The major cities of India are in the grip of the drug menace. This devastating vice finishes off the addicts by debilitating them physically and psychologically. A seminar on Drug Abuse held recently in Madras has painted a horrible picture of this malady. The most disturbing fact is that the university campuses, college premises and…
Substance abuse is very common among Indian children and teenagers. For inhalants, opioids, and cannabis, the “proportion of minors between 10 and 17 years to adults between 18 and 75 years” is of the order of 2.02, 0.85, and 0.27, respectively, according to the recently released “magnitude of substance use in India” report. It has…
Substance addiction isn’t a thing that is new to India. However, with the advent of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, (NDPS Act) in 1985 India took a step closer to removing this fast-developing trouble which has been regarded to consume countries like Mexico or even the USA. With the assist of this Act…
We all are familiar with the two faces of coin i.e. heads and tails similarly, the world is developing from the one face and getting devastated on another. Drugs is something which plays a very lead role in this mishap. Drug is that substance or medicine which easily gets mix with the blood of consumer…
Cannabis smoking in India has been known since at the least 2000 BC and is first noted withinside the Atharvaveda, which dates lower back some hundred years BC. Cannabis and its derivatives (weed, marijuana, bhang, charas, ganja, and numerous different names are used to explain product of cannabis plant) have been legally offered in India…
DRUG ABUSE AMONG YOUTHThe abuse of drug has become an international problem. Almost every country nowadays is facing the menace of drug abuse. Whether it is America, the most powerful country or it is India, one of the developing countries, the problem bothers both alike. The evil is increasing by leaps and bounds in the…
The teen years consist of a series of challenges for everyone. For some though, those challenges can quickly change from conquerable to overpowering, and this can lead to some serious issue for teens. Once teens enter high school, they are bombarded with the pressures of maintaining good grades, engaging in extracurriculars, getting ready for college, having…
The Gujarat Prohibition Act, 1949 is being challenged before the Gujarat High Court, more than seven decades after it came into effect as the Bombay Prohibition Act. About the act: It was introduced by the then Bombay province as Bombay Prohibition Act, 1949 to overhaul the law relating to intoxicating drugs and narcotics total prohibition. …
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) is an intelligence agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. The agency is tasked with combating drug trafficking and the use of illegal substances under the provisions of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. It is responsible for coordination with the Indian state governments and other central…
The advent of technology in every sphere life aided the human kind to an extent. This initiation by the tech world also cast its light on the criminal world which in result forced the criminal justice system to cope up with the requirements of contemporary world. Narco Analysis Test in nothing but the progeny of…
