From stinking body to gorgeous diva, turning frowning eyes into a happy one, it took a good time for Siddhi to get out of drug addiction. Siddhi who is just 21 now, fell prey to addiction three years ago. She got addicted after an incident when her cousin once told her to taste opium out of curiosity. It was earlier an occasional thing then became a habit. Her cousin made her fall into this addiction out of revenge, he died but her life became hell. (Name of Girl is changed)
While talking her pain out, she says, “I lost my mother due to these drugs and people who used to curse my mother for my condition. Relatives used to tell my mother that there is a fault in her values and upbringing that I become a drug addict. But it was not her fault at all. It is all her prayers that today I am out of it but she is not around.”
At such tender age, her father gets her admitted to Govt drug de-addiction centre of Sangrur and She eventually started participating in Red Cross Society’s initiated De-Addiction Programs. Now, Siddhi is pursuing her Graduation through a correspondence program at Punjabi University. She is running a successful beauty parlour and also trains people in practising yoga.
Like Siddhi, there is the story of Harvinder Singh, a married man who was once got to be steeped in drugs. While talking to The Daily Guardian, Harvinder exhorts, “ A person who takes drugs, his personality is changed. He can’t help himself to get out of it. It is for his relatives to help him out and get him out of it. My family supported me and the Red Cross Society of Sangrur who taught me to be inclined towards spiritualism helped me get off that turmoil.” (Harvinder is an imaginary name as requested anonymity)
Harvinder from Sangrur participated in Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh’s program where Harvinder spoke about his journey.
Our programs by Red Cross Society have been able to rehabilitate more than 400 youngsters till now. We give them yoga classes, motivational talks, treatment, and many such programs and family sort of atmosphere help them all to break the shell of drug that they have been in for a long time, exhorts Anmol Singh Dhaliwal, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Sangrur.