NC Govt is sleepwalking into a drug disaster: Purnima Sharma

Every Day of NC's Silence Is Another Life Lost: Purnima on Drug menace rise in J&K

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users across the Union raises serious questions about its will and capacity to protect its own youth.

JAMMU, DEC 01 Jammu & Kashmir Territory, including 1.68 lakh minors, many still in school, and noted that more than 95,000 young people are dependent on opioids, mainly heroin, one of the most dangerous addictions known.

Purnima Sharma said on Monday, issuing a scathing criticism of NC government has shown no urgency, no accountability and absolutely no follow-through in combating the crisis. She added that in the last three years alone, over 25,000 addicts had to be enrolled in OPD and IPD services, reflecting how the drug menace in J&K has now crossed all red lines, and rapidly drug dependence is spreading across the Valley and Jammu region.