“EASY DEATH FOR 50 RS..!!”

13 August 2013:

‘I smoked heroin for a long, just long time, but I’m now habituated to inject this since two years coz it’s so cheap and fits my pocket’ -  Damodhar, 11 years.  A boy whose clothes appeared as if he was living by roadside and his eyes, it had only nausea and nausea. Few days later, he was found dead as his body had only beaten marks because he begged for money just to get himself injected with only drugs….

Few more from the lists:

• ‘Consuming Baygon for one year shattered my life. But, today I really cannot give it up because I’m addicted to it’- Mangesh, garbage-collector, 19 years.
• ‘I was initially not habituated to eat Vicks, but now since I’m doing my medicals, I need it frequently’- Prabhat, a medical student, 23 years.
• ‘I take 8 bottles of cough syrup daily’- Sudarshan, employee, 38 years.
• ‘To study hard, I have been consistent with the smoke usage practices that boosts my immune and keep me warm’-  Akshay, an engineering student, 24 years.
• ‘My regular tapri packed ‘Kharaa’ makes me busy in controlling the traffic’- Tiwari, a traffic police, 36 years.
• ‘I can’t live without discoursing the needle in my nerve picked from the filth with synthetic sedatives’-Pargat Singh, farmer, 40 years.

Now, what do you think, I must have presented this statistics? Well, these days death is as easy by spending just 50 Rupees. Yes! We are free to die with the growing use of narcotics and psychotropic prescribed drugs. Purchasing these drugs is as easy as buying cough syrup in the supermarket. Well, the medicines which cannot be given without prescription is sold at so cheap price that even a poor can afford it. What if I say that anti-depression tablets are also the attractive substitutes for illicit energy? Well energy and vitality have set many wrong examples to turn the lives of  many such 11 years old 'Damodhars'. People like: Pargat Singh in villages have been engaged in injecting themselves with the cocktails of synthetic drugs. Opium which is grown in villages has been a staple food of all 19 years old school-going boys. What can one say to this? No class, no society and no standard; rather people from every class and society have been sliding under the radar of prescribed drug usages….

What about their families and communities? Is life so easily given only at the rate of Rs 50? Well, people who are frustrated and tired with their lives have been sarcastically getting trapped in this dirty alley. Talking about the pharmaceutical drugs they are cleaner, more reliable and more easily available. Chemists sell the set of three drugs along with two syringes and needles for only 50 Rs. Well almost all the experts agree on the magnitude of the problem, but finding an alternative for this problem is bit challenging. We like experimenting and therefore experimenting with the prescribed drugs will have more fun, lose weight, fit-in, and also to study. Some people may think that prescribed drugs are safer and less addictive then street drugs just because mom, dad or sisters have already used it. But, they are only safe to the individuals who have prescriptions made for them. Talking about liquors, so 110 pounds of heroin and hundred bottles of bootleg liquor was seized in a village of India. Every day is a tough fight rather. Let’s talk about engineers and Doctors, they eat drugs in the forms of ‘Vicks’ and  ‘Iodex’. What can one say? If we are talking about bright futures, we must not forget that these elements have been an essential element in increasing scores on the marksheets.

Statistics reveal that there has been 9.4% increase in the death rates for the past year 2013. Just consider what survey will this current 2014 year bring? It’s worth telling that people have been addicted with the high usage of injecting practices and shared contaminated syringes. This has helped in the increase of infections like: HIV and hepatitis C, bscesses, tissue necrosis, gangrene, decreased respiratory function, coma, heart failure or seizures and nerve paralysis and sometimes even death. Even abruptly stopping them or even reducing them can cause serious risk of health problems. People who have been addicted to take several high doses are facing even worst conditions. Well, this situation can be seen when you see advertisements and trailers of those drugs on television screens. Is this the end line or should I say the lifeline? Anything it can be, but this drug trafficking is increasing at an accelerated pace. The consequences are irresistible and we are shameless to see how people are struggling to live.

Rehabs and drug treatment sectors have been helping people to deal with all the existing problems of drug abuse. Even Doctors have been helping all those victims to solve their unquenchable abuses. Adding to this, there is also an urge to establish the codes of conducts and end all those unethical practices that have been encountering criminal offence by selling drugs at the rate of 50 Rs. It’s our life; a better today will decide a better tomorrow! So, there is really a need to stop this excessive activity and always remember that this problem can be very effectively tackled as well. 

“This was not an end of 11 years old Damodhar.I would surely plead those people who have been trapped in the dark circle of poverty, addiction, violence and lost dreams not to opt for these attempts because like his life took wrong turn, then we’ll surely have few more to be added on  in our coming tomorrows”….!! 

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