The drug crisis in Kashmir is taking on an even more sinister form with synthetic heroin, laced with toxic chemicals becoming the new poison of choice. It is cheaper, deadlier, and more addictive than ever before. Doctors are now seeing a wave of horrifying medical complications—gangrene, heart infections, amputations, and overdoses. Many of these young men arrive at hospitals too late, their limbs already blackened, their bodies shutting down. Some never leave.

Kashmir’s drug crisis is........

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