ayoz is the Every Thursday, the centre

transforms into a drop-in clinic. Over 200 patients and their

Each patient receives a sedative injection and a week's worth of 40

A week after checking themselves into the centre, brothers Hussain

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and Yusaf say they are ready to His wife does not want to see him

and his mother-in-law told him to leave. It is not the welcome home

We went back to speak to his wife. At 16, she says her life has been

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The next day, the brothers was sleeping rough. They were a few

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Karachi is a port city. Over a decade of conflict in Afghanistan

has led to an unregulated poppy industry, generating record op-ed

exports. -- opiate. Much of it comes through Karachi before being

shipped to Europe and America. As a result, Harrow won in Karachi is

often cheaper than food. -- heroine. In this city, you are never far

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Back at the centre, this is the second morning at a rehabilitation.

He is finding it hard to deal with the fact that his mother forced to

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into treatment. -- forced him into His mother is finding it harder to

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Today, 48 hours after calling for help, Josephine will visit him for

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Some of the staff have told me that his desperation to leave his part

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of the withdrawal process. Could It has been one week since I heard

from Hussain and Yusef and local people tell me that they have not

seen them. Out of the blue, Hussain has called and says he wants to

meet me. He says he has put his addiction behind him and has a new

In a city of 20 million people, Hussain is completely alone. For

the first time in his life, he is These are just three of the