Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Jharkhand organised an Anti-Drug Campaign for children in cooperation with K B Academy School, Ranchi with the aim that education can eradicate drug abuse among children here on Thursday.
The NCB, Jharkhand has organised many anti-drug campaign in different schools and colleges to educate and aware children to say no to drug consumption and selling because they believe that education will acknowledge children with the harmful effects of drugs abuse hence consider drug education vital.
Drug consumption and peddling has become city’s grave problem. According to the information provided by the Bureau of the State people of age group between 18-40 years fall prey to drug abuse. Marijuana is consumed in highest quantity by the State drug-abusers followed by brown sugar. Major drug hubs in the state are Ranchi, Bokaro, Dhanbad and Jamshedpur whereas whereas peddling centres are some in Jharkhand and some in Ara and Muzzafarpur, Bihar. In marijuana peddling business women are more involved.
“We are carrying out Awareness Programmes along with many NGOs in different part of the city including slums which has large number of dopers to acknowledge them with adverse effects of drugs,” said ST Akhtar, Intelligence Officer at the Narcotic Control Bureau. According to NCB officials drug abuse is always accompanied by crime and vice-versa.
There are a lot of incidences in which the major reason why the act of crime is practiced is related to drugs says people in the capital. “In the recent past our house battery was stolen so we went to the market where old batteries are sold there we found our battery through our source we reached the young man who was the thief once we reached to that man we got to know that he was brown sugar addict and to satiate the desire of drug he did that,” said Dr Aslam Parvez, K B School Academy Director.