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"75% of the youth. Every third student. 65% of all families in Punjab are in the throes of a sweeping drug addiction. With little or no hope in sight."

"Angarh is just one symptom of a monstrous crises: a staggering 75 per cent of Punjab's youth is hooked to drug abuse, a figure the state government itself submitted to the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2009. One out of every three college students in the state is on drugs. In Doaba, Majha and Malwa- regions particularly affected- almost every third family has at least one addict. Every kind of drug is readily available here. From smack, heroin and synthetic drugs to over-the- counter drugs like Buprenorphine, Parvon Spas, Codex Syrup and spurious Coaxil and Phenarimine injections. This is a state where 30 per cent of all jail inmates have been arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and the DGP has kicked up a political storm by saying it is impossible for him to control the flow of drugs into his prisons. But the sharp irony is, this matters little because, like Angarh, scores of other towns and villages in Punjab are more notorious than any other prison cell."