The stories about youth, mostly students living at hostels, keeping heroine are slowly emerging; some of these stories have made it to the news, some have been silenced while most of these activities are still being carried out escaping the outsider’s eyes.
Without a doubt, this matter requires substantial consideration and concern. The harmful effects these drugs can inflict on our health are well recorded. Most of the youth indulges itself in such noxious activities to represent a certain lifestyle that personifies a carefree attitude towards life. Since there is no such inspection at off-campus hostels and apartments, these students who are in the springtime of their life, find these locations as a perfect place to hide and hover these drugs fearlessly.
Drug consumption and trafficking for years has been very active in Pakistan and has managed to escape the wiretap but the news about educated students also becoming a part of it, is indeed new and alarming. Just like the addiction, it’s spread is persistent; serious surveillance measures have to be taken to stop the escalation of this problem.
HASSNAIN QASIM
Islamabad
