Paper short abstract:

The paper examines how debtors manage their time and security exploring the relations of trust and social status among drug users in Uzbekistan . The role of families and the status of the family members who have debts will also be discussed.

Paper long abstract:

Coming to power of Taliban in Afghanistan will have major security and political implications in Central Asia which is considerable for the general epidemiological situation in Central Asia in general. Drug trafficking routes is of another importance to consider to analyse drug abuse and availability of drugs in the region. Although the early Soviet skyrocking of drug abuse in Central Asia has been stopped and stabilised there are still problems related to public heath issues and other problems drug users face today which is largely understudied. The paper examines how debtors manage their time and security exploring the relations of trust and social status among drug users. The role of families and the status of the family members who have debts will also be discussed. The concepts of cooperative governance and adversarial governance by Kim and Sanberg (2017) will be discussed. The importance of social control among the same group will also be discussed.