Is Saudi Arabia losing the battle to combat substance abuse?
Alastair Sloan Friday, 28 March 2014 17:19
There's a story in the medical journal Emergency Physicians International, in which a Saudi doctor finds a male patient convulsing on the floor of his ward, unable to talk. Suspecting the young man may be showing early signs of a heart attack, he bundles him into a treatment room. A nurse whips the cubicle curtain closed, leaving his family crying outside. The young man pulls the doctor close - "Don't tell my parents, but I've taken amphetamines."