Awareness programme
Source: The Sangai Express
Thoubal, January 05 2014:
The Nehru Yuva Kendra Thoubal organised a one day awareness programme on prevention of substance abuse and alcoholism at Huidrom Maning Leikai United Club Hall with Okram Bijen Singh, Member, Wangkhem Gram Panchayat as president.
The programme was attended by 45 youths of the locality.
Ch Basanta Singh, DPO, NYK Thoubal appealed the youths of the district to join hands in fighting against the drugs and alcohol use in the district.
He said that the present day youths are using drugs like narcotics, stimulants, divergence, hallucinogens, solvents and cannabis for mood swings.
Bordering with golden triangle, the second largest drug producing country, Manipur becomes the transit route which makes the youths for easy accessibility of the illegal drugs.
Substance like Erase-X, Cough Syrup, dendrite, N10, SP tablet etc are widely abused by the adolescents and youths through peer pressure or as a fashion.
He appealed the youths present in the awareness programme to capacitate them to say, "NO" to drugs.
For this the NYK is organising youth leadership and capacity building training for the youth section of the society.
He also appealed the youth club leaders to take active role in prevention of the substance abuse.
Combining addiction treatment, medications with behavioral therapy will help in improving the normal life for those substance abusers and addicts.