No more drugs! Young addicts write moving confession to Thane cops

The Thane police and a Kalyan NGO have received a few cries for help from school and college students who got enmeshed in the world of drugs alcohol and flesh trade seeking assistance for freedom from the vicious trap Their anonymous letters of confession reveal the extent to which they were forced to go to satisfy their craving Some of them are now being offered expert help at a Kalyan deaddiction centreThe Disha Samajik Seva Sansthan along with the Anjuman Foundation in Kalyan is helping the youngsters to kick their addictionsMy boyfriend and I have been addicted to drugs and alcohol He used to assault me for cash to fuel his habits Once I borrowed R5000 from a friend She suggested I get into prostitution to get more cash I was desperate and agreed I would reach a lodge or an office as instructed by friends and would be paid Rs 5000 per person My boyfriends increasing demand for money forced me to work as a call girl wrote a Bandra collegianAlso read Pooja Bhatt celebrates 8 months of sobriety with this photoI smoked up all kinds of drugs including marijuana and hashish I was in the third year of a diploma at a Thane polytechnic Addiction was very common there we had a dum smoke shed and many others Because I didnt want my parents to know what I was up to I would go home only once in 15 days sleeping in the house of a woman in Kolshewadi a jaunt for hungover girls We would all pass out and wake up the next day with no idea of what had happened to us the previous night wrote the teenaged daughter of railway policemanI wish I had listened to my parents and studied hardthen I wouldnt have fallen in this trap I would roam around with addicts all boys who would threaten me to bring cash from home I would comply and we would spend all that money on drugs and smoke up wrote a Std IX dropout a Kalyan resident whose father is superintendent of customsThese are some of the letters the Thane police receivedQuick measuresThe Disha Samajik Seva Sansthan along with the Anjuman Foundation in Kalyan has started a deaddiction initiative along with the police under the guidance of Param Bir Singh commissioner of police ThanePresident of the Sansthan Rajendra Kurade 45 who has his rehabilitation centre on the KalyanMurbad Road said In June an addict approached us for rehabilitation After we questioned the girl she revealed how more and more school and college students were becoming drug addicts with the girls taking to prostitution to fund the habitAlso read Jagraon rehabilitation centre becomes ray of hope for drug addictsAs a quick measure we approached the deputy commissioner of police Kalyan Dr Sanjay Shinde and discussed about the menace It happened to be antinarcotics week so we started awareness programmes in various schools and colleges and got a good response said Azam Shaikh president of the Anjuman FoundationShinde said awareness programmes were conducted in 90odd schools and colleges in Kalyan and Dombivli All were done in the last two months The programmes were conducted to reach out to the masses and alert parents Only police cant curb addiction we need the support of the public and parents he addedIts narcoterrorism first a youngster is lured into the addiction trap and later the money that keeps coming into this network is used for terror activities Its important for all of us to work together to deaddict youngsters and steer them towards educationA vicious circleKurade said he received more than 25 letters from addicted students seeking rehabilitation We got names of nearly 450 boys and girls who were victims of substance abuse The antihuman trafficking cell of Thane Crime Branch also visited the rehab centre to get details about the prostitution rings and those pushed into it he saidThe Disha Sansthans Nalini Patil and Anjumans Firdaus Shaikh are the counsellors who usually speak to the girls addicted to drugsShaikh said the sister of the Std IX dropout studies in a Kalyan college After we conducted a programme in her college she realised that her brother had been showing a lot of the symptoms of an addict and she approached us We got her brother admitted 20 days ago He said his addict friends used his bike to rob people near the MIDC Manpada area for money to buy drugs she addedRevealing there are many like the Bandra collegian forced into flesh trade Kurade said Girls photos are circulated on WhatsApp to solicit clients which include politicians and businessmen Teenage girls are high in demand and are paid Rs 5000 while the agent takes almost Rs 10000450Number of youngsters names got by the NGO90Schools and colleges in KalyanDombivli where awareness programmes were heldYou may also like to readHollywood celebs who overcame their difficult pasts