WRITTEN by SARMAD ASHRAF
Just at the start of this weekend, my friends’ friend
died due to use of drugs. I had met this person many times and he was a healthy
fellow. He would often talk very less and never gave an impression of the
typical drug addict. When I heard the news of his death, I could not believe my
ears for a while as to me it was a real shock. The reason in medical terms was
declared to be heart attack, but that was through an intensive influence of
some severe drugs. This brings me to a question, why do people use drug? A fair
answer, from an addict’s point of view, will be to run away from their
tensions, hide sorrows, as a social multiplier, a great relaxant, a happiness
inducer, or things similar to this. But does death means to separate from
tensions, or to hide sorrows? Can death make you relaxed? Having met different
sort of people from different parts of the world, for the time being ignoring
religion, I am very liberal in the allowance of drugs. For instance, if a
person wants to use drugs, I would say yes let him do what he wants. However,
my question is directly towards the drug users that why they use the drugs to
the level that they cannot control. Specifically the youth who try to use drug
as a show-off kind of thing, and they are proud to share with their friends who
many “joints” they scored. I would never blame anyone for the deaths of drug
addicts, but the drugs and themselves. Why? Well, because if it was any
government’s fault or parent’s fault or anyone else’s fault, then all of us
would have been dead. There are addicts in the world’s most advanced countries
and the world’s most poor countries; you can find drug users who belong to very
sophisticated families and also the illiterate ones as well. In my opinion, the
biggest controlling factor is your own self and your beliefs, mainly religious
ones. It doesn't matter which religion
you follow, but if you listen to it carefully, it will always stop you from
drugs and following your religion will help you get the inner courage and
strength to reject it. Apart from religion, Parents, teachers and other social
factors also should play their roles but not as an enemy, but a gentle and
caring facilitator. Also, there is desperate need to have intense researches in
this area to understand the mind-set of addicts, the reasons and modernized way
to assist the addict gain the inner courage to stop using drugs.
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