{"id":37602,"date":"2018-07-23T01:19:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T19:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=37602"},"modified":"2018-07-23T01:19:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T19:49:26","slug":"anti-drugs-campaign-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/07\/23\/anti-drugs-campaign-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-drugs campaign launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>PASIGHAT, Jul 22:<\/strong> East Siang Superintendent of Police Prashant Gautam in association with NGOs AAUN Foundation and Women Against Social Evils (WASE) launched an anti-drugs campaign here on Friday.<br \/>\nAmong others, principals and headmasters of government, government-aided and private schools participated in the launch programme, to which DDSE J Yirang provided technical and logistic support.<br \/>\n&#8220;We are deeply concerned about the growing drugs menace in the district. The rising trend of drug abuse amongst the youths, more particularly amongst the student community, is alarming,&#8221; the SP said while making a PowerPoint presentation.<br \/>\nHe appealed to the teaching community and NGOs to sensitize the students and parents, &#8220;so that they take up a pioneering role in creating an atmosphere where drug abusers and peddlers will have no place in society.&#8221;<br \/>\nApart from affecting the users physically, drug abuse leads to many kinds of criminal activities, the SP said.<br \/>\n&#8220;The need of money to buy illegal drugs has driven many youths to earn money easily, and they get involved in criminal activities. It is a serious problem amongst school children, and controlling it is a major challenge,&#8221; Gautam said.<br \/>\nHe said the teaching community should include classroom lectures about the dangers of drug abuse.<br \/>\n&#8220;Treatment of drug abuse lies in counselling and providing an atmosphere that helps the addict to come out of the trap and indulge once again in healthy living,&#8221; AAUN Foundation secretary Mohonto Pangin said.<br \/>\nEarlier, WASE general secretary Jaya Tasung Moyong informed that her NGO has been organizing anti-drug programmes involving civil society, GBs and PRI leaders in the district to educate the people about the ill effects of drugs, illegal peddling and sale of illegal IMFL.<br \/>\nShe spoke on different aspects of the drug menace affecting the society, and stressed that adequate awareness and preventive measures should be enforced at the district level.<br \/>\nMoyong exhorted the police and other law enforcing agencies to be more vigilant and take strong action against drug marketeers. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASIGHAT, Jul 22: East Siang Superintendent of Police Prashant Gautam in association with NGOs AAUN Foundation and Women Against Social Evils (WASE) launched an anti-drugs campaign here on Friday. Among others, principals and headmasters of government, government-aided and private schools participated in the launch programme, to which DDSE J Yirang provided technical and logistic support. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}