The Drug Menace amongst the Youth of Today
As the whole world entered a new millennium and celebrated the setting of a new dawn, one corner that still remains dark and ignored is the increasing menace of drug addiction amongst the youth of today.
The problem has attained epidemic proportions with many people from all strata’s of the-society, across the globe taking to drugs. It is a means of escape from the tensions and trauma in-our day-to-day lives, that seem to be only increasing with the ballooning population and, hence, competition.
The problem Is even grave amongst adolescents and teenagers who are the edifice of any society. A major cause for their addiction to -drugs is peer pressure and insistent friends who make drugs a fashion statement.
The addicted person is a patient whose life becomes a total wreck. He is isolated by the society which embitters him even further and he takes to anti-social activities. Apart from being extremely injurious to health, drugs cause mental trauma to the friends and relatives of the addict.
The problem has been there and glaring at us in our faces for a long time now. What we need is a conscious and concerted effort at eradicating it. Instead of ostracizing and branding the addicts, we must create a support system to help them overcome their urge and be accepted by the society. Apart from this more rehabilitation units should be opened for the addicts to relieve their stress. Such measures can ensure a society free of drug addicts and only then the light of .dawn would be able to remove all darkness.
