The Grip of the Dragon

Pakistan | 1998

The production of opium in Pakistan has plummeted thanks to a 15-year eradication programme. The shattering irony is that in the same 15 years Pakistan has gone from a nation of almost no drug users to the one with the most heroin addicts in the word. Martin Adler follows the addicts to the slums and sewers of Pakistan's cities and analyses the social traumas induced by drug addiction. Still more…