Pakistan is today notorious for many things, but in the last 20 years, drug production and addiction has increasingly become one of them. The use of legal and illegal drugs has a long history in Pakistan.
Today, Pakistan is not only one of the main exporters of heroin; it has also become a net importer of drugs. It is estimated that about 50 tons of opium are smuggled into Pakistan for processing heroin for domestic use. The current trend of substance abuse among youth and especially school age children is troubling. This terrible trend is growing in women also. Many fingers have been pointed at the youth themselves while at the same time ignoring the very people who support the youths drug habits, and wantonly purvey rot among the youth.
The height of societal breakdown and decadence comes when the older generation fails to live up to their responsibility and duty of guiding the younger generation. Drug peddlers and barons are increasingly targeting the youth, a symbol of freshness and revolution, for money and for their mental derangement. It is pitiful that drug peddlers lead the youth into temptations through advertisement and glamour. They totally ruin the physical and mental skill of the young people.
These drug peddlers have no regard for the consequences of their bloodied actions. Many youths have committed suicide in the malicious tents of pathological drug abuse, and not being able to distinguish the concords of life from the discords.
Currently, drugs ranging from alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, cocaine, heroin to hashish and many others are readily available to young children and the youth among the university and college in Pakistan. These portend a great economic problem to the majority of the third world where development aspirations are generally pegged on manpower and expertise, which is currently wanted in these countries.
Our youth are dying morally, socially, psychologically and physically from drug abuse and addiction. The duty of parents in looking after their youth has also come into serious focus here. Before anything else, parental care is the most important control and preventive measure against drug abuse and addiction. The parents should do enough to guide and be with their children at all times.
KIRAN TAHIR
Lahore
Hi there Kiran, Very interesting article and details which are educative. I will be very glad if you shed some light as to the extent of university students and colleges. What is their perception and how does the society react to it now that the media is portraying different cultures and ideologies which were once things not to have been thought would once be able to penetrate this orient society
HAVE A NICE DAY AND A BETTER NIGHT
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