my inlaws turned sour upon my wifes insistence i decided to join the deaddiction centre he saidrecalling the death of his friends he said three of my friends have died of drugs the body of one was found in the fields now i look towards my children i want to give up addiction and live for them i know that it is a dangerous path i will either land up in jail or eventually die he saida 23yearold driver of the same area decided to quit on the insistence of his sister he was introduced to drugs when he was in class vii my friends introduced me to chitta seven years ago i was in class vii at the time and quit studies after passing class viii the chitta would give me a kick but the body would start aching and i would feel feverish after its impact started waning i knew that my money was being wasted the person who introduced me to drugs died and my sister motivated me to go for rehab he said a 22yearold woman from a village in ludhiana is among the patients here he father died a few years ago and her mother is in jail over a clash left alone she said that she came to jagraon and started living with a family their daughter was hooked to drugs and as i was feeling low she introduced me to chitta heroin i sold gold jewellery and money that i had got from parents to buy drugs she died of drug overdose about two years ago once a person is addicted to drugs they do not care if it will kill them she observed said the girl