From Feat to Failure

The growing distress among youngsters in Kashmir is provoking them to take severely toxic decisions. Their most common decisions are led by suicidal thoughts and intoxicated behavior. It is evident that most drug abusers are adolescents and young adults aged between seventeen years and mid-thirties. The swarming population of abusers at rehabilitation centers in public hospitals and specific recovery centers receives abnormally increasing numbers daily. Youths in Kashmir fail to regulate their lives in a peaceful manner. Their ways deviate from feat to failure. Secondary emotions overcome their primary concerns, therefore, the catastrophe of toxic substance grips them. Lately, it was reported that the most commonly taken addictive substance among abusers is heroin. Youngsters fall prey to the first dose and persist with the second and countless other doses unless rescued by families or friends. Raising money by illegal means, say theft or murder, especially, has become an obvious day-to-day matter. Drug peddlers and dealers have not only reached colleges but high schools also. Liquor is commonly sold and bought on streets steering their minds to adopt immorality. Such activities are solely responsible to ruin the future of youth and enhance their suffering. Drug abusers must be rescued and rehabilitated while the peddlers must be booked and penalized for misleading youngsters. Counseling sessions may help society in understanding young minds at homes and educational institutions and establishing sources of peace and happiness among them. Adopting security measures to save youth and keep them from hazardous actions may help the valley flourish.