Drugs in India

India too is caught in this circle of drug abuse, and the numbers of drug addicts are increasing day by day. According to a report as many as one million drug addicts are registered in India, and unofficially there are as many as five million.  Not only this, India is involved in producing drugs too. Drugs like Cannabis, heroin, and Indian-produced pharmaceutical drugs are the most frequently abused drugs in India. Cannabis products, often called charas, or ganja, are abused throughout the country because it has attained some amount of religious sanctity because of its association with some Hindu deities. The collapse of the old joint family system, absence of parental love and care in modern families where both parents are working, decline of old religious and moral values etc lead to a rise in the number of drug addicts who take drugs to escape hard realities of life. Drug use, misuse or abuse is also shows the personality of the individual and the addict's immediate environment. The processes of industrialization, urbanization and migration have led to loosening of the traditional methods of social control rendering an individual vulnerable to the stresses and strains of modern life.