{"id":27959,"date":"2018-10-23T17:19:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27959"},"modified":"2018-10-23T17:19:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:49:52","slug":"studies-point-to-rising-drug-abuse-among-women-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/studies-point-to-rising-drug-abuse-among-women-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Studies point to rising drug abuse among women in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/studies-point-to-rising-drug-abuse-among-women-in-punjab\/article24671704.ece\">Studies point to rising drug abuse among women in Punjab<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The problem of drug abuse among women is increasing in Punjab, according to the studies in Punjab.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>2. The recent study titled \u2018Epidemiology of Substance Use and Dependence in the State of Punjab\u2019, by the faculty of PGIMER, pointed out the following\u00a0 facts: <\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of women addicted to drugs is rising \u201calarmingly\u201d in the State.<\/li>\n<li>According to experts, social stigma, state of denial and lack of exclusive facilities are the key reasons why women are not coming forward for treatment.<\/li>\n<li>The state government has been providing various treatment options for the youth, especially to males.<\/li>\n<li>Punjab has 31 government de-addiction centres but there\u2019s only onecentre exclusively for women- in Kapurthala, set up in 2017.<\/li>\n<li>In Punjab almost 4.1 million people have been found to be using one substance or the other (licit or illicit) at least once in their lifetime.<\/li>\n<li>Among the lifetime users, 4 million were men and around 0.1 million were women.<\/li>\n<li>Number of people dependent on any substance in their lifetime was 3.2 million, with 3.1 million men and 0.1 million women.<\/li>\n<li>Licit substances consist of alcohol and tobacco, and illicit substances are opioids, cannabinoids, inhalants, stimulants, and sedatives.<\/li>\n<li>There were about 4.1 million lifetime users of licit substances and for illicit substances, the corresponding figure was 0.5 million.<\/li>\n<li>Opioids (heroin, smack, crude opium, poppy husk etc) were by far the most commonly used illicit drugs in the State.<\/li>\n<li>Around 2, 02,817 males and 10,658 females were found to be \u2018lifetime dependent\u2019 on opioids as per ICD-10 criteria.<\/li>\n<li>While, 1, 56,942 males were found to be \u2018currently dependent\u2019 on opioids (as per ICD-10 criteria) the figure of females was 10,658.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>3. Punjab Opioid Dependence Survey (PODS), 2014-15, which exclusively focussed on opioid dependence pointed out that: <\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Found 1% of females to be opioid dependants.<\/li>\n<li>The data was collected from a total of 3,620 opioid-dependent individuals across 10 districts<\/li>\n<li>The two main reasons for this seem to be social stigma and lack of exclusive facilities for females.<\/li>\n<li>The Navjivan rehabilitation centre at Daulatpur in Patiala, has been witnessing an increase in queries on treatment of female drug addicts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4. Another study on Punjab, conducted by The Institute for Development and Communication (2001), which covered eight districts of Punjab had revealed that consumption of poppy husk (<em>bhukki<\/em>), tablets and capsules were most popular amongst women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studies point to rising drug abuse among women in Punjab News: The problem of drug abuse among women is increasing in Punjab, according to the studies in Punjab. Important facts: 2. The recent study titled \u2018Epidemiology of Substance Use and Dependence in the State of Punjab\u2019, by the faculty of PGIMER, pointed out the following\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/studies-point-to-rising-drug-abuse-among-women-in-punjab\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Studies point to rising drug abuse among women in Punjab<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703225111},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}