Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir): In the drugs afflicted Kashmir Valley, the youth are being badly affected by the use of addictive drugs like heroin and ganja with lives of thousands of boys and girls being destroyed by drugs. While drug addiction is adversely affecting the health of the addicts on one hand, the costly drugs are ruining the financial condition of the victims.
Sohail (name changed) has been addicted to heroin for the past three years. In a special conversation with ETV Bharat, Sohail said that at first he wanted to do drugs after seeing his friends and once he used heroin, he became addicted to it. "I spent about 30 lakh rupees in the last three years to meet the demand for heroin.
Of the total amount, Rs 20 lakh was saved from my salary and Rs 10 lakh I took as loan,” he said. Sohail works as a Surveillance Engineer in a bank, which has currently suspended him from services. Sohail, 30 years old, said that his daily expenditure on heroin was around Rs 14,000. “I became distant from my parents and my close relationship and not only money but also honor was lost,” he said.