CHANDIGARH: The northern Indian state of Punjab faces a new challenge drugs the intake of which has shown a steep rise in the last couple of years.
“Drug abuse has become a major public health problem in the Stale requiring urgent attention of medical as well as voluntary institutions,” according to Maj Gen P’S Gill (Retd), secretary Punjab Red Cross society, a voluntary organization which has mounted a campaign against the menace. Gill said the intake of drugs and alcoholism was not a new phenomenon in Punjab but their intake had increased manifold in the last couple of years. “Reason for the rising menace is a sum total of environment created by frustrated youth, militancy, general moral weakness and peer pressure,” he said.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 6, 1991
