PIMS receiving huge burden of drug addicts
(WorldNews Pakistan)

Islamabad : Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has been receiving huge burden of drug addicts at its psychiatry department as in last one month, the department has received well over 3,000 drug addicts for treatment. There is no separate service for treatment of drug addicts at PIMS and the psychiatry department provides treatment facilities to drug addicts through its existing resources that are limited otherwise we could have managed over 10000 addicts a month as the influx is much heavy, said Head of Psychiatry Department at PIMS Professor Dr. Rizwan Taj while talking to ‘The News’ on Wednesday in connection with United Nations International Day against Drug Abuse...