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A recent study found that peer pressure; surrogate advertisements of cigarette and alcohol companies, and movies are influencing high school and pre-university youth in the 15-18 age group to abuse tobacco, drugs, and alcohol. A joint study by Link De-Addiction and Counseling Center and Indo-Global Social Service Society studied 2835 students in Mangalore and found that 20.11% boys and 4.53% girls use tobacco and 26.6% boys and 10.33% girls consume alcohol. Of this group, 11.17% are regular drinkers.
In an alarming new trend, 6.31% of boys and 1.18% of girls admit to using drugs. Among the boys, 15.09% say that they like brown sugar, heroin, etc, 37.73% smoke cannabis like ganja, and 47.18% abuse medical drugs like cough syrups, pain killers, and sleeping tablets. Of the sample, 23.28% do drugs daily, 16.43% weekly, and 60.29% occasionally. |
