Our Young Generation and Drug Menace
Afsana Rezoana Sultana
12th February, 2021 10:47:57
We do not know when our young generation will get rid of the drug menace. A large part of the country s youth is addicted to drugs. We need to think about how bad the situation can be if the younger generation gets involved in such a game of destruction.
China is a shining example of an entire nation being wiped out by drugs alone. The British wanted to occupy China. But capturing economically prosperous China was not easy. Then they planned to make the young generation of China addicted to opium which was then used as a medicine in China. They imported very little opium from abroad. The British started sending large quantities of opium to China through the East India Company and the Chinese began to take it as a drug. Gradually the demand for opium in China increased so much that the smuggling of opium began there. The situation was that in some provinces, 9 out of 10 people were addicted