DRUG ADDICTION 

Drug addiction has become a common malady in the country. In the Western countries, the intake of wine has assumed alarming proportions. In India people have become more and more addicted to drugs.  In the west 90 % of the people take wine regularly with religious punctuality. Besides, the modern age is an age of fever and fret, hurry and worry and tension. Life has become very fast. Men are busy in the rat race for making more and more money. Capitalistic societies are full of tensions and conflicts. People try to forget their tension and worries in drinks and drugs... Drugs are not medicines available with chemists for curing patients. They are hard intoxicants. They are mainly manufactured in the west. But they are sold and consume in almost all countries of the world. The addiction to drugs is growing at an alarming rate. 

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Every social reformer and every state government is deeply concerned with the eve effects of the drugs. Drug addicts become lazy and inactive. The G.N.P. goes down and the drug - addicted people can never rise above the poverty line. Therefore it is the bound lusty of a welfare state to check the production and distribution of drugs among t people. Government's policy of wine no doubt proved a colossal failure. Similarly if the government bans the production of harmful drugs the smugglers bring them illegal from foreign countries. But government must take stringent measures against those violate the law. Government should also carry out intensive propaganda against enlace of drugs through its media. People must be made aware that the taking of drug full. The problem should be viewed with the same gravity and seriousness. Drug addiction is a serious evil bordering on crime. Hence public opinion needs to be aroused and enlightened about its evil effects. Through press, lectures, social reforms and seminars, people should be educated on the harmful effects of taking drugs. People should be made to realize that drug taking is not merely a social crime, but to the ruination of the individual.

  It has been rightly said that the child is father of the man. Impressions received by a child in his early life shape the future man. The family is the best training ground. If the parents are smokers and drug addicts, the children fall an easy prey to this addiction. It is the foremost duty of parents to keep their children away from the use of drugs and intoxicants. Those parents who are not drug addicts will generally exercise a healthy influence on their children and they will not resort to drug taking. Children should be taught early in life how drug taking and wine led to the downfall of empires and families. Drunkards and lecherous kings did nothing to improve the lot of their subjects and they provoked revolts in their own countries. Intensive propaganda can be carried out in the classroom by giving the students training in moral and spiritual education.

Substances of religious books must be brought home to the people so that they understand the value of holy books and their teachings. Children should be persuaded early to understand that it is deleterious for the health of a nation if its citizens take drugs. Our leaders who are supposed to be Gandhi an in outlook should not be seen drinking in public or in five star hotels. They should set examples in Spartan simplicity and austerity. So far as living styles are concerned, people should not get the impression that their leaders are wearing masks. Their private and public lives should be like open books for people to study. The use of drugs should also not be depicted in films. Sometimes women with buxom bodies are shown taking drugs and resorting to sex in films. They also have a harmful effect on the minds of the young. The message of simplicity, sobriety and temperance should be given to the younger generation.