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Articles with tag: addiction

Bridge Mania

Mohammad Gill   May 2, 2008   interacts: 21

Myrtle Bennett of Kansas City shot her husband John to death on September 29, 1929, over a bridge hand. Her husband had opened the bidding with one spade.

Kiss of Death

Tazeen Javed   Apr 22, 2008   interacts: 7

Unlike cigarettes, gutka comes without a health warning and lack of awareness of its impact on health increases its consumption.

Cynicism Amongst Pakistani Youth

Ikramul Haq   Feb 3, 2008   interacts: 9

Today the most disturbing trend amongst the youth is the growing use of narcotics. This phenomenon cannot be viewed in isolation from the socio-political and economic realities.

Confessions of Webaholics

Zainub Razvi   Sep 23, 2007   interacts: 1

Has it been five hours since you’ve been watching movie clip after movie clip on You Tube? Or may be you were just randomly searching people’s profiles on Facebook.

Alcohol Use and Abuse

Khalid Sohail   Oct 3, 2007   interacts: 24

Knowledge about alcohol use and abuse allows people to make responsible choices rather than hiding the problem or relying on traditional myths that are hundreds of years old.

The first time I quit

Zehra Rizvi   May 19, 2005   interacts: 39

Three of my smoking neighbors pass by outside my window. They are sweet and I have been collected by them already. A collection amounts to a wave and a smile.

Punch Drunk Love

saman abbasi   Apr 22, 2005   interacts: 38

He lay on the drawing room carpet; face down, totally drunk and vomiting. My eyes welled up and I could not stop my sobs.

A Small Chappati

Aasim Khan   Jun 26, 2004   interacts: 6

The doggie wasn’t looking up or down. He was walking two steps behind his master, and smelling shoe after shoe after shoe. Beads of cold sweat appeared on my forehead and trickled down my face. I was transfixed. Anything could happen.

Acidity - Novellete Part III (final)

Nadeem F Paracha   Oct 31, 2003   interacts: 54

A novelette zigzagging along an addict’s (heroinchie’s) pathological observations of the bleak and absurd comedy of 21st century’s social and political neurosis

Acidity - Novellete Part II

Nadeem F Paracha   Oct 6, 2003   interacts: 20

A novelette zigzagging along an addict’s (heroinchie’s) pathological observations of the bleak and absurd comedy of 21st century’s social and political neurosis

Acidity - Novellete Part I

Nadeem F Paracha   Sep 29, 2003   interacts: 19

A novelette zigzagging along an addict’s (heroinchie’s) pathological observations of the bleak and absurd comedy of 21st century’s social and political neurosis

DOST of the Hopeless

Zeejah    Nov 23, 2000   interacts: 19

there, but for the grace of God, go I

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