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| DLL organizes workshop on Drug abuse and illicit Trafficking | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 7: The Department of Life long Learning (formerly Centre for Adult,Continuing Education and Extension),University of Jammu organized a one day workshop on Drug Abuse and illicit Trafficking in the DLL Seminar Hall.
Professor R D Sharma, Dean Academic Affairs, University of Jammu was the chief guest while Farooq Khan, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Jammu was the key speaker at the inaugural function. Professor Poonam Dhawan, Director, DLL, Prof Arti Bakshi, Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Jammu, Dr Kavita Suri, Assistant Director DLL who was also the workshop coordinator, Dr. Chandrasekhar, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, DLL faulty members including Dr Bharti Prabhakar, Dr Sandeep Singh Sandy, Dr Pallavi Sachdeva and Vivek Sharma, Sita Anand, Rewa Khajuria, Dr Sudhir Singh were also present during the inaugural function.
Dr Jagdish Thappa, Head of Department, Government Psychiatry Hospital Jammu, Dr Manu Arora, well known psychiatrist of J&K, Pallavi Singh, Incharge, Mashwara, the only drug rehabilitation centre in Jammu region and Dheeraj Nagpal and Gaganjeet Singh, both Intelligence officers from Narcotics Control Bureau Jammu and Kashmir, were the resource persons for the workshop.
Delivering his inaugural address, Prof R D Sharma, Dean Academics Affairs, University of Jammu said that drug abuse and illicit trafficking is taking a heavy toll of our younger generation. He said it paints a grim picture as drugs trade is the third largest business in the world, next to petroleum and arms trade. India too is caught in this vicious circle of drug abuse and the numbers of drug addicts are increasing day by day.
Saying that it is very important for the Departments like DLL to organize such sensitization and awareness workshop amongst youth to create and spread awareness about drug abuse which causes immense human distress, he added that as India has the largest population of the youth in the world, it is also very important for all of us to save them from such abuse.
“With most drug users being in the productive age group of 18-35 years, the loss in terms of human potential is incalculable.
The damage to the physical, psychological, moral and intellectual growth of the youth is very high. Adolescent drug abuse is one of the major areas of concern in adolescent and young people's behavior, he said adding that more such workshops should be organized for the youth on the theme.
In his key note address, Farooq Khan, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Jammu, who also has a significant experience in dealing with the crimes related to drugs and narcotics trade in his career, said that like other parts of India, drug users are increasing in Jammu and Kashmir also but Jammu, as such, is free from hard drug abuse but at the same time it does not mean that it is going to remain forever.
He said that urban centres like Bishnah, R S Pura, Arnia etc were much effected due to drug use.
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He said though the J&K police was not been able to pay that kind of attention to the problem which should have been be given in the past few years because of other challenges of terrorism etc,but now Jammu Police has picked up this issue in a big way and has seriously started addressing this problem.
He felt that the fight against drug abuse and illicit trafficking has to be joint one in which all the stakeholders have to work together.
Drug abuse, said the senior police officer, has led to a detrimental impact on the society and an increase in the crime rate.
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