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Rehab After Ruin: Policy Follows Addiction Instead of Preventing It
Formalising drug rehabilitation centres in Jammu and Kashmir is a policy step, but a policy that arrives after a crisis has already scaled is not governance. It is recovery management dressed as reform. Substance abuse in the region has not emerged suddenly. Law enforcement agencies have recorded repeated narcotics seizures over consecutive years. Health institutions report a sustained rise in addiction cases, concentrated heavily among youth. These are not isolated incidents; they are indicators of a supply chain operating with structural consistency and geographic reach.
The current regulatory response addresses consequence, not cause. Expanding rehabilitation capacity without simultaneously dismantling trafficking networks, tightening cross-border flow mechanisms, and disrupting local distribution infrastructure risks institutionalising the cycle itself. Addiction grows. The state responds. The pipeline remains intact.
A credible counter-narcotics framework demands parallel tracks supply-side enforcement with measurable disruption targets, intelligence-led interdiction, and community-level prevention investment, not rehabilitation alone. Treatment is essential. It is not sufficient.
The real metric of policy success is not the number of patients treated. It is the reduction in patients who need treatment in the first place. A state that builds more rehab centres than it dismantles supply routes has confused the symptom for the disease.
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