Srinagar, May 6 -- Consider what a number like 95,000 actually means. Not as a data point in a policy brief, not as a line in a government report - but as 95,000 individual childhoods, each one unravelling in slow motion inside a household where a parent has already tried everything: the police station that recorded the complaint and moved on; the de-addiction centre that discharged the patient too soon; the prayer that went unanswered; the morning they stopped being able to look their child in the eye and see a future there. Jammu & Kashmir's addiction crisis - 13 lakh adults consumed, 1.68 lakh minors ensnared, and 33,000 syringes discarded daily - is not, at its core, a public health emergency. It is an accumulation of private catastro...