DOST of the Hopeless

zeejah,

Good work! what DOST is doing is fairdinkum ``Jihad``... I would like to enlist! account details would be good.

And yeah, God damn those who are responsible for spreading drugs.

I am retired medical doctor and seen and treated some patients in 60s to mid 80s. There is no answer and medication to overcome addiction.I may have treated about 45 patients only 2 were able to overcome addiction.Most were controlled addicts. There was one of my relative and I could not help him. Most lived about 65% of their normal life span, and it was miserable life a wasted life. It is a sorrow of our profession we cannot help addicts. Now things may be more dangerous due many diseases like AIDS and others.I will like to know from readers if they `really` know people who were saved from drug problems.

This article is a good window for looking at the tip of this iceberg. Drugs are now a major social problem in Pakistan, one that needs to be confronted with pragmatism and much urgency.
DOST Welfare Foundation and other centers like it need Pakistani-American financial support. Is there someone out there who wants to take this
initiative here in America to promote DOST?

Zeejah Sahiba, this article may not get hundreds
of responses but it is your best yet to grace
CHOWK. Your observation:

``Drug addicts are neither violent and dangerous nor weak-willed and bad. A personality profile of people at risk would be that of high achieving, sensitive and intelligent people.``

I could write a long-winded reply here about who is responsible for this mess. But I wont, and not because the extremists will get on my case. Because today, even they cannot deny the magnitude of this problem. But I will say that a people have been used in the worst manner ``to make the world safe for democracy``.
ZJ, Do You have an address or a account number for DOST that we can circulate in North America?
And thanks for bringing up this issue here.

Ras