TIWN
AGARTALA, May 25 (TIWN): If not cocaine, heroin, brown sugar or hashish, more and more adolescents and youth in and around the city are falling prey to a different type of addiction. Taking advantage of easy availability and affordability, there is a growing trend to get addicted to habit-forming drugs (HFD) in the form of cough syrups, painkillers and tranquillizers.
Enquiries by TIWN revealed that in some cases, the medicines are sold without prescriptions in the medical shops by charging more than the recommended price. Due to laxity in strict enforcement by the Drug Control Administration's `No pill without bill' campaign in which the mentioning of doctor and patient's names along with batch of manufacturing and expiry date has been made mandatory. Some shops sell the products falling in HFD category to adolescents and youths
It is the craze to have a `kick' and experience excitement and euphoria for some time that is forcing the youth to increase the dosages. In the process, they develop immunity to the drugs. There are also cases wherein for experiencing the `kick,' they develop constipation and neurological disorders
Proper counseling is very important for the patients as well as their family members at the time of de-addiction. "We have several cases where the patients are completely cured through de-addiction. To overcome withdrawal symptoms, we give medicines and after sometime, they become all right," adds Dr. Bhowmik.
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