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Tackling drug menace in the Sikh state of Punjab.

Addressing a panel discussion after the screening of Reema Anand's documentary on drug addiction "Punjab: The enemy within" at the Chandigarh Press Club, Dua pleaded for saving the energetic Punjabis from decay caused by drugs.

Equating the syringes shown in the documentary to missiles that were destroying society, Dua said they were the symbols of death as over 50 per cent of the youth of Punjab had fallen prey to them.

"In fact, liquor is the first step to addiction in Punjab," Anand told mediapersons after the screening of the documentary. Drugs were the slow poison that effected the entire family and society and grandparents and parents are today fighting this enemy within in Punjab, she said.

The influx of the migratory labour had left the rural Punjabi youth with hardly any work. “With no work, they take to drugs and are ruining their lives,” she said.

Even the NRI money being pumped into Punjab was responsible for the sorry state of affairs and goes a long way in pushing the youths to drugs, she added.

Dr Jatinder Jain, DIG (Bathinda range), regretted that there was no national policy to tackle the drug menace. Criminal neglect on the part of the parents was the basic cause of the children taking to drugs, he claimed.

Sharing Dr Jain's sentiments, Dr Deepinder Singh from Ludhiana, regretted that society seemed to have accepted the use of drugs. Awareness, prevention and treatment were essential parts of the any strategy to tackle the menace, he added.

Prabhjot Singh, senior journalist, who moderated the discussion, said the connivance of the politicians and the police with the drug mafia had virtually led to the mushrooming of a parallel economy in the state and only a mass movement against drug addiction could save the present and future generations.

Meanwhile, the documentary showed heart-rending scenes of the farmers consuming poppy husk and youngsters puncturing their veins with syringes.

Premiered at Los Angeles in 2006, the documentary makes a mention of the rural population in Punjab, particularly in Malwa hooking onto "bhukki" (poppy husk) which had become the poor man's addiction and smack and heroin being used by the richer sections of society in urban areas.

“Punjabis struggled hard to fight with Central Government in the past but now they are up against a enemy within,” the narrator said in the documentary underlining the nexus between politicians-police-drug mafia.

http://www.sikhnet.com/sikhnet/news.nsf/Ne...725738C0067EC1E

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we got to stop the drugs from comming into the punjab also educating kids on the dangers and the parants, alot of these guys are spoiled rotton ive seen it with my own eyes in india, parants don't give them work, their given loads of cash, no responsibility's, then they wonder why their kid is so into alchole and drugs and dropping out of school.

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A person who is commited to something has not time to waste.

"Idle hands are the devils workshop" - Mr. Adlam ( My Grade 6 teacher hehe :s )

gotta agree with that!

minds bored and wants to do something...try something new...nd before u know it u addicted

to add what i have seen in punjab...its funny to me...everyone knows who sells drugs and who comes there to buy it. in pinds and cities everyone knows whos taking some but the saddest part...all they do is Gossip, which guru sahib tells us not to do, rather thn taking action or helping the family or the person. the community... values punjab used to have izt there anymore. two decades ago..there if a kid did something and anyone found out about it...they would confront the person or have the elders of the family take care of it(beat or put some sense into um). everyone ..EVERYONE IN A PIND(even the workers/Naukers/servicemen/women) wouldnt hide it or only gossip about it but tell the elder about the wrong doings of their son or daughter (usually son..cuz they were more out going thn the girls). and things were taken care of. yes some were kicked out of the families for doing such thing...thats the price u paid for doing something stupid/shameful and thn repeating it. def sharab wasnt one of the things in man familys that cause such probs, cuz sharb is and was considered ok but smoking or doing drugs etc werent tolerated.

responsibility, accountability, mutual respect... is missing, and we becoming more selfish=(

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