Remember the Nirbhaya gangrape? It all started with two friends sitting down over drinks. If you revisit and retrace some of the most horrific crimes in our country, you will see an alarming truth emerging-the most gruesome crimes have been committed under the influence of alcohol or drugs.This is not to say that merely drinking caused someone to rape a woman, or kill someone. But the criminal mind who is gripped by the power of
Dr Vipul Rastogi, Psychiatrist at Medanta hospital, says such people are usually not in control of their actions. Imagine the eventuality if these people are allowed to roam the streets freely!
They pose a threat to their own lives, and that’s by choice, but they pose a bigger threat to society. Here’s how:
1) Children, between the age of 16-17 years, using injectible drugs are exposing themselves to a life of crime, antisocial behaviour and severe drug abuse 2) These drugs do not come cheap, so either their parents are giving them lots of money without accounting in their expenditure patterns or worse they are stealing from their own homes to fund their habits, that is going completely unnoticed by their parents/relatives. 3) All these children are appearing for final board exams and with not much regard for them, one wonders what life has in store for them 4) Injectible drug use without proper care or awareness ie – sharing needles can lead to
(Image source: riverbankhouse.net)