#Social Issues DRUG ABUSE IN INDIA Why in news? The Wo | CSE MAINS BOOSTER
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DRUG ABUSE IN INDIA
Why in news?
The World Drug Report 2020 was released by The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
that has outlined the possible consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on Illegal Drug Production, Supply and Consumption.
In India, ‘Nasha Mukt Bharat:
Annual Action Plan (2020-21)
for 272 Most Affected Districts’
was e-launched by Ministry of
Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJE) on the occasion of “International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking” (June 26).
Drug abuse in India
Substances of abuse include
alcohol, opiates, cocaine,
amphetamines, hallucinogens,
prescription and over-the- counter drug abuse.
As per the UNODC 2020 report,
India is also among the countries with highest illicit cultivation and production of cannabis from 2010 to 2017. In 2018, India topped with largest seizure in South Asia, amounting to 266.5 tons of cannabis herb.
As per the report submitted by AIIMS in 2019,
Alcohol is the most common psychoactive substance used by Indians followed by Cannabis and
Opioids.
Within India, the worst affected regions are North East India (especially Manipur) and North West India (especially Punjab) followed by Mumbai and Delhi and now Haryana.
India is the link country between the two major opium producing regions of the world, namely -the
“Golden Triangle” and the “Golden Crescent”.
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