INCREASING RATE OF DRUG ABUSE IN BANGLADESH General HUDA VIDEO 1. Drug abuse is a gruesome menace in the society with grave biological, social, financial, psychological and security eff on the indls, families and the community. It is a curse of the modern free world and the scientific and tech civilization. The widespread abuse of drugs has become a human tragedy. In Bangladesh about 80 per cent of the drug addicts are adolescents and young men of 15 to 30 years of age. The spread of multiple drug use has aggravated the overall prob, pers and social days function, impairment of health, crime and other violent behaviour. 2. For the past two decades, Bangladesh has struggled to find an effective and sustainable solution to substance abuse, which has had deleterious effects on the country’s development. Severe drug addiction has affected the productivity of a major portion of its human resources, esp the youth. Govt measures to address the challenge primarily consist of