Menace of drugs

What are drugs? Why is there so much talk on them? Why do the people fall prey to them? Are narcotics called drugs? These are some of the questions which are asked by many of us. The elders try to answer them, but not satisfactorily. Inspite of the warning of the dangrous and the effects of these drugs the number of addicts is going on increasing. About 1.5 million people are said to be the addicts of drugs, and have ruined their lives. It is an alarming situation. The drug addicted looks pale and intoxicated living in the fantasies, forgetting every other thing. The drugs make him sleepish and woeful. His condition becomes miserable and unfit for all types of healthy activities. Opium, heroin, marijuana, hashish and hashish are dried leaves and flowers of a plant called hemp. The leaves, flowers and even stalks of this plant are somked and sometime chewed. Heroine is a refined form of opium, fifty times more potent than the latter. All these intoxicants have provved damaging for health. Heroin affects the brain and damages the nerve cells. A person addicted to it can neither think clearly nor work actively. A state of drowsiness takes hold of him. He takes drug as the reliever of him tension, worries, anxiety and frustration. How are we caught in the net of drugs? Usually friends of bad company may offer their fellow mates of a drug pusher may give it free of cost in the beginning. Sometime it is available in the form of chewable stuff like sweet "chalia" or "sonf" sapan. Once one falls a victim, it is difficult for him to shake it off. The bright students are reduced to zero. Sole bread earners of family are ruined, unable to work and support their families. Therefore something needs to be done for the survival and rehabilitation of the wretched wreck living in hopelessness, dirty sack. Though there appears no hope of his survival but we must try our best to get him back to normal living. Government has set up rehabilitation centres in the big hospitals in almost all big cities for the treatment and rehabilitation of the addicts. Cultivation of poppy has been banned. Heroin laboratories in trible areas have been closed down. The smuggling of drugs has to be checked with an iron hand to save the lives of innocent people. We have to make people aware of the dangers of drugs by arranging seminars, speeches and walkes in all cities and towns. We have to be strong enough to refuse the offer of a stranger and stop smoking. Like other countries the advertisements of cigrette on electronic media and newspaper have to be banned to save the children from this temptation. WITH BEST WISHESYOUR REGARDS, ABDUL SAMAD