DRUG ABUSE LAWS IN INDIA AND USA– A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Introduction
Drug abuse is a severecommunal problem that is growing and an ever increasing number of youth
becoming addicted by it. The smuggling and illegal trafficking of narcotic drugs and psychotropic
substances into India have led to drug addiction amongample section of the community, particularly
the adolescents has assumed serious and alarming magnitudes in the recent years. Drugs have
numerous impacts as it may control the body and mind of individual consumers, the drug crop and
drug cartels may control farmers, illicit trafficking and related crime may control communities thus
undermining sustainable human development. Drugs affect all sectors of society; in particular, the
young people.1Physically the most major impact of drug abuse is on the communication system of the
human brain, which inevitably affects every other aspect of life of the person addicted. They disturb
the ways in which nerve cells send, process and receive information.In light of this statutory control
over narcotic drugs are exercised in form of international as well as national regulations.