The Chakan centre of Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan founded/mentored by His Holiness Ashutosh Maharaj ji under its Drug Abuse Eradication Program [Bodh] in Maharashtra has organized a one day workshop for youth at Monika Hotel, Nanekar vadi road at Chakan along with a 3 hour painting session for children at Swapn Nagri Garden in order to alarm them against the experimentation of drugs be it in any form, tobacco, opium, heroine, suparis, hukaah etc. The journey from experimentation to addiction was extensively highlighted and discussed at length for getting the nuances of the problem registered in the minds of the participants.
Started with an introduction of the organization and the participants, the workshop was furthered with various demonstrations, activities and videos were also screened during the course of the workshop by the disciple of His Holiness Ashutosh Maharaj ji, Swami Chidanand Ji - the organisation's state coordinator of Maharashtra and also the moderator of the workshop. He stated, “It is very important to lay the Emphasis on the fact that the endemic issue of drug abuse is not an isolated problem and spunks more, the moment an angle of economics gets associated with it”.
Various case studies were also shown in order to throw light on “how the sellers are becoming the sufferers and sufferers are eventually the sellers or traffickers of this ‘death on wheels’ substances like tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, heroin, LSD and many more. Therefore, along with the intention to decrease the supply side of these substances, emphasis should be laid more on the pattern of its usage.
