Drug novel

Drug Addiction

Drugs are ugly monsters that are sapping and sucking all the energy and lifeblood of the young people. They are turning homes into hell where youth grows pale specter-thin and dies. Thus they have become the most horrible danger for the modern world. A few years back only the developed countries were facing the problem of drug addiction among the people. But now it is spreading in the developing also. In Pakistan more than 30 million people are drug addicts 80 percent of whom are from among the youth.

Drug is a medicine that is basically used to cure a disease or soothe a patient. But when it is used freely and frequently without medical advice it becomes as it intoxicates its user. People take to them within a few days. Some people start taking them as fun but soon fell a prey to their addiction. But mostly people take to them because of their mental worries caused by unemployment sexual perversion protracted illness or some financial or social problem.

The effects of drug addiction are horrible. It clutches its prey forever and makes him totally in the society. He becomes unable to earn his livelihood. He uses different methods including theft and murder to get money so that he may buy heroin or some other drug. It mars his health. It affects the mind and paralyses it. He is no more a normal human being. He forgets his status. Duties responsibilities and even himself. He is ruined and with him his family is also ruined. Drug addicts are usually escapists who do not have the courage to face the realities of life. They lose their will power and are not able o abandon it. They don’t want to be cured even when they know that drug addiction is killing them.

Many political figures have their links with the drug mafia or are themselves involve din the business. Drug barons openly used money in financing election campaigns of political parties and individual politicians who return the favor by extending an umbrella of protection to the drug business and its notorious traffickers.

To crab this course the government should take stringent and strict measures. Drug addiction should be treated as a disease which needs to by cured. It is a medical psychiatric and sociological problem and government should make arrangement to solve this problem on these lines. Drug addicts should be treated in government hospitals where specialists be appointed to look into the causes of drug addiction. Drug traffickers should be awarded death sentence and all their property should be confiscated. The political parties should also purge their ranks of drug barons and from a united front against the entry of dubious characters into the assemblies.