The increasing addiction rate in India.

In this article we are going to discuss on:

1. Why do people have addiction?
2. Why is India falling into it?
3. What can be done?

Have you ever wondered and looked around you into your colleagues lives if you look closer you can see all of them doing some kind of addictive substance even some them are even banned from ingestion. Then the question arises why and how is this happening?

These days the drugs and other addictive materials have become part of more than 50% of India’s population and mostly youth and when this happens a question arises into our minds that why? Why do people get addicted to the drugs or even the nicotine or any other scheduled drugs?

The answer lies inside the lives of an indian household. For that we have to delve deeper into the students’ lives let’s take an example of a hosteller.

When a student gets into a hostel he has no one to see to or to guide to all he has is a bunch of seniors who pave the way for the drugs. It usually starts with just a cigarette. In the start it gives you a sensation of being high but soon it becomes a necessity rather than a tool to get high so students start trying something harder. In which they get into cannabis. The seniors guide them to be the best medicine but what they don’t tell is that the marijuana they are having is full of chemicals and does more harm than good.

If the students does not have the money to buy such products they seem to tend to have the cheap addictive things like :-

• Petrol sniffing
• Cannabis balls
• Diluter sniffing

These things give a sensation of hallucination but the thing is some of them are carcinogen and you feel them entering your bloodstream as soon as you start doing it.

India is falling into this mess because of 3 major reasons:

1. Humans get bored easily with time and want an escape from the concrete jungle and this seems to be the right way to do so.
2. It’s not a bed of roses, It can take turns which you wouldn’t want to have and to release the pressure from that we get high.
3. It’s human nature to challenge rules. Humans always want to have a kick in their life and that adrenaline rush comes when we do something out of the ordinary which is either not allowed by society or by the government and in the case of marijuana and other Schedule I and IV substances.

The solutions for it :

1. Parents should be more open to their children about the side-effects of the controlled substances.
2. You might find it absurd but according to a study done in Portugal where the controlled substances were legalised the consumption rate decreased drastically.
3. The seniors should also have some responsibilities towards the juniors and their habits.
4. The parents should also put a great example in front of their offspring such that they know the thin line between good and bad.

The problem to us is huge but it’s not something to put dirt on and move on but we need to look at this problem and solve it.

Courage is not in overlooking the problem but to face it with the same intensity and find solutions to it. We should accept that we can make mistakes but that is what makes us human if not we would be called god !!