The magnitude of drug abuse among students in Karachi continues to get worse, despite intervention efforts by the government and social welfare groups. While reliable data is hard to come by due to taboos around the subject, a 2024 survey by the Pakistan Narcotics Control Board found that 44% of university and college students were engaged in drug use, with one in five schoolchildren having experimented with drugs at least once. Anecdotal evidence from several sources suggests the numbers have gotten........

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