India, Feb. 8 -- By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD

Without seeming to realise what we are heading into, we as a society, seem to be walking head on, into a very major catastrophe, that is going to impact and even drastically alter the state of our happiness and the state of our civilisation too, in the very near future.

Every passing day, we are now reading reports and seeing visuals from all around us, of massive seizures of narcotic and psychotropic drugs, of every imaginable kind. The market value of these seized substances runs into crores of rupees, which indicates the massive scale of this sleazy business that continues to go unchecked, across geographical and political borders, with widespread inter-State and even global ramifications....