Kashmir’s Youth Victim of Drugs

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The situation in Kashmir is worsening daily. On the one hand is our conditions that make life increasingly difficult and on the other hand is our youth taking to drugs. The youth of any nation is its investment and its future. They are the ones who are the doctors, engineers, and politicians of tomorrow. They hold the future of the nation in their hands. All the hopes of the nation are vested in its youth. If the youth goes off-track and wanders into darkness, the future of the nation gets plunged into darkness.

The bright future of the nation requires its youth to be fired up with valour and passion. However, the youth of the Kashmir Valley, in whom we had rested our hopes for finding the leaders of tomorrow, are being led into the drug habit. These young men are so completely swallowed by the vortex of addiction that no one knows when and where they will give up their souls. The drug habit is spreading at an alarming rate and if not arrested quickly enough, we will witness its impact on society as a whole. If it is not stopped in time, we will have nothing left to do but cry over the proverbial spilt milk.

The drug habit is so widespread that thousand of Kashmiri youths have become physically, psychologically and emotionally ill due to opium, hashish, heroin, cocaine, cannabis, brown sugar, and many other known and unknown drugs and mixtures. Not just this but many are addicted to pharmaceutical drugs, an addiction that is even more dangerous than the standard drugs. It is said that agencies first provide drugs to young people for free and then start to sell them once they get addicted. This is an alarming situation. Our investment in the future is being looted in many ways and if we do nothing to prevent it, not just us, but future generations, will be badly afflicted.

It is true that this problem is global. According to a recent report by the United Nations, the demand for drugs is greatest in Europe. Nearly 75% of the population there takes drugs in search of temporary refuge from stress and various other ailments. This is because their lack of calm has been bought at the cost of materialism. If we talk about the whole world, nearly 27 crore people are addicted to drugs. Under the aegis of the United Nations, the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking is celebrated on 26th June each year. That day is now approaching and in respect to it, seminars should be arranged and a discussion started on why it is the drug habit is spreading at such a fast rate, everywhere in the world. We need to discuss who are the facilitators and what needs to be done to stop this trend. A detailed framework for fighting this problem needs to be formulated, so that along with the rest of the world, our Kashmiri youth also emerges from this trouble.

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