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  • 40 per cent of Punjab's youth, in the 15-25 age group, are addicted to narcotics

  • 48 per cent farmers and labourers abuse drugs

  • Doaba and Majha regions are worst hit. On an average, 65 per cent homes have at least one addict.

  • Heroin, brown sugar, opium, morphine, pethidine and proxyvon easily available in villages
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