India on a 'high' with 7 drug addiction related suicides every day

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India on a 'high' with 7 drug addiction related suicides every day

HT Data Team, Hindustan Times New Delhi, November 05, 2014

First Published: 18:05 IST(5/11/2014) | Last Updated: 19:29 IST(5/11/2014)

Letters and pleas of the common man has made Prime Minister Narendra Modi sit up and address the rising menace of drug addiction in the country.

Modi on Tuesday touched upon the issue on a radio programme "Mann ki Baat" and invited views from people and NGOs on how to deal with the problem of drug abuse.

Modi also mentioned on the programme that many people wrote to him regarding the problem in a series of tweets on his official Twitter account.

He had said youth are the asset of the country and the nation cannot afford to see them falling to drug abuse.

"The issues I touch are the ones on which government comes under attack. But how long will we hide things? For good intent, the truth has to be spoken and I will keep doing it," he said.

He had said the government has a responsibility to address social problems like drug addiction and it will create an environment in this regard.

So, how tough is his challenge?

Statistics reveal that at least 25,426 people committed suicide due to drug and addiction related problems in the last 10 years across India. This comes down to an average 2,542 suicides every year, 211 per month and 7 per day.

Appalling truth is that suicides due to drug related problems exceed dowry, poverty and money related suicides in India in most of the last 10 years.





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