The New Nation - Internet Edition

Md. Nurun Nabi

Drug abuse directly influences the economic and social aspects of a country. In Bangladesh it is a growing national concern. There are millions of drug-addicted people in Bangladesh and most of them are young, between the ages of 18 and 30. And they are from all strata of the society. In Bangladesh, sources of drug information quite limited and drug companies are the vital sources of information here. As with other countries in the world, Bangladesh is victimized for drug addiction in its young generation for mainly following reasons. Primary Causes of Drug abuse in Bangladesh: Primary

Cause Percentage

Delinquent

Peer 50%

Unconsciousness 5%

Curiosity 15%

Joy Felling 5%

Depression 20%

Others 5%

Total 100%

An overall cause includes psychological causes, economical causes, social causes, political causes, Biological causes and Familial causes Psychological causes:

Depression is a common cause of drug addiction. In daily life, people feel depression in many ways for many reasons. They try to remove depression and use drug as a tool for remove that depression. One day they became drug addict. Heart broken: When a man or woman refused by another man or woman in time of romance or marriage proposal, it is said that the heart of the refused person is broken. To reduce the mental shock, the refused person takes drug, and this taking is turned into addiction. This culture is mainly observed in the young generation.

One of the common causes of drug addiction is association with peer groups. When a normal person associates with an addicted person, he has a high probability to be a drug addicted. Curiosity is a normal tendency of human being. Especially the teenagers are more curious than others. At first they taste drug from their curiosity. Later, many of them turned into drug addicted.

Due to psychological disorder people become frustrated and thus they may be addicted to drug to forget their frustration or depression.. Unexpected event, sorrow, refusal from affairs makes a man psychologically ill and for this reason people may be addicted to drug.

Poverty is the main cause of drug. Who cannot lead a happiness life he must feel inferior and want to drive his problem? In a research finds that most of the people become addicted to the drug for poverty and lack of property or full of property. Drug helps him to ignore his sorrows or emotion. But in case of property he willingly wants to abuse money and the drug testing is the main cause of it.

Different society has different cultural and religious tradition. In different cultural festival a common tradition is taking alcohol, cannabis, and other drug.

There are some religious festivals where drug is common. In the festivals of different tribal society, people use drug as a part of their festival. Social status: Sometimes people take drugs due to their social status. Higher-class young people take alcohol and other drugs to maintain their status in the friend circle. They believe that taking drug is a fashion for higher-class people. Day by day they become more addicted and cannot leave it.

One of the important causes of drug addiction is the availability of drug. Drug trafficking is one of the reason for availability of drugs. The law enforcement agencies are not well equipped and effective to stop the drug dealing and trafficking. As a result the drug dealers distribute drugs among the people and the people become drug addicted by taking this drug.

The unemployed young peoples are always in depression for their unemployment. To remove their depression they use drug. Sometime, unemployed people associate with criminal act and drug addicted gang and start taking drugs with them. Unconscious about drug: Many people become drug addicted beyond their consciousness. People use different medicine for different disease. Longtime use of those medicines make them dependant on those medicines. Later, they don't continue their normal life without those medicines.

Day by day, human being losing their social and religious norms, values.

Almost all the religion prohibit drug. Most of the society prohibits taking of drug. But people lost the norms, values and taking drug. Political cause: motivated by the political party: Sometimes young peoples are motivated by the political person to take drug. Many political leaders are related with drug trafficking. They distribute this drug through criminal gang to young people.

Access affection of parents: Sometimes young people don't care anything under access affection of their parents. They act as they like. Onetime they join in the delinquent gang and start taking drug. Less family interaction: Less family interaction reduces the parental control over the child and lost the sympathy for their parents. As a result the son/daughter has the chance to associate with peers and learn how to take drugs.

Quarrel between father, mother and other family members' leads a child to delinquency. A delinquent child associate with other delinquent peers and one day they will join in delinquent gang where drug is available for the gang members.

Long term disease needs long term use of medicine. Day by day the patient became dependant on the medicine and got addiction with that medicine.

In the later period, he cannot continue his normal life without that medicine. 2: Pain or lengthy sleeplessness.3: Insomnia for protection of dieses, 4: Genetically effects from the ancestor: Sometimes there are genetically causes for drug addiction. It is said that, the son of a drug addicted father will be drug addicted.