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| Drug menace on rise in Kathua | | | Arun Trisal
Kathua, Dec 8 : With each passing day, youths in Kathua town are becoming the victim of drug addiction due to easy availability of these drugs in the neighbouring states like Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, but the menace is unchecked due to the apathy of police.
A youth who wished anonymity over name said that the consignments of contraband in smaller packs including the prescription and psychotropic drugs are brought from the neighbouring states like Punjab and Himachal Pradesh and then sold in black markets in the town. He further said that due to widespread unemployment, youths get tempted and to make quick bucks, young generation is getting slave and addicts of prescription drugs like Proxy van, corex, and other sedatives besides narcotic items Charas and smack.
Here it needs to mention that despite hectic and strenuous efforts from Kathua police the things remained as they are courtesy the lure of becoming rich in short time.
Police and the intellect in society observed that parents, peer and other members of the community need to take up a vigorous campaign to end the menace from the society by helping the addicts (who want to come over the evil habit) to shun the addiction feeling that they are not alone but there stand many helping hand for them.
Health experts, sociologists and psychologists referring to the various research papers, stated that addicts at times become so dependent and emotionally weak that they even fell prey to the anti social elements. "And thus the drug abuse and addiction comprise paramount problem in society but also becomes an emotional issue as it makes a family to break up due to economic.
Living in close vicinity of the Punjab, the drug peddlers move easily in the neighbouring states and also get drugs from the truck drivers who bring the same from valley to sell in Punjab, some experts said and adding, " thus the Kathua being situated at intersection of end point and start of state of Jammu and Kashmir have turned a hub for drug peddlers.
"To weed out this menace it now has become a serious concern for all the literate citizen in general police particularly. |
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