Drug addiction

A few days ago, the Prothom Alo, ran a story on one Majnu, a young man whose life has arrived on the brink of a precipice as a consequence of his long attachment with the drug like heroin. He has been kept in chains by his parents as he turns violent when he does not get his coveted stuff. With hollow eyes, a shrivelled body, stuck out veins--Majnu is just a classic example of the dangers of drug addiction.
Illicit narcotics--heroin, cannabis, phensidyle and so on -- have flooded the whole country, so to say. It is the young men who take those stuff to get a'' high''. The nasty habit of regular intake of drugs poses serious health hazards. Bad company, peer pressure, easy availability of the illicit stuff--these are often touted as the probable reasons as to why the young men enter this blind alley of drug intake.
The fact remains that the menace of addiction has spread its tentacles though the length and breadth of this land. There are stringent laws to tackle the problem. Again there are some so-called drug rehabilitation centres which are, in most cases, run by former drug addicts! But the situation has remained the same, or worsened. In this regard the media can play an important role.