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In war against drugs, addiction rate among Punjab women is overlooked -Vikas Vasudeva

-The Hindu A successful pilot project involving outreach staff at the State’s only de-addiction facility exclusively for women has been discontinued While Punjab is waging an all-out war against drugs, it faces a Herculean task in curbing substance abuse by women, who have often been overlooked in the discourse. Against this backdrop, a recent video showing a young, inebriated woman by a roadside bench in Kapurthala has caught the glare of public eye. The married 22-year-old, addicted to heroin, had been undergoing treatment at the State’s only government-run women’s de-addiction centre in Kapurthala. In the video, which went viral on social media, the young woman is heard saying she gets her chitta (heroin) from the nearby Mehtabgarh village, where drug peddlers can frequently be found roaming about. The police swung into action and had her re-admitted to the de-addiction centre. Sandeep Bhola, Deputy Medical Commissioner and consultant psychiatrist at the centre, told The Hindu that the woman was receiving treatment. He said the lack of outreach staff was proving to be a major obstacle in treating women addicts. In another such case, in a video that went viral on social media last month, a young woman, allegedly under the influence of narcotic substances, is seen standing immobile on a road, swaying and attempting to move, in the Maqboolpura locality of Amritsar. Commissioner of Police (Amritsar), Arun Pal Singh, said that Maqboolpura is a “hot spot” for drugs and the police regularly take up operations against peddlers. Please click here to read more.