What is drug addiction? 

Do you know what drug addiction is? Taking intoxicating materials other than wine as part of habit is called Drug Addiction. Drug addiction is prevalent in all parts of our country in one form or other. In our country 70 lacs of people are addiction to drug. In Delhi alone, 25% students are addiction to it. Here people are addiction to tobacco, Ganja, Bhang, Charas and opium. The plants of tobacco, Ganja, Bhang and charas are found since time immemorial in our country. These intoxicating materials were culturally prescribed for enjoyment on ceremonies and festivals. They were also used as medicine. But now a good number of people have become addiction to them. They can not without taking them. Besides, the traditional intoxicating materials, youth of our country are also addiction to modern drug such as heroine, morphemes, smack, mandrax, and L. S. D. 

Habitual taking of drug is called drug addiction. There are two types of drug to which people of our country are addiction. There are traditional drug and modern drug. Tobacco, Ganja, Bhang, Charas and opium are traditional drugs. Heroine, morphemes, Hashish, Smack, mandrax and L. S. D. are modern drugs

Drug addiction is harmful in many ways. It makes a person mentally weak. It also leads to premature death. It is responsible for personality, family and social disorganisation. It also creates problems related to administration. There has also been a close relation between drug addiction and crime. Drug addiction people commit crimes like suicide, quarrel, sex crime and murder etc. 

Drug addiction is prevalent in rural as well as in urban areas. In rural areas, a number of youth are addiction to tobacco, ganja, bhang, cigarettes and toddy etc. In urban areas, youth are addiction to charas, opium, heroine, morphemes, hasish, smax, mandrax and L. S. D. besides cigarettes, tobacco, ganja and bhang. Rural people do not know about modern drugs. But gradually the addiction of modern drug is spreading in rural areas too. 

The youth of our country start taking drug for fashion, in bad company, to remove despair and to feel pleasure. They are also attracted towards drug addiction to see modern drug addiction in T. V. and cinema. 

Youth of poor as well as rich family background are involved in it. Illiterate as well as literate youth are addiction it. Now a days, young girls have also come under its addiction. But it is a source of income for the government. Pressure of politicians and industrialists also comes in the way of control of drug addiction. Such intoxicating drugs and materials are smuggled in large scale in our country. Veteran criminals of underworld are earning crores and crores of rupees from the smuggling of such drugs. They also pay huge bribe to officials of Excise Department. They also give fund to political parties and extend help during election. Politicians and bureaucrats provide them shelter.