Public efforts against drug addiction are limited to detoxification without any follow up treatment. Private clinics use a variety of treatment methods against addiction but relapse rates are high for all treatment methods. This new organization has expanded demand reduction activities, particularly in the public awareness area. For the first time Pakistan's religious leaders are being educated about drug abuse and included in demand reduction efforts. The Directorate also has made agreements with all four Pakistani provinces to permit provincial demand reduction programs coordinated by the Directorate.
Demand reduction is an integral part of Pakistan's five-year master plan for drug control.
US Policy Initiatives. The law enforcement program provides equipment and support for the expanding ANF, Customs, Border Security Forces and Coast Guard to enable them to communicate and carry out their functions more efficiently. The USG continues to concentrate on those items of equipment that most enhance the ability of units to pursue investigations. The focus of training in 1996 will be internal affairs investigations and operations, management skills and efforts to strengthen the Pakistani counternarcotics school. The current program focuses on providing roads into isolated, poppy growing valleys, thereby enhancing political and law enforcement control.