Srinagar: Substance abuse has assumed alarming proportions in Kashmir, the numbers rising steeply every year. Nearly 7500 addiction cases had been seen in 2020 at GMC Srinagar, and in 2021, which is yet to be over, 13500 people abusing various drugs have been registered.
The GMC Srinagar runs two OPDs for people seeking treatment of various substance addictions, including lethal Heroin. One of these centers is at Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences Rainawari and the other at Community General Hospital SMHS Hospital. In the two centers together, 13500 OPD registrations were made between January 2021 and end of November 2021, hospital records show. The number is alarmingly higher than the registrations made in 2020 – 7403. In 2019, the number of registrations was 5113, although for a part of 2019, hospitals had become inaccessible to patients.
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