Today every country in the world is no longer secure from the menace of drug abuse.
Drugs have been used for medical purposes since time immemorial. But these days drugs and narcotics are being used freely by people all over the world. Thus abuse of narcotics has caused wide spread concern to all the nations of the world. The number of people using opium, cocaine, charas, sedatives and other narcotics has surpassed all dimensions.
Mostly it is the younger generation that fall an easy prey to it. It cripples the addict’s mental and physical organs and cause a painful problem for him and his family. The addicts become immoral and commit crimes of various sorts in order to get drugs. They lose their conscious, self control, willpower and memory. They indulge in antisocial activities which turn is stamping them as out castes in the society. Eventually, the abuse of drugs hastens their untimely death if not checked in time. More than eighty percent of heroin addicts in India are in the age group of 12 to 25 years. The abuse of drugs has been found mostly in the urban areas of our country.
There are several reasons for taking to drug habit. In order to become modern, students with heavy purses take to drug habit. When their money is spent they spread its use among others. Some youth take to overcome frustration in life. There are scores of other factors which lead children to drug addiction.
Now and then we read in the newspapers about seizures of various intoxicants by the police raids. This shows how much the use of drugs has spread in India. India has become a major transit route for worldwide drug traffic. This has caused much concern to the Indian Government as well as the governments of other countries of the world.
Our attitude should be kind, sympathetic and human towards addicts. We have to educate people about the abuse of drugs through various means of communication. Many centers have been set up for deaddiction of drug abusers. More and more efforts are needed by all of us to check its spread.
Vocabulary
Menace—trouble
Frustration—depression
Ape—imitate
