Key Points
After abusing drugs and alcohol, the addicts in Punjab are now hooked on de-addiction drugs...
Thousands of Punjab addicts being treated at government and private centres have been found addicted to de-addiction drugs like buprenorphine..
A network of 198 Out Patient Opioid Assisted Treatment (OOAT) centres, and 35 government and 108 private de-addiction centres could rid just 244 addicts of their addiction between 2017 and 2022...
Investigation by India Today TV revealed that a sizeable number of drug addicts reached the de-addiction centres during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown when the heroin-supply chain got disturbed...
The widespread heroin seizures -- the most abused drug in Punjab -- on one hand, increased the street prices of the drug and pushed more addicts into de-addiction centres...
