Human rights: the age of pills
[Episode 79]
Today we focus on an unprecentented phenomenon which is drawing attention from the media: the incresing misuse of medicines and dependency on drugs, addiction which has rapidly spread throughout Gaza over the last two years. As the population struggles to cope with Israel closing their home to the outside world, the wonky inner political situation, and then the aftermath of Operation Cast Lead, pills such as Tramadol and Toradol - smuggled in through tunnels from Egypt - have provided a welcome escape from reality We interviewed Doctor Eyad Sarraj, managing director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program and asked him to make the picture of what’s happening in Gaza and why.
