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the more likes watching it. on youtube, dw documentary, the violence unrest and strengths indian administered kashmir has a volatile history, but a new poison has taken over the region and it's consuming entire families. yeah, don't, and that's how you doing. my god. heroine would keep me away from the protests. maryland helped me to run away from them. who would want her to treat housing says inches are being used daily, a bite. this meeting drug addiction has reached epidemic proportions. here and it's most of the young people and it's hold the

every morning ro, honda jump, being an outraged campaigner with a government supported agency in the capital. srinagar distributes pamphlets in public spaces to raise awareness of drug abuse. what type of drug use is they spend on drugs, entire families or ruins because the money is wasted on drugs. children are suffering. addicts are unable to pay school fees. women are suffering, having health issues for me. when you speak to women living with drug addicts, they are victims of domestic violence. we see bruises on the faces, hands and even button motors, i'm ok. it's a challenging job. i have faced dangerous drug addicts once or twice or 3 months. and alex, you've run off to me when we enter the locality. some other people intervene and

save me might be but okay, but i, you, me, a colleague, a chic tougher rouge says one particular drug is doing all the damage that i'm doing, the caraway and even kids are injecting it to somebody from they used to be people about 25 years old, but you now see children as young as 15 with a drug problem. just recently we met a young boy age 15, who was hepatitis c positive. c plus hepatologist sees a common indicator of intravenous drug abuse caused by use as sharing infected needles. she could show me the hot spots on this map with incidence rates of hepatitis c r as high as 17 cases for every 100 people. these are the places where he gets most calls from is destroyed. parents call him to health for the children who have taken 2 drugs.

one of these parents is rashid tom. his son eat ball khan is among the many patients admitted to this addiction treatment center. the biggest in the region, the to protect their identities. we have changed the names and kind of shows the faces. for sheets on each file has been getting treatment for the last few weeks after his father brought him in, feeling for his life to his face had marks he kept drinking only tea, even during the night. he would always have a full kettle of tea. i would not sleep at night at the moon calling every day, but i wanted to see about the show. then we went into his room to check on him only to find him in a state of unconsciousness and responsive return. yes, yes, i'm definitely an ottoman and i had hoped to provide him with an education confident that he would have so you, by the way to, we are

a poor family ones even held onto the belief that he would eventually support us. but that's it. all you gotta buy is a call into use to sing, and my dream was to see him succeed through music to secure our future cecilia life, and feel so joy, this is why you can't. you wasn't giving way. this is bundled you folks, childhood, and teenage g is what directly impacted by the decades old kashmir conflict in 2016, 21 year old bullhorn wanting a commander of his boom, which i had d, which is an estimate militant organization and in searching group was killed by the indian forces, he was considered a hero and a mazda by the regions you soon violent demonstrations, mainly attended by young men and boys, abrupt it before too often, these process, it was part of the mugs who pelted security personnel with stones 2016 job in

2016, we were studying in school on the aftermath of the bron wanting crisis. and it was a military crisis, an army crisis you were asking for as id or freedom that we just wanted to be free . a. but the violence spiraled out of control. excited the room, but nobody got the same thing. my best friend and i were throwing stones together. that's love. you get food. if i still have colored gun marks, they're all over my back cuz i saw that you in the name. i don't know was that the 2nd poet gunshot hit my friend because it got too close to the forces that i've taught, mata to go the thoughts enter deep into his body and he had died on the spot for want sales person. and i wasn't shocked. i couldn't believe what happened to the board shop plaza. the atlantic say, who was higher when he told me helped him to escape from the trauma doing it. my

friend wasn't the only one. there were 2 or 3 more people i knew who died in those protests which of those budgets. and so my friends who were left behind, started taking drugs as we bought. i mean 2017. we didn't know who introduced heroin, where to come from elaine casa, say me, but i want to you and you sisters general and put them in the got a lot of some maybe age. i was 13 or 14 years old. i thought it was okay to take care of that better than the chaos of this conflict. the heroine would keep me away from the protests. heroine helped me to run away from the crisis that was unfolding here. how you doing? my god does uh, usually i usually try to tell the main, choose if its the bought it off as he shows as the month. so he's a homes that tell the story if he's difficult rehab journey is up to the time. i mean the withdrawal was bad. he doesn't know, i thought i would lose my mind. yeah, i mean both myself physical pain during the withdrawal. i me bored that it over to

