From the Editor
The increasing interest in mental health in recent years and the knowledge that certain drugs can stimulate, depress, or modify the state of mind has led to much publicity on the subject.
Some young people, and also some of the older generation worldwide, with a desire to experiment, to
alleviate boredom, or to burn the candle at both ends are intrigued to try out drugs without their knowing fully the long term effects the drugs will have on the human brain and body.
Medical research cannot as yet supply all the answers, although investigations are being carried out in many countries and in recent years in our country.
From a long past, nicotine, caffeine, alcohol,
marijuana have been used by the young and old as a drug. With the passage of time, LSD, which is a hallucinogenic substance, as well as the far more
dangerous addictive hard drugs, morphine, heroin and cocaine are now available even on the streets of Dhaka as fabulous profits acquire from them.
Our cover story this week is on Drug Abuse. Drug abuse is largely destroying our youth force.
Even the poorer people in our society have had recourse to drugs to reduce the takers concern for
anxieties. This also reduces the desire to make any effort to work, to feed, or decently care for himself or his surroundings.
The medical as well as the social aspects of this problem in our society as also worldwide, have to be focused upon.
