DRUG AWARENESS TO HIGH RISK YOUTHS IN DTs BAGPAT, MEERUT, HAPUR AND GHAZIABAD.

National Drug Dependence Treatment centre, AIIMS has rated Uttar Pradesh as high user of Ganja or charas (6 in a scale of 1 to 7). Millions of Indians are dependent on alcohol, cannabis, and opiates, and drug misuse is a pervasive phenomenon in Indian society, says a new report, published jointly by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and India's Ministry of Social Justice. DESI has been promoting drug awareness in western U.P. districts highlighting the ill-effects of drug addiction. Depression specially due to lack of employment opportunities, family disorganization, love failure, bad company etc are key factors for the youth's drug addiction.