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Posted on March 24, 2012 in Society
By Prerna Tyagi:
Till very recently my father was posted in Mizoram and on each of his visit to
home, he would tell us about the people there, their culture and traditions.
The thing that he talked most about was the grave situation of drug
addiction in the North East India. Every third person in the region is or has
been a drug addict at some point in his or her life. The most shocking thing
that he told was that it is not easy to spot an old person there; not because they
have a secret anti-aging potion or something, but because the life expectancy
in the region is very low and most people die young; a major part of their lives
goes into nothing else but drug abuse. No doubt the influence of the
substance-use takes a person to a different world, completely disconnected
from the reality; especially when the reality is also not so rosy as the North
Eastern part of India is one of the least developed region with very few
infrastructural, educational and employment opportunities. The
unemployment rate of 59.3% is very high compared to the nation-wide rate of
19.7%.