India's addiction crisis
India, Feb. 20 -- Solving any problem in India requires a certain scale of understanding. And because of India's size, the scale of any problem is huge. Any issue might seem small in percentage terms but given a billion plus human beings in the country, the problem, even when it is a fraction of a per cent, becomes huge. Ergo, the challenge before the Central and State Governments in order to solve the addiction that millions of Indians have for narcotics and alcohol, will require some major intervention. Numbers are stunning - while 14.6 per cent of India's population drank alcohol in the past, of that number, 19 per cent are dependent or abusing alcohol, which amounts to 57 million people. The numbers for cannabis dependence are five mi...
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