Isolation, mental instability and anger took over, and she could hardly speak her children’s cries.  ,
” I ( was ) losing myself to the drugs”, she said. ” That’s when I told myself: I’ve got to stop, but how” ? ,
Her decade-long addiction did n’t fully resurface until she was detained at a roadblock and given a year in prison.  ,
” I was in denial”, she said. ” But the moment the officer handed me my uniform, it struck me- I was going to be in ( prison ) for a year” . ,
The Central Narcotics Bureau’s yearly report earlier this year showed , more adult drug abusers being arrested in 2023, with the range rising 11 per share from 408 to 454. They now account for 15 % of all drug offenders who have been detained.