I wonder when the drug menace will engulf the Tricity as the neighbouring countryside of which the Tricity is the capital has hordes of drug addicts and corresponding deaddiction centres. The reasons why drugs have not yet become a fashion here yet are because the policing is a little better here, families are more educated, families have access to support structures and timely detection and treatment centres AND THE PEOPLE IN POWER RESIDE HERE and want to curb the drug menace to safeguard their own families.
But the drug menace has its own way of making its presence felt sooner than later as political institutions crumble and morality/ethics degenerate.
This menace can only be curbed if
1 Detection and treatment both become easy, cheap and accessible plus
2 Prevention happens at source and
3 There is political will to root it out from the countryside itself (which is a tall order considering that keeping a man addicted is the only way to have bonded labour as our labour laws and their enforcement machinery do not allow the employer to exist in a satisfactory manner and run their businesses).
Maybe our local office of the narcotics control bureau has some information on the quality and cost of treatment of the deaddiction centres in the city and the states. or this information is available with the various think tanks such as the CRRID or departments of the educational institutions
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