Lawmakers urged to legislate for rehabilitation of drug addicts
(WorldNews Pakistan)

Representatives of the Save The Life Organisation (STLO), a Lyari-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), called for legislation on the issue of drug addiction during a walk organised on Wednesday in Lyari to mark International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. The STLO speakers said the drug addiction, also called substance use disorder, was a disease that affected a person`s brain and behaviour and led to an inability to control the craving to consume a legal or illegal drug or medication. Substances such as alcohol, marijuana and nicotine were...