Drug Addiction
Outline:
1. Introduction: Drug is a kind of intoxication.
2. Large number of young addicts.
3. Function of drugs.
4. 'Kinds of drugs
5. Drug producing countries. Consumption of drugs.
6. How young people become addicts.
7. Measures to control drug addiction.
8. Conclusion: Let us say NO to drugs:
Drug is any substance that induces sleep or insensibility. Therefore, drug addiction means being addicted to use drugs. Drug addiction is spoiling, rather, ruining millions of young men all over the world. Even in Pakistan thousands of young boys and girls fall victim to drug addiction. Drug addiction incapacitates a person. He becomes a liability or a burden upon his family. Addiction leads to his gradual, but miserable death.
Drugs produce numbness or unconsciousness or deep sleep. But, on the other hand, there are also some drugs by using which a person cannot steep. As a matter of fact, drugs are only meant for medical use. They relieve pain. But their large-scale consumption is not only harmful but also illegal. They are also misused by smugglers and criminals for their nefarious designs.
There are various kinds of drugs; some of which produce physical addiction and some produce mental addiction. Opium and heroin produce physical addiction, while cocaine and marijuana cause mental addiction. Many people use Painkillers which are produced from morphine, which is extracted from opium. The doctors also prescribe sedatives or tranquillizers to the patients who need relief but their excessive use is injurious to health.
Drugs are produced mainly in two belts of Asia: the "Golden Triangle" and the Golden Crescent". The Golden Triangle consists of Thailand, Laos and Burma while the Golden Crescent comprises Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. In Pakistan, opium and heroin are produced in NWFP. Although, time and again the government tries its best to control its growth and has even destroyed the crops, but still it is cultivated.
From these areas, opium, heroin and marijuana are smuggled in large quantity to western countries like U.S.A., Canada, France and Britain, etc. where these are consumed on a large scale. Mexico is also one of the major drug-producing countries of the world.. U.S.A. is ever ready to arrest and prosecute any person of any nationality, who tries to smuggle drugs-into her territory, but cannot control its consumption.
Young people fall easy victims to drugs. They are spoiled by bad company. First of all, they start smoking just out of fashion. Then they try to fill their cigarettes with opium or heroin and thus gradually turn to be addicts. Moreover, drug mafia uses various tricks to induce the people to make them addicts. They try to sell heroin in various forms and by various methods. They lure the needy and the indigent youth to sell heroin on attractive terms. Once a young man is trapped, only death can disassociate him from their fold. Drug injections are also used to make people addicts. Once a person becomes an addict, he can never escape it. Only strong will-power and iron determination can rid him of this evil.
All the countries of the world, including Pakistan, are trying their best to control this menace, Drug addicts and drug traffickers are heavily sentenced in some countries. In China and Saudi Arabia, they are sentenced to death; but still drug addicts and drug trafficking are on the increase. The evident reason is the fact that drug pushers run in millions. They are prepared to go to any extent to safeguard their interests. A joint effort on the part of the U.N. and other international agencies is needed to eliminate this scourge.
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