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Fight against
drug abuse!
A call by a
sixteen-year-old girl
Noora
11/04/2005-Drug
addiction, a universally concerned issue is now becoming one
of the top most ruining factors of our nation. The fact that a
large part of our population, specially the youth being hugely
hooked on the abusive consumption of drugs has made it an
issue in to which we need to give relative practical
importance. We need to find a way to save our future, by
providing our youngsters with means to fight against this life
threatening addiction.
 There
is a lot that can be done. First of all, ways to stop these
drugs being brought in to our nation must be found. For this
we need to establish a proper form of security both at sea and
at the airports. No matter how supreme a person is, or how
high his position within the world is, whoever comes into our
nation need to pass through these security formalities.
Everyone needs to understand that passing through these
formalities does not mean that they are being regarded as
someone who might turn out to be disloyal. It should simply be
seen as a measure to maintain peace and prosperity within the
nation.
People fighting for power and wealth will do anything to get
what they want. There first target becomes the innocent
teenagers of our nation. Teen age is a time in life when
issues of independence and conflicting ideas rise among
parents and their children. At a time like this when these
teenagers feel let down at every point in life, and if a
strong addictive drug becomes a peer supporter than there is
little that can be done. To prevent this from happening
parents need to support their children at this critical stage
in life. It’s true that peer pressure plays a great role in
what children do. But when it comes to moral issues children
are strongly influenced by their parents. By involving
children in proper conversations, giving them and their ideas
a chance to prove themselves, and accepting their developing
social skills will certainly give them the feeling of being
generally accepted as someone important. At the same time
rather than mandating rules on children, including them in
discussions of some rules can help them in learning to work
through problems and arrive at solution that may involve
compromise. This will teach them to make the right decision in
life, whatever obstacle that they come across.
Standing at high stage of development, relative importance is
given to former education of all children. As a result every
year more than 3000 students finish their ordinary level of
education, and take a step further in to their future. The
problem is that all those finishing school at this stage are
not being given equal opportunities to move successfully in to
their future. Unless one moves in to higher studies most of
these students are left with nothing to do. They are not
provided with enough opportunities, either at work or at
studies and often remain idle. This undoubtedly pushes them in
to wrong doings where they come across fascinating subjects as
that of using drugs. Why not this be prevented by making sure
that each and everyone leaving school is being guided in to
the right path either by giving them training to do something
useful or by financially supporting them to achieve what they
want in life. This will surely not be a great cost if it
preserves today’s successful youth for tomorrow’s betterment.
Initial measures can be taken to prevent newcomers in to being
drug addicts. But when it comes to those already engaged in
this never ending torture, professional assistance should be
given to help them move out of what they are going through.
Medical and psychological support followed by proper
rehabilitation is very important. Drug addiction is not as
simple as it sounds, and can lead to a lot of social and
economic problems if proper attention is not given in the
early stages.
Even though rehabilitation is given to drug addicts to a
certain extent in Maldives it is quite obvious that what is
being done is not that effective. So the time has come for
better techniques to be used in rehabilitating the drug
addicts before the whole of our nation suffers the side
effects of what these addicts are going through.
Using drugs is seen as an illegal act in Islam. It thereby is
necessary for all wrongdoers to be punished for what they do.
When a drug abuser is punished for what he has done it is
indeed necessary that they serve their sentence or at least a
major part of it. If they are being given freedom or even if
there sentence is forgiven before they even have to face the
consequences of what they had done then there is no hope of
such acts declining in the future. So let all drug abusers be
punished accordingly, for it is a hope in each and every mind
to save there people from being wrongdoers.
Let us be one of those who reach out to give a helping hand,
so that we can save our nation, our people and our future from
being lost in the darkness of life. May God give us the power
to fight against enemies as that of drugs so that we can save
our loved ones, and guide them in to the right path.
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