Youth Substance Abuse

Dad came home one night with a brown paper bag in his left hand. The bag had small black letters on it; I couldn't quite make out what it said. His face wore a conceited smile as he rushed to his bedroom. Before I could ask him how his day was the door shut behind him. I heard him dump…

As the drug epidemic continues to painstakingly seep into the country's social and cultural aspects, drug abuse naturally trickles into our younger generation – a generation refusing to be left out. Making up one-fifth of the population, 15-24 year-olds carry with them India's future. The youth of our nation will eventually determine the country's moral, political, and social persuasions. Bearing…

They live in the shadows. Maybe you've seen them. They follow each other to dark corners, hands full of poison. Used needles and stained prescription bottles litter these corners. In tight huddles, they look at each other--bloodshot eyes--they inhale the poison. Some jab their arms with thin needles to empty syringes filled with cocktails of toxins. Others sit on black…