Drugs and Crime: Alcohol and drugs are implicated in an estimated 58% of offences leading to incarceration in the country.

Author: Rohit Mahawar, Law Student

All aspects of a person’s life are negatively affected by the use of drugs, it not only affects on that person but also affects their family, friends and people living in that society or community and even places an enormous burden on society. The connection between alcohol, drugs and crime are the most significant areas of risk.

Alcohol and drugs are implicated in an estimated 58% of offenses leading to incarceration in the country such as domestic violence, driving while intoxicated, drug offenses, and public-order offenses. Alcohol is day by day ruining the life of youth of our country.

The Global Information System on Alcohol and Health (GISAH) is an essential tool for assessing and monitoring the health situation and trends related to alcohol consumption, alcohol-related harm, and policy responses in countries.

• The harmful use of alcohol results in the death of 2.5 million people annually.
• There are 60 different types of diseases where alcohol has a significant causal role.
• It also causes harm to the well-being and health of people around the drinker.
• In 2005, the worldwide total consumption was equal to 6.13 litres of pure alcohol per person 15 years and older.
• Unrecorded consumption accounts for nearly 30% of the worldwide total adult consumption.

Drugs and Crime:-

The relationship between drugs and crime is complex, and the question is whether use of drug leads people to commit some criminal offense or whether people consuming drugs are already predisposed to such activity.

However, at the most intense levels of drug use, drugs and crime are directly and highly correlated and serious drug use can amplify and perpetuate preexisting criminal activity.

• Use-Related crime: These are crimes that result from or involve individuals who ingest drugs, and who commit crimes as a result of the effect the drug has on their thought processes and behavior.

• Economic-Related crime: These are crimes where an individual commits a crime in order to fund a drug habit. These include theft and prostitution
• System-Related crime: These are crimes that result from the structure of the drug system. They include production, manufacture, transportation, and sale of drugs, as well as violence related to the production or sale of drugs, such as a turf war.

DRUG RELATED CRIME: NCRB REPORT (PUNJAB):-

Punjab in India is recorded as the highest drug related crime state in the country, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) 2013, it had the highest number of people booked under the Narcotics Drug and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act of 1985. The Act includes activities related to production, preparation, manufacturing or illicit trafficking of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances not limited to opium, cannabis, pseudoephedrine, poppy husk, heroin and so on.

Approximately 14,564 people are booked are booked under this act, this is the worst condition of Punjab among all the states and union territories.

The report has also revealed that Punjab has the highest average of drug abuse[1] among youth at 51.6%. It is 18 times more than the national average of 2.8%.

• Overall, 34,101 people in India were slapped with the charges under the NDPS Act.
• With 6039 cases, Uttar Pradesh holds the second position but is far behind the agrarian state in becoming a drug haven. While the national capital, New Delhi, reported 442 cases, Maharashtra had 2714 people booked under the Act.
• The NCRB[2] data also revealed that conviction rate under in Punjab under the NDPS Act is 80.5%, below the national average of 81%.

CONCLUSION:-

Use of drugs and alcohol is increasing at a very fast rate in our country, especially the youth of the country is most attracted towards it, because some of the highly damaging drugs are cheap in rate and easily available in the country. We have to stop this use of drugs but unless these drugs are stopped from getting imported from other countries is not possible. These drugs are also used in making medicines and it is illegal to make them available to people without prescription. Students who get addicted to such drugs and alcohol ruin their life as well as the future of the country

Therefore, we have to generate awareness against consumption of drugs and alcohol.

Footnote:   

[1] The Habitual Taking Of Illegal Drugs.

[2] National Crime Records Bureau

 

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