DRUG ADDICTION

Drug addiction is, now-a-days, one of the greatest problems. It is not only our national problem but also an international problem. It is spreading so rapidly that all programs have failed to resist it.

Drug addiction means strong attraction for a thing that has an exciting action. It makes a man intoxicated. Addiction is taking tea and coffee, drinking wine and smoking. Drug addiction is more than this.

The drug like opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin etc. are usually used in a measured way as medicine to cause sleep or relieve pain. These drugs have intoxicating and stimulating effects. They have a great attractive power. If a person takes one of them twice or thrice, he may be addicted. If he is addicted once, it is very hard for him to get rid of its clutch. This sort of addiction has a terrible reaction in the body. It makes a man feel sleepy. He loses his normal sense and feels and abnormal state of excitement. He loses appetite and feels severe headache. He is clumsy in movement and unbalanced in talking. The continual ultimately leads a man to death.

Drug addiction is a curse. Young people who keep bad associations may easily be addicted, frustration is the main cause of it. Frustration may come from unemployment problem, lack of love and affection, lack of family ties, severe poverty etc.

Governments, politicians, thinkers, social workers, doctors and others of the world are thinking for the safety of the drug addicted people. It is an acute problem. It is not a very easy task to find out remedy for it. Drug business should be put an end by enforcing death sentence for the accused. Parents should bring their children up with much love and affection. They should give them moral lessons. Effective measures should be adopted by the Government to solve the unemployment problem of the country.

Drug addiction is more dangerous than cancer. So everybody in the country should be aware of its far-reaching effect.