DRUG ABUSE IN INDIA
June 26 is celebrating as international day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking every year it is an exercise undertaking by the world community to sensitize the people in general and the youth in particular to the menace of drugs the picture is grim if the world statistics on the drugs scenario is taken into account with a turnover of around $500 billions it is third largest business in the world next to petroleum and arms trade about 190 millions people all over the world consume one drug or the other. drug addiction causes immense human distress and the illegal production and distribution of drugs have spawned crime and violence worldwide. today there is no part of the world that is free from the curse of drug trafficking and drug addiction millions of drugs addicts all over world are leading miserable lives between life and death.
India too is caught in this vicious circle of drug abuse and the numbers of drug addicts are increasing day by day according to an un report one million heroin addicts are registered in india and unofficially there are as many as five million what started off as casual use among a minuscule population of high-income group youth in the metro has permeated to all sections of society inhalations of heroin alone has given way to intravenous drug use that too in combination with other sedatives and painkillers this has increased the intensity of the effect hastened the process of addiction and complicated the process of recovery cannabis heroin and indian produced pharmaceutical drugs are the most frequently abused abused drugs in india.
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