Addiction has emerged as a national crisis. Though medicines are helpful in curbing drug addictions, a proper guidance, advice and awareness regarding ill-awareness of addiction are only lasting solutions to it, said Dr Shubham Atal, faculty member, MGM Medical college while addressing a seminar on ‘De-addiction and rehabilitation’ organized by Indore zonal office of the Narcotics Control Bureau under the De-addiction week being organized here from June 12 to 26 this month.
Shedding light on addiction and drug abuse scientifically, Dr Atal said the drug abuse has become so common these days that today it is being named as `Substance Abuse’ which means any substance which can be harmful to human being and which drives away a person from his normal life.
This has a very negative impact on social, physical life of the drug addicts. As a result of this, his dependency of drugs increases. Dr Atal said that a major problem among drug addicts that they fail to understand the difference between good and bad. The reason behind taking to drugs among the affluent section of people is fashion trends, peer pressure and weak will power. To treat such people, it is essential to understand their withdrawal symptoms, he said. The seminar was also addressed by Dhananjay Som, Superintendent, Narcotics Control Bureau, Mukesh Khatri, superintendent, Control Bureau of Narcotics, Puja Vardhan, assistant director, Press Information Bureau, district convenor of the Indore Nagar Suraksha Samiti, Ramesh Chandra among others.