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Amritsar's youth and drug addiction
High percentage of youth in the Indian city of Amritsar are drug addicts.
Last Modified: 06 Jan 2010 15:00 GMT



Amritsar is one of India's most magnificent cities - home to the stunning golden temple ... but a staggering seventy per cent of the city's young people are drug addicts.

Amritsar's proximity to the heroin trail out of Pakistan and Afghanistan makes it a prime target for drug traffickers.

Al Jazeera's Prerna Suri reports.

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