Menace of Drugs - Solutions
Listed below are the key Solutions as identified by you to address the Root Causes for the menace of Drugs.
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Rajendra Pratap Gupta
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Drug Menace – Solutions
1. A strong anti-narcotic law should be brought into effect
2. The anti-narcotics department should be strengthened on people, controls, process and systems front
3. Citizens should be engaged through the enablement of easy reporting about sales of drugs/drug rackets
4. The intelligence network should be beefed-up
5. Classes should be held in school and colleges, telling children about the ill-effects of using drugs
6. Having a counsellor in schools and college should be made mandatory
7. Counselling helplines should be started to help people start the process of de-addiction
8. Harsh punishment should be given to the people involved in drug trafficking
9. Glamourizing the use of drugs should be banned in movies
10. Borders with countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan etc. should be strictly guarded to prevent smuggling of the contrabands
11. Government officers found to be a part of this nexus should face criminal proceedings
12. Illegal opium farming in different parts of India should be curtailed with the help of local police
13. Awareness campaigns should be done telling people about the ill-effect of using drugs
14. NGOs should be pulled in to work in this area in partnership with the Government
Drug Menace – Issues and Root Causes
1. People are increasingly starting to use drugs
2. People as young as school kids are falling prey to this addiction
3. A lot of children start using drugs under peer pressure
4. People frustrated due to non-availability of jobs and other social drawbacks get easily drawn towards drugs
5. Organised gangs operating the business in towns and villages
6. Drug peddlers make good money out of it so they try to sell more
7. Some drugs are easily available on the streets including places like Paan shops
8. People blindly ape the west
9. Using drugs is glamourized by the movie industry
10. Drugs are easily smuggled from the neighbouring countries
11. Caught drug peddlers bribe the police and get let off
12. The counselling system in schools and colleges is weak
13. There has always been a nexus between drug mafia and government officials
14. Poor intelligence in tracking the network of drug suppliers
15. Illegal opium farming within country
16. Lack of awareness within society regarding ill effects of using drugs
17. Taking drugs is a status symbol among the ultra-rich more