Police: A Savior to Drug Addicts

Since independence, our society is been ingested up by abuses like drug addiction, cyber crimes, sexual assaults, gambling etc to a great extent. Above all, Drugs are the termites for our India. The fragmentation of old joint family system, absence of parental love, process of industrialization, urbanization has led to an increased number of drug trafficking and addiction among youth which has taken a frog leap in our country. Drugs have been classified as an EPIDEMIC by Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Now it’s time for our Indian Police to act like aardwolf to eradicate these termites and makes the addiction free nation. Police (public officers for legal investigations and criminal emergencies) is the most perceptible officials in the criminal justice system that is charged with preventing crime and enforcing the law. This paper focuses on those preventive measures that can be taken by Indian Police to curb drug-addiction from the society. Evidences about the effectiveness of drug education, role plays, awareness campaigns, motivational workshops and extra-curricular activities are discussed which can be considered as nullifiers to obliterate drug abuse. Besides other states in India, Punjab has come under the red alert zone in drug trafficking and addiction. According to 2011 Report on drug abuse and alcoholism in Punjab by Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, 40% of Punjabi youth of age group 15-25 years have fallen to drug-addiction. The literature referred in this paper includes qualitative and quantitative research studies on preventive measures taken in various parts of India which can be of great help to Police in encouraging the land of five rivers that is Punjab, to swipe the flood of drugs from its roots. Laws regarding the drug prevention, counseling programs and their adaptability by the society have also been studied.