the nominated buddy. you're saying those files are blames the indian associates. his son's condition can genuinely that was hired to fathers just as a government struggled to regain control after protests. they resorted to deploying agents who introduced drugs into the community. it will, it will pull up with a strategy aimed to keep the preoccupied with substance abuse. or would they do, though their tactic proved effective in stopping the unrest and the mental instability due to the drug made them know i'm and disengaged from the turmoil. the stones throwing and militancy is that an old time historically low in the otherwise restive region. but in the absence of any hard evidence, it remains no more than a series that the introduction of opioids to the stone filters away from the streets and to the rehab centers. violent incidents, the common and rehab and doctor such as mohammed one is struggling to cope with the increasing number of intakes at the s h m. c. rehab center. ensuring

a go to government estimates around 1500000 people in john move in kashmir, a using drugs, especially appeal. it's really we are seeing about every day near to about 450 patients, 250 patients. most, most of them abuse opiates and so hope you're doing this other patients. this was not always the case of a hot intake hard drugs or carolyn kelly and cost of that. like if we see one drunk of one gram costs about 56 zero's either the injected or chase the dragon, which means in hailing it on ivy. i read all day using and that's why they're using the fit inches and perhaps sharing it, shooting go from here. those and there is can lead them to either by 3rd grade. so here by types we are seeing what are the challenges as adults. so as someone who is looking off to so many patients and increasingly looking for more and more patients,

what, what do you need here? cause we need more psychologist inputs and you make to provide more counseling sessions for way more to go see 200 patients. every day as a monitor patient, we have a limited number of psychologists with such types of patients taking them what of type of and they need better care what size type of patients. so i take care of implementing mental health is a big challenge and one of the most militarized designs in the world navigating a life under constant surveillance can be humiliation for many and lead to stress. we spoke to the police to inquire if they've been some of the responsibilities approximately part, the 3, posing 6 inches, are being used daily. a bite this me to you. talk to you 3000 students is duty gets a big, big number. how is it connected to knock editors and what does that mean? not to do. it doesn't means that, that it isn't supported by not which i know not fully. jim wayne cost me. it is

getting a consignment from cross border to voters. they're crossing, they loosely on foot, they're crossing their loosely, to drones. i have been to all these de addiction war now when i speak to them, the balance of the victims. young boys, the young voice of starting 1213, you know, going to 25. but at the same time, they also said that if the police warns to control this drug menace, they can do that. and they're claiming that the, the police has thrown the blind eye to hit to this. i accept that there is, there is some, a scope of caught up some that it's definitely if 3 it is this and we have that. how it is reaching to the distributor's, how we distributing to the receive orders and spare less. i know definitely it does

. it has some places like that. can you avoid the fact that shows borders there and some other agencies are deployed on the board? and when we talk about and there is no not, not, i mean the office of human investment police, you talk to other agencies. they really give you the doctor, the maximum chunk of the drug is coming to borders. who's sitting at the bottom. now i'm not going to, under this. so you really, we have to in the layers white and how they're able to cross the border and reach to him to learn. that was a rare acknowledgement by the police that corrupt indian border security officials may be involved in the drug business. a for a she to say and test the roof. it's a not the date. and yet another case where he reaches out to destroy the parents

seeking help for this sons heroin addiction. but what's next? for like maybe life, both the attitude before the addiction, my life was good. i was thinking and learning type londo is i want to get back to that life. i was flourishing and i just want to get back to who i was young. that is what i want to met mom, they don't go to the car, don gunbar june, going to move on to the quote, the gone to go and the on the on to the we travel across the african continent. houston, those who did in this life bringing down, i'm sure that can, would you be you and also what do you need to come to the is

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