Kerala, with a population of 3 crore, reported more than one lakh substance abuse cases in a year, whereas Uttar Pradesh with a population of 30 crore has just 12,000 cases reported, stated previous Director General of Cops and Import Tax CommissionerRishiraj Singh He was launching a book on ‘results of substance abuse’ composed by P.N. Suresh Kumar, in Kozhikode on Saturday.
” One-fifth of the overall variety of very first info cases [FIRs] signed up by the Import tax in the State related to substance abuse. Nevertheless, we have much better treatment centers for such cases compared to other States, and we have actually used up the difficulty,” he stated, including that the State had the optimum variety of de-addiction centres in Asia, which there was one in every taluk.
The book release belonged to the observance of International Day versus Substance abuse and Illicit trafficking under the aegis of Thanal Suicide Avoidance Centre, Indian Medical Association (Kozhikode Branch), Indian Medical Association Kerala State Mental Health Committee, and Chethana Centre for Neuro Psychiatry.
Thottathil Raveendran, MLA, inaugurated the occasion, while Thanal Structure chairman A.K. Abdul Razak administered.