Drug abuse: A dangerous shadow over Jammu and Kashmir
The HinduApril 29, 2023 12:15 am | Updated June 05, 2023 08:04 pm IST / repeat shuffle Thirty-eight-year-old Kamran Ahmad from Srinagar still gets goosebumps when he recalls the events that unfolded in the summer of 2022. “Substance use and poor mental health have a bidirectional impact,” says Dr. Yasir Rather, an Associate Professor at the Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences-Kashmir. “In comparison to the rest of India where female substance use is dominant with alcohol use, in the current study female drug use is completely overshadowed by injection heroin use,” it pointed out. “There are incidents of drug addicts manipulating urine samples,” Dr. Khan says. In Srinagar, 52 drug peddlers were arrested under the PSA last year, and a process has been initiated to seal the houses of “notorious peddlers,” says an official.
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