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Div Com Kmr for multi-pronged approach to curb substance use

  • RK News By RK News
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  • 29 Sep 2025

Srinagar, Sept 29: Divisional Commissioner (Div Com) Kashmir, Anshul Garg on Monday convened an urgent meeting to address the alarming issue of drug addiction & substance use by youth in the Valley. The meeting was attended by Director Health Services Kashmir; HOD Community Medicine, GMC Srinagar; CMO Srinagar, Deputy Director Health Service Kashmir, Deputy Director Planning, District Social Welfare Officer, OSD to Divisional Commissioner and other officers. Taking serious note of the drug menace and stressing the need to curb its spread, the Div Com called for a multi-pronged approach to address drug abuse through intensive regulation of the supply chain of scheduled drugs, monitoring of medical stores, regulation of private drug de-addiction centres, and evaluation of the success rate of de-addiction centres and Alternate Treatment Facilities (ATFs). Highlighting the requirement for the strict & tangible measures to curb the spread and use of prohibited substances, the Div Com directed the constitution of the divisional committee to frame guidelines to address the menace. He expressed serious concern over the increasing substance use, which destroys the lives of youth & social fabric in society. Garg called for destroying the supply chain of banned substances to protect society and de-linking private drug stores from prescribing those drugs used for withdrawal symptoms of victims of the drug menace to curtail misuse of prescriptions.    

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