Durgapur [West Bengal], July 30 (ANI): Loads of means are available to get high. From toothpaste, to shoe ink, Petrol to over-the-counter cough medicine or aerosol spray or even hand sanitizer – all of these things can get someone high. They all have addictive potential.
And Guess what? Condom now adds to the list.
In a rather weird way of getting high, some youths from West Bengal’s Durgapur are banking on Condoms as their preferred means of addiction.
Since past few days, the sale of flavored condoms has skyrocketed in various parts of Durgapur such as Durgapur City Centre, Bidhannagar, Benachiti, and Muchipara, C Zone, A Zone.
With the drastic growth in sales, questions have cropped up over this rather strange way of getting intoxicated. People in Durgapur are bewildered over the entire episode.
So what is going on?
There are claims that soaking condoms in water can product alcoholic substance. If this is true, Durgapur youths seem to have figured it out. Now they are exploiting this information to the fullest.
Dr Dhiman Mondal of Durgapur Sub Division Hospital has called for an investigation into this. He says that he is unable to comprehend how the latex compound of condoms can get reactive with water. However, he added, “Condoms contain aromatic compounds which may have been causing addiction among the youth.”
He expressed concerns over the entire trend in Durgapur and noted that this can lead to potential problems in youth.
Providing details of the ongoing menace, a shopkeeper Sujoy Chakraborty while quoting one of the buyers said, “Overnight soaking of condoms in hot water causes intoxication due to the breakdown of large organic molecules into alcoholic compounds.”
He also revealed that most of the buyers are male. However, females also come to get condoms to get intoxicated.
Another shopkeeper Malay Ghosh highlighted that the sales of condoms has spiked.
There could be multiple reasons why the youth are indulging in these kinds of ways to get dope. Most of these items are easily available. In most cases, it’s youth who try to get high with strange items. Most of the time, youth do not have the money for expensive drugs and thus the weird ways.
If money is the reason, it should be safe to say that this is not an isolated way of doing “Saste Nashe.” Condoms now just adds to the long list of already expolited options.
Drug use has changed dramatically over the last few decades. The landscape of drug use is becoming more and more cluttered. Drugs over time can become addictive. It is an inability to stop taking a substance or carrying out a particularly damaging behavior.
Keeping this in mind, it is not be forgotten that a person’s health is greatly affected by this kind of drug addiction. (ANI)
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