kdsingh80 Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 http://www.indianexpress.com/news/every-third-male-student-in-punjab-drug-addict-hc-told/464048/2 According to a Punjab Government survey, 66 per cent of the school-going students in the state consume gutkha or tobacco; every third male and every tenth female student has taken drugs on one pretext or the other and seven out of 10 college-going students abuse one or the other drug. These disturbing details were submitted by Harjit Singh, Secretary, Department of Social Security and Women & Child Development, Chandigarh, in reply to a petition filed by some to drug rehabilitation centres before the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The affidavit further read that “In the recent times, the amount of narcotic substances seized in the state has also been among the highest in the country”. The secretary, on behalf of the Punjab Government, submitted that “the vibrancy of Punjab is virtually a myth.... many sell their blood to procure their daily doze of deadly drugs, even beg on the streets for money to continue their addiction... The entire Punjab is in the grip of drug hurricane which weakens the morale, physique and character of the youth. We are in the danger of losing the young generation. The vibrant Punjab that had ushered in the green revolution is today living in a dazed stupor as 67 per cent of its rural household has at least one drug addict.” He added that use of alcohol and drugs is now a “part of the Punjabi culture”. “No celebration is complete until liquor is served in plenty. However, in the last two decades, the pattern of drug use in the state has undergone a change in favour of new narcotic and synthetic drugs. Now the addicts ... contd.consume multiple as well as single drugs,” read the reply. Punjab alone accounts for roughly over one-fifth of the total recoveries of heroin in the country. The state submitted that studies have been conducted which shed light on the problem in different population groups. The drug traffickers use the cities of Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Tarn Taran, Ferozepur, Kapurthala, Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana, Patiala as well as Chandigarh to smuggle the narcotic substances through Punjab. What the studies show • Opiates, their derivatives and synthetic opiate drugs are used by 70 per cent of the addicts, followed by a combination of opiate and other sedatives, including morphine. • Extent of drug addiction in Punjab is 70 per cent. Household survey indicates that there is at least one drug addict in the 65 per cent of families in Majha and Doaba and 64 percent families of Malwa. Tarn Taran is the most affected rural district and Amritsar is the most affected urban district in Punjab. • Per head consumption of alcohol is the maximum in Punjab and Tarn Taran district tops the list. • In border areas, the extent of substance abuse is 70-75 per cent in the age group of 15-25 years and up to 40 per cent in the age group of 35-60 years. • Over 16 per cent population is addicted to hard drugs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsingh101 Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 The good news just keeps coming huh! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsingh101 Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 Is it just me or does anyone else feel the figures are somewhat exaggerated? I know there is a problem but surely it isn't THAT large? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SURYADEV Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Maybe they are exaggerated. But we just have to go there and loook at the youth. Or just look at the SIkh kids and Faujis here. Talking about the best/cheapest spliff suppliers they know or when they are next having a 'session', not even going out to party with friends, rather just getting together and getting hammered on booze! Have you seen the 'shakul' of a lot of the faujis in SOuthall? Just by their faces you can tell how much alcohol they drink, many are suffering from some degree of alcohol poisoning. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaheediyan Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 They are stats, and as is standard, would have been taken from a sample population, but irrelevant - the report highlights that which everyone who visits the Punjab (real Punjab) or lives in Punjab knows - that the large part of the youth are addicted to nasha, as well as other things. This is the reason why so many Sants try and do parchaar in Punjab for most of the year, rather than taking up numerous diasphora invites - so that they they can help combat this disease. Sadly, thats a generation lost to MTV culture combined with bad socio-political culture and bad Government/s. There will be many suggestions of improving the situation, but none will be as relevant as the fact that Dharma has become an alien concept, and those that try and become Singhs are laughed/shouted at, called Gyani/Baba and ridiculed by their own family - and go through hell in educational institutions down to peer pressure and media portayal. I salute those diamonds who in my very strong and substantiated opinion, who are able to become Guru Gobind Singhs children in Punjab and Delhi today. Ironically, these are the hardest places to be a Sikh in the world today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsingh101 Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 Thing is, if the stats are in some measure accurate, then every 4th youth of the family back home would be an umlee. From what I can tell this isn't the case. But yes there are problems there, I'm just wondering if they are exaggerated in yet another attempt to diminish and demoralise Panjab? Drinking has always been an issue in the panth but this drug thing is new. The mass importation from Afghanistan doesn't help. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdsingh80 Posted March 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 Thing is, if the stats are in some measure accurate, then every 4th youth of the family back home would be an umlee. From what I can tell this isn't the case. But yes there are problems there, I'm just wondering if they are exaggerated in yet another attempt to diminish and demoralise Panjab? Drinking has always been an issue in the panth but this drug thing is new. The mass importation from Afghanistan doesn't help. The case of every family differ from other.It is not necessary that in all Families 1 out of every 3 boy has taken a drug.Also There is different between hardcore drug addict and a person who has taken a drug .many people may have taken it for a month or 2 and then left it.The media always put masala in their news 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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