Baramulla, May 12 -- Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet Minister and National Conference senior leader Javid Ahmad Dar said that the government is working on a rehabilitation path for those involved in drug abuse, and all medical colleges and hospitals are open for treatment.

Speaking to news agency Kashmir News Service (KNS) after the 'Padyatra' led by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha in Baramulla, Minister Dar described drug addiction as a disease and urged society not to stigmatise or boycott affected children.

"This is a disease, just like any other.We should sympathise with the child instead of hiding it," Dar said, adding that families often hide the issue and end up abandoning the child.

He called upon civil society, imams, khateebs, and ...