Can you drink in pakistan

Of course there are places in the U. Ten states allow dry counties. But these dry areas are going wet. In Maryland, for example, the last dry town, Damascus, became wet in Now 65, this is the way he himself used to be. He watched two of his friends die of cirrhosis of the liver and nearly died himself. He decided to stop drinking but went into clinical depression for a year. Only then did he receive therapy, later setting up his organisation, which is registered with Britain's Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body.

Drinking among the affluent is especially noticeable. Some senior politicians are rumoured to drink, and alcohol is served at some high-society events, though never on camera. But it affects everybody. Last month, at least 12 people in Karachi died after drinking toxic home-made liquor.

Some Pakistani alcoholics are women. For them, the stigma is all the greater. In Pakistan's second city, Lahore, Sara - whose name we have changed - recounts her story. Five years ago, aged 33 and with two teenage children, she got divorced. Then alcoholism just sucked her in.

She would go binge-drinking for days at a time and suffer blackouts. And that really frightened me. As word got around and she became an embarrassment to her children, Sara wanted to go to a rehabilitation clinic.

But being a woman made this very difficult in Pakistan. A woman will never stand up and say I have a problem and I need help. That's not acceptable. Nine months ago, she finally sought assistance and was able to get medicine and therapy-based help at home, from Therapy Works. Now she is recovering. In an unregulated medical market, there are other clinics whose approach to treatment is much more strict.

The BBC visited one in Karachi, called Willing Ways, where a group of current and former residents were in a session with the doctor who founded the establishment. A senior police official said underground sales persist, with bottles smuggled into Pakistan through sparsely populated areas on the south coast.

Faced with so many obstacles and a month of sobriety, Daud, the lawyer in Lahore, said in the absence of booze he is smoking more hashish, which is produced in large quantities in northwest Pakistan.

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