Drug addiction
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A study of the Department of Narcotic Control of Bangladesh reveals that nearly 40% students between the age of 15 and 30 in our educational institutions have taken to different forms of drug and other crimes. According to the study, both female and male medical students are more addicted to drugs as they have easy access to pharmaceutical products. The study also unveils that most of the addicted students justify their addictions with depression as they live in hostels having limited opportunity for recreation and too stressed with their studies. Other reasons being very limited or no extracurricular activities, emotional issues, smoking-habits, peer pressure, curiosity, maintaining status in friends' circle, unemployment etc. This is an extremely harmful disease that will cripple our future generation. The percentage is dreadful and if we fail to take effective measures in time the menace will keep on spreading and the result is not too difficult to imagine. The DU VC has opined that the effective remedy to divert them from this vicious cycle is to involve them in different pursuits, and one eminent psychologist has advised appointing psychologists at educational institutions. It is the duty of everyone in the society including the people in power to come forward to arrest the evil. And we must remember that, “Whatever misfortune befalls us it is because of the things our hands have wrought and for many (of them) He grants forgiveness”. So, it is our duty to find the remedy.
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