 Dear students, in this module, we are going to talk about some statistics from the point of view of contextualizing Pakistan's situation of drug abuse with reference to other countries. In other words, we will be talking about the global trends of drug abuse. So 183,000 annual drug-related deaths were reported globally as per UNODC report. And globally, we have 35 million people worldwide who suffer from drug abuse disorder, according to the World Drug Report of 2019. So it is estimated that 271 million people worldwide consume drugs. So these are the huge statistics which reflect that drug has become a very serious social problem, not only for Pakistan, but for the global world as well. And if we contextualize the drug abuse or the problem of drug consumption across different countries, we will see that different countries are having different rates of drug consumption. And let's first talk about the United Kingdom. United Kingdom has 7,258 hospital admissions for drug-related mental behavior disorders in 2018 alone. And in 2018, 17,000 people were present for drug abuse or for drug-related activities. Whereas 2,500 people died because of the drug abuse or drug overdose in 2018 alone. In 2018, 9% of adults have been considered to be taking illicit drugs between the age of 16 and 59. So you see that these statistics are pretty much reflective of a very dangerous situation of drug abuse or drug consumption in the United Kingdom. And in Australia, we have 3.4 million Australians reported to be using illicit drugs during 2019. Ecstasy pills and cannabis are widely used drugs in Australia. And 6.6 million people of aged 14 and over used cannabis in their lifetime in Australia. And people of ages between 20 to 29 are most likely to consume drug substances in Australia. So Australia is also pretty much vulnerable to drug consumption. If we talk about our neighboring country, India, India has a population of over a billion and 62.5 million people use alcohol. So you see that it is one of the largest alcohol consumption countries. 8.75 million people use cannabis. 2 million people use opiates. 0.6 million people use sedatives. And about 25% of the users of opiates and cannabis are likely to seek medical treatment or medical help. So coming to our own country, Pakistan has 6 million of drug users out of which 4 million are using cannabis. Whereas 2.7 million are addicts to use opiates and 0.87 million people consume heroin. 1.5 million people are consuming the sedatives. 0.4 million people use IDU or are injecting drug users. Women constitute 25% of all the drug addicts in Pakistan. Whereas the opiate dependents are 1% of the total drug addicts in Pakistan. So you see that these statistics are pretty much reflexive of a very dangerous situation, not only in the world but also in Pakistan that needs to be addressed by having a systematic policy framework to curb this madness of drug abuse in Pakistan.