Drug abuse tragedy
Your staff correspondent's graphical front-page report with photographs (May:26) illustrates real life horror at its worst. The unfortunate mother's statement about her drug addicted son depicts tragedy in real life. The family may have been driven to a corner, with no remedy at hand.
So a crime had to be done, to wash away another crime! With possibly no options the family was figuratively "at the horns of a dilemma", with no way out!
One however wonders if the family made any attempts to contact drug prevention agencies, both NGOs and the public institutions, for rehabilitation and found no solution to their son's problems. This is an unknown part of the story about which nothing was reported. However, whatever way one looks at it, drug abuse has this potential of destroying a family! This is one of the many destructive things that drug abuse can lead to!
Drug abuse is the worst destroyer and killer now becoming an epidemic in Bangladesh. Our efforts to counteract and overcome it are unfortunately feeble and not well organised. It will be a worthwhile public service if our readers can pen their suggestions and ideas in this page, to combat drug abuse. Such ideas are to be reasonable, pragmatic and fool-proof.
Based on these, a national guideline for curing drug related problems can be drawn. This needs the full support of the government and wide publicity across the media in collaboration with the government's publicity agencies. Maybe the information so decimated can prevent such further tragedies in the making! We must meet this challenge head-on to eliminate this social curse. The CTG should treat drug traders and their distribution chain with the harshest punitive measures. They harm our society far more than corrupt politicians and officials do. The government must stop drug trading forthwith. Death penalty for drug trade needs to be introduced and widely publicised, as a warning to discourage drug traders and their delivery chain mechanism.
Drug abuse, an unfortunate curse of modernity, has infiltrated our youth as a wrong example of high living and thrill seeking. Is it that with rapid growth of education and widespread awareness thanks to the TV, that this dangerous habit has also expanded? Drug abuse has led to increase in violence, crime and even traffic accidents. Has the growth of knowledge and awareness become a two-edged sword for our society? One wonders.
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