Drug Abuse simply refers to get satisfaction & consolation for a short period of time, then followed by a wrenching death, extreme use of psychotropic drugs, such as alcohol, barbiturates, opioids etc, “the word ‘DRUG’ is open to question, some naturally occurring substance in the central nervous system is considered a drug, and is illegal in many countries, while nicotine is not officially considered a drug in most countries, that is why the word drug is doubtful, the word “ABUSE” refers to harm, so it’s negative term & corrupting to yourself & the society, it death blows the entire society”. Substance abuse in our “KASHMIR” is alarming day by day like a “VIRUS”, Which causes ‘physical’ as well as “psychological” threat, where do these viruses come from, not from animals, but from homo sapiens, when a person freeing a virus into the society, they don’t just harm strangers, on the contrary, they will also harm their own family by releasing the viruses into the atmosphere. Nowadays the people of “KASHMIRI’S” use “HEROIN & ALCOHOL” as drink as well as an injection through intravenous, where do these people come from; it’s a “questionnaire” for the entire society especially for “MEDICAL HOSPITALS”. I will give the example of ‘GMC’ “SMHS” srinagar, where there comes at least 5-10 such cases each & every day, which comprises poisonous substances use & drug addiction people, doctors bring to completion their duty & responsibility, they treat & discharge them, but in-between they forget one thing, who gives them such illegal things without permission, who are those people & where do they come from? if these things are bought like this, it will be banned, so not many cases will be seen, such things should come under observation.“Nowadays everyone catch sight of, what’s proceeding in our Kashmir, family members skirmish with each other, this is what we hear nowadays, they kill each other, brother kills sister, son kills father, recently son killed his mother in ‘Anantnag district’, unsound youth kills 3 people, traffic collision would have happen day by day, behind all these shameful & horrible incidents is only “drug abuse substance,” which is used by the people of the society in different ways”. “DRUG ADDICTION” simply defines what kills a person is what makes a person get hold of again & again till they will face a painful death, four levels of addiction: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual, “DRUG DE-ADDICTION” refers to treatment for addiction towards ‘drug abuse substance’ (DDAP) Drug De-addiction Program was initiated in 1988 under the ‘ministry of health & family welfare,” International Day Against Drug Abuse & Illicit Trafficking is “26th of June”, international society free of drug abuse. “SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER” refers to disruption of mental health, loses mental balance, it may be mild, moderate or severe, disparate drugs cause more disorders at a time, some people take more than one drug, as a result, they suffer from not just one disorder, but more disorders at a time, each & every drug causes different mental disorders eg, alcohol use disorder, heroin use disorder cocaine use disorder, nowadays in our “KASHMIR “people take drugs in quantity level but regrettably the life in quality level gets ruined. Such people definitely enjoy their life but as temporary, then people make amusement of them forever, we see such people in “KASHMIR “today, lost their mental balance, people of good family fell victim to it, wandering on the streets, wandering through the alleys. In our ”KASHMIR”POLICE DEPARTMENT executes their duties day & night, leave their family for “PUBLIC SAFETY,” sometimes a police officer’s wife doesn’t know where my husband is, a daughter doesn’t know where my father is, a mother doesn’t know where my son is, a father doesn’t know where my son is, a son doesn’t know where my father is, people should be grateful to them, not only from the one angle, but from thousand of angles, I will give the example of [ FLYOVER, HARISING HIGH STREET, GONI KHAN, AMIRA KADAL ] through these cross roads, huge crowd of people come together & gather at the centre of most crowded & busiest place of heart of the city at “LALCHOWK SRINAGAR”, Why there is frequent explosions at the centre of Amirakadal Lalchowk. It is a four way intersection/ cross roads having streets for public & roads for public transport. People come from four sides, & then there is a huge crowd at the midpoint of these four routes. It is the most crowded & busiest place of heart of the city at Srinagar. On this republic day, government should consider it, because it is a matter of public