Puttur: Lifestyle change cause of drug abuse - ZP Prez Asha

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Puttur, 27 Jun 2014: The more children and youth are hooked onto drugs because parents have very little control over their children who have changed their lifestyles depending on the changed circumstances, said ZP president Asha Timmappa Gowda.
 
Asha was speaking after inaugurating World Drug de-addiction Day at St Philomena College, here on Friday June 27.  The programme was jointly organized by Karnataka Alcohol De-Addiction Board, I & B department and St Philomena College.   
 
‘The joint families are withered to become nuclear families.  It’s owing to this, the teenagers and youth are deprived of timely advices from elderly.  The teenagers are lured to drugs and other ill habits as they lack parental control.  The parents are responsible for their children to go astray because they pamper their children with love and fail to correct them,’ said Asha.  

 

 
 
Asha urged the authorities of schools and colleges to create awareness on drug abuse as of late it’s peddled freely in the vicinity, urged Asha.  She also urged the parents to keep watch on their children.
 
The local surgeon Dr Nazeer Ahmed in his talk on the evils of alcohol and drugs said that youth are easily attracted to alcohol, drugs and smoking during their teens.  Meanwhile, its easier to give up such ill habits at the early stages, if not it creates havoc on their life and also families.
 
Puttur town councilor Mohammed Ali released handbook that was brought out on the occasion of World Drug de-addiction Day.
 
St Philomena College principal Professor Leo Noronha presided the programme.
 
DK district information officer B A Khadersha welcomed the gathering. The lecturer Paul Herald Mascarenhas proposed vote of thanks.  Johnson D’Costa compered the programme.