13% drug abusers in India below 20 yrs: UN official

Agencies Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 17: Around 13.1 per cent of the people involved in drug and substance abuse in India are below 20 years, which calls for further stepping up community intervention and preventive mechanism targeting adolescents, said a top United Nations official, here on Thursday. Billy Batware, Programme Officer of United Nations Office on Drugs and

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