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Anti-vaping campaign launched, to focus on adverse effects of addiction
A campaign has been launched to curtail the practice of vaping among adolescents and to recommend effective solutions, with experts seeking impactful communication to highlight its adverse effect. Experts from various fields such as sports, bureaucracy, armed forces and child welfare have joined the campaign 'Freedom For Our Future' by think-tank Think Change Forum. The experts have urged the government to initiate awareness campaigns against vaping through various public media platforms, mirroring the impactful anti-smoking advertisements. Sanjoy Roy, Managing Director of Teamwork Arts, Founder Trustee Salam Balak Trust said, Just as graphic anti-smoking advertisements are shown in movie halls, we need similar impactful communication against vaping." "These advertisements should depict the potential harm to a person's lungs and overall health, and strive to make vaping uncool. The need of the moment is for government to launch an anti-vaping advertising campaign," Roy said. Deepa
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The addiction stigma
It is worth thinking about the deeper reasons that make people depend, often