safety & people’s precious lives. There should be intelligence security for public safety. i will mention only Sunday here, every police officer fulfills their duty at this centre point on Sunday, one day I saw DYSP there at the centre of four way intersection, conduct rules & regulations especially in traffic system, helps needy & poor people, save people rescue them from different horrible situations, why all this only for “PUBLIC SAFETY,” I MISS SHAHNAZA RAFIQ, salute the entire “POLICE DEPARTMENT OF KASHMIR”. One day, i was walking from “RAJBAGH”, the time was 5:30pm, I saw a strange sight towards road with huge traffic, students came out of their coaching centres in bunches, there were at least 2000 children in this crowd, some of them were going through the path & half were going through the middle of the road. Students should be left in small groups not all together, whether at [PARRAYPORA OR RAJBAGH SRINAGER], Safety is very consequential in every institution. Our “KASHMIR UNIVERSITY” is such an institution, in which students from all over Kashmir study, it is very important to have safety at every gate of “KASHMIR UNIVERSITY”. There are countless causes of depression, i will discuss about this, which is going on today, that means “WINTER SEASON IN KASHMIR”, nowadays you have catch sight of with your own eyes, how many fights are going there, whether be on the way, in the car, in the plane at airport or Jammu- Srinagar highway, in this brawl, some people get injured, & some people loose their lives, actually call it a disorder, “WINTER BLUES” winter depression*SAD(seasonal Affective Disorder), that only occurs in winter season. Signs & symptoms of (SAD) may include: Not interested to live in this world. Not utterly concerned with daily activities, looses interest in activities you once enjoyed. Feeling sad, sluggish, sleeping too much, carbohydrate cravings, over eating, weight gain, looses concentration, hopeless, worthless, guilty, unwanted thoughts, feeling listless, fatigue, insomnia , poor appetite, agitation, anxiety, irritability. Seasonal changes and bipolar disorder: Bipolar disorder patients are at alarming risk of “Seasonal Affective Disorder” in this disorder people are suffering from “mania” (hypomania), How Seasonal Affective disorder happens in the winter, how it causes worst consequences on ‘homo- sapiens’, i will explain it according to sequence. Mental health is directly proportional to the simplicity & simplicity is directly proportional to the inner peace of heart, mind & soul & inversely proportional to the complication, simplicity is peace, nourishment, beauty & happiness, nothing is much more important than peace of mind. Simplicity in life depends on quality but not on quantity, simplicity is a questionnaire for you, it depends on you whether you can simplify it in a simple way or in a complicated way, how much long-windedly you can explain it is quantity or how briefly you can give explaination to clear all in a few words is quality, in the same way, how long you can live doesn’t matter, how will you live a few moments, that present hour gives significance in life. When some people start to make life more & more complicated, they bring anxiety for themselves & they will ruin their entire peace in life. When a human body feels fatigue, they complaint that, our body gets too tired, actually body will never get tired, rather, it’s mind, that get’s tired by unwanted thoughts, the mind can’t be able to think much more, so that mental fatigue forces a person to sleep or entire body shut down. Everyone knows the various methods, how to keep & maintain mental health. e,g During exercise, brain releases endorphins & serotonian, improves mood, reduces stress, anxiety & depression, the most common mental illness nowadays alarming much more of about 90%. But no concept of books relation with (Mental health). Reading books keeps & maintain (Mental Health), it’s one of best therapeutic method of mental disorders, how reading of books works on mind & benefits. While reading a book, magazine or newspaper will through out of unwanted thoughts out of this world, then mind goes to the another world, in the world of books, free of thoughts, then free of tiredness, reading a book involves complex network of circuits & signals in the brain, as much as you can read, ability of reading matures, the network also gets stronger, that reduces mental illness & maintains heart beat. It’s all about mindset, no one in this world will keep someone happy, calm & peaceful unless & until each & every individual human species will maintain their own mind set, how can be monitored, it works of this way.
