Oman's Drug Abuse and Addiction Figures Start to Rise
By 2008, Oman was seeing a large increase in the quantity of cannabis resin (hashish) seizures and in the quantity of Captagon seized. Captagon used to be the name of a prescription medication, but when that medication went off the market, it became the street name for a formulation that usually contains between 1 percent and 7 percent amphetamine. The trafficking of Captagon is common throughout the Gulf and Mid-East countries.
Increases in seizures generally mean there have been increases in supply followed by increases in numbers of those addicted to the drugs being trafficked. And sure enough, these increases were accompanied by an rise in the demand for drug rehab for amphetamine addiction.
The largest increases in drug addiction are currently seen in school and college girls. In 2008, 1,826 people were officially registered with the government as drug addicts. In 2009, 19 people died due to drug abuse and the number of crimes related to drug use were climbing, increasing in a few years from 78 to 688. About this time, the government of Oman acknowledged that it had a drug problem among its young people. They recently built a new psychiatric hospital capable of treating 50 addicts at a time.
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