Since politicians and censors won’t let us watch Udta Punjab, share the hell out of this for now.
Jun. 8, 2016:
| 1. In 2009, Punjab’s average of drug abuse among youth was 51.6%. The national average was 2.8% — 18 times less. |
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| 2. This year, a study by AIIMS found that drugs worth `7,500 crore are consumed in Punjab annually. |
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| 3. `6,500 crore of this is spent on heroin. |
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| 4. 76% of drug addicts are between the ages of 18-35. |
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| 5. The prevalence of HIV among injection-based drug users in Punjab is 21.10%. |
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| 6. 8.6 lakh people are opioid users. 1,23,414 are heroin-dependent. |
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| 7. 45% of all convicts in Indian jails on drug-related charges are from Punjab. |
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| 8. According to a 2009 survey, 67% of Punjab’s rural population was found to have a drug addict per family. |
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| 9. The survey also noted that every third male and every tenth female student has used drugs, and that seven out of 10 college students use some kind of drug. |
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Imaan Sheikh is a writer for BuzzFeed and is based in Dubai.