Key Points
Punjab is witness to a growing number drug overdose deaths in recent months with victims, from youngsters to police personnel, falling prey to easy availability of adulterated chitta (heroin)..
Hindustan Times brings out stories of families, comprising elderly parents, hapless widows and clueless children, in the hinterland left to fend for themselves as sole breadwinners lose everything to drug abuse...
The elderly parents, both labourers, who lost their son to drug overdose three months ago, look lost because they dont know how to raise their 10-year-old grandson...
Daily wage earner Sukhchain Singhs parents Kirpal Kaur and Najar Singh outside their partially constructed house at Bhana village in Faridkot district..
Sukhchains mother Kirpal Kaur, 60, picks cow dung from houses of landlords in the village to earn just about enough to meet daily expenses and his father Najar Singh, 62, works as a daily wager in fields or at a brick-kiln..
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