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Elections 2019
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Elections 2019: Punjab Youth in Jaws of Drug Addiction

NewsClick team travelled to Jainpur village in Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar, which reportedly lost 19 lives to drug abuse in a single year. This is their story of anguish and pain.
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19 May 2019

Drugs is no longer just a word in Punjab. Drugs mean despair. It means a disaster, which has destroyed the young generation of the state to an extent that their return to normalcy is now a distant dream. Both the parties, Congress and Akali Dal, who have been ruling the state, share the blame for it. NewsClick team travelled to Jainpur village in Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar, which reportedly lost 19 lives to drug abuse in a single year. This is their story of anguish and pain.

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