International Day against Drug abuse & illicit trafficking is marked on Sunday 26th of June 2022. Drug substance abuse is also much more responsible for mental disorders. New generations crave to keep themselves happy, because of so many reasons. When a person forgets him/her, he/she doesn’t know how to love, care & don’t understand the meaning of him/her, at the end the result is this; the entire world looks at them that way. Only 40% of people in the world have been mentally retard since from birth, but the 20% of people, who have gone insane, because of different incidents, eg traumatic brain injury, they suffer in cognitive problems, executive functioning problems & communication problems. 30% people value the others more than themselves, in return, they get pain & anxiety. That’s they deliberately hurts themselves, as a result they become more prone to depression, then they take & use different kinds of drugs, then they become insane, because of these things, they will undergo in behavioural changes, emotional changes & sensory problems. 10% people take stress by considering the world as their estate, why didn’t I find everything in the world. In fact, one day we will get out of this world, neither this world means nothing to us, nor does we mean anything to this world, then why people can take stress for this illusion. When we Kashmiris will go live to capture a live video, we can perceive by sight, the entire beautiful view of Kashmir. When we can see the whole beauty of Kashmir, then why don’t we see the things, that are destroying our Kashmir, “why aren’t such things captured in camera, while going live to get a live vedio “. Are those things hidden? No, “rather” we are asleep; we don’t want to wake up. You focus only on your camera; when you go live, this is an illusion, whatever is captured, you can’t be able to understand, but the reality is, whatever you can capture something with your own eyes. There are so many CCTV cameras in our Kashmir & is of miscellany. A human who makes the CCTV camera with his own hands, when suddenly something horrible incident happens, then the same person monitors on CCTV camera, after the horrible incident were happened. (What good is a website, if it simply “blends in” with everything else out there?)/ Which has to happen is happened. At the end, we don’t get to see anything, but CCTV footage. To date, so many young youth have committed suicide at “Amirakadal”. The first person who committed suicide at Amirakadal, that day was to be admonished, which no one can did till now, then now, it became the most hunted place in the history of Kashmir. !”Argus eyed” with “alertness” is a primary question & then “take actions to proceed”! Is a secondary question. Here are such personalities present, to whom has been given 10-15 security guards, that is, so many security guards just for an individual person, “why not’ one of these intelligence security guards will be kept for public safety/crowded places & then no disaster will be seen, nothing would be wrong & every wrong step will be restrained. Everyone gives thesis in their own way that suicide is forbidden in Islam. These Muslims around the world know that, it is haram to do anything against Islam. It is not just suicide that is being discussed in different ways. If someone is forced to do something wrong, we should try to stop it. If something is going wrong, we must give the thesis about cause & then halt. This hap more often with the Muslims of our Kashmir, because the people here to compose anything before they think, which has no upshot on any one. That is why we cannot restraint of this illegal enactment; on the contrary, it is intensifying & becomes alarming day by day. First there is torture of the mind, and then there is suicide, that is why the root of this riot must be eradicated first. Why, because the mental torture is a primary question & the suicide is a secondary question? First of all we should have to resolve the primary question, and then the secondary question will be automatically resolved. Nowadays it became a tradition in kashmir, that women’s were killed barbarically by in-laws, or forcing a woman to commit suicide. A father doesn’t give them only one chamber of his heart but he give them his entire heart, then they rupture that heart to pieces. People blame those, who are forced to loose their own lives. A woman had to endure a lot in her life. She had to tackle everything in her life, A woman is not only born but a woman is reborn in antithetical way. She has to full fill her responsibility in different ways at different stages in her life, first of all she become a daughter, sister, wife, & mother. Respect each & every woman as you respect your own mother & sister. She has to absorb & adsorb everything in her life that is why; a woman has a dual life. A poor man is also forced to commit suicide, because he has no recourse to live. A poor person needs something to live, because here is need. Recently a girl from sopore committing Suicide at Sopore Bridge, because of her poverty. Rich people should have a life of luxury, because here is wish. That is why here is a lot of difference between “need & wish”. We should help needy, poor people & those who are in a miserable condition that is humanity.
(The author is former BSc student of Govt women’s college MA road Srinagar, Registered Dental Assistant from GMC Srinagar and Mental Health counselor. The views, opinions, facts, assumptions, presumptions and conclusions of the expressed in this article are author’s own and aren’t necessarily in accord with the views of “Kashmir Horizon”.)
