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KULGAM: The J&K medication is readying to found rehabilitation centres crossed the authorities to assistance recovering addicts reintegrate into society, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said Monday arsenic helium led the “Drug-Free J&K Padyatra” successful southbound Kashmir's Kulgam district.Talking to the TOI connected the sidelines of the event, Sinha said the run has importantly disrupted cause trafficking networks crossed J&K. “Our run has breached the proviso concatenation and those progressive successful cause trafficking are facing pugnacious times,” helium said.Sinha said hundreds of radical affected by cause addiction are contacting Tele-MANAS Srinagar, the nationalist intelligence wellness helpline, each time to question attraction and counselling.
He said the run has besides encouraged nationalist participation, with residents straight informing constabulary astir drug-related activities successful their localities.The LG said de-addiction centres are functioning successful each districts of Jammu and Kashmir and counsellors person been deployed to supply intelligence enactment and semipermanent attraction to recovering addicts.Unlike galore different parts of the country, wherever rehabilitation facilities are mostly tally by the backstage sector, the projected centres successful Jammu and Kashmir volition beryllium established successful the authorities assemblage and made disposable successful each district, helium said.
Addressing the gathering astatine the event, Sinha said that implicit the past 51 days, they person carried retired extensive, coordinated operations against narco-terrorists and cause traffickers.Sinha had connected April 11 launched a 100-day intensive thrust nether the Nasha Mukt Abhiyaan to marque Jammu and Kashmir “drug-free”.The run has progressive large-scale consciousness programmes by the civilian medication and police, demolition of poppy cultivation, random urine investigating of drivers and intensified crackdowns connected cause networks.Since the run was started 923 FIRs person been registered against alleged cause traffickers successful the past 51 days. More than 1,000 alleged cause smugglers person been arrested, implicit 55 alleged cause traffickers person been detained.“This run is striking straight astatine the fiscal backbone of terrorism. Every rupee spent connected drugs fuels extremist violence, and narco-terrorists past connected that humor money. By halting the cause trade, we chopped disconnected the lifeline that sustains panic networks,” helium said.According to a survey, “Prevalence and Pattern of Substance Use Disorders successful Ten Districts of Kashmir” carried retired by the IMHANS Kashmir successful 2023, the Valley has estimated 67,468 substance-dependent individuals. The survey said heroin is the astir wide utilized opioid.
