Readers’ Forum

Say a bold ‘NO’ to all drugs

Being influenced by friends or out of curiosity to taste the drug, the youngsters gradually become drug dependent. Drug addiction is a deadly social malady. This intense dependency can surely destroy a person’s personality, professional career, and may lead to suicidal decisions. Human life is full of variety, uncertainty, and surprises as well. There might be various troubles in life. However, fetching drugs is-in no way a solution to any problems. This awful drug must not be an option for anyone to ease the momentary suffering.
All the apparently innocuous gateway drugs like-sleeping pills, painkillers,andmild alcohol should strictly be proscribed. As we know, very few people can halt taking drugs after being habituated with them quite a few times. At one stage they start taking powerful dosage of drugs because of euphoric sensation.
So, we have to possess the ethical ability to say a bold-‘NO’ to all varieties of the drug. Anyhow, we must keep ourselves escaped from drugs and deal with this toxic addiction by applying our wisdom and reasonableness. We have to keep in mind that we have an immense power to turn around at this young age. After all a comprehensive form of practical, social, and emotional awareness is holistically imperative to prevent drug addiction.

Wares Ali Khan
Rangpur City

Caring Teenage Children
 
Our beloved kids have been experiencing the prolonged school postponement. This grim situation has forcefully affected them by shifting their daily schedule, working fixtures, and turning them addicted to screen as an alternative means to cope up with the lengthy leisure. This stagnant circumstance has conveyed impacts on molding them socio-psychologically and intellectually vulnerable.
Kids are more prone to hazards bound up to their teenage sensation. An uncultured, stunted, and an idle mind is a much greater destructive force. They need to be away from all varieties of negative feelings, focus and stress. So, respective parents need to listen to their adolescent school kids with patience, give priority to their needs, and provide possible comfort.
By the way, sustaining an open mode of communication with the adolescent kids in respect of their core needs will render them relief and feel them secured.

Kamrun Nahar Keya
Narsingdi