Grip of the Dragon - Pakistan

Description

July 2007 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 world. Martin Adler follows the addicts to the slims and sewers of Pakistan's cities and analyses the social traumas induced by drug addiction. Still more disturbing - evidence that rural labourers are being paid in heroin, making them slaves to the drug.

Keywords

opium, heroin, Pakistan, Martin, Adler, journeyman, pictures, news, documentary, current affairs, journeyman pictures

Related videos ^Experimental