Pakistan Estimates Drug Abuser 4 mil.

A Pakistani drug addict injects himself with heroin in a roadside corner in northwest Pakistan’s Peshawar on March 2, 2012.

It is estimated that the total number of drug abusers in Pakistan is about four million. But a survey conducted by the United Nations in 2006 shows the total number of addicts in the country is 624,000.

Among them, 400,000 are hard core heroin addicts while 120,000 are injecting drug users. <Photo: Xinhua/Umar Qayyum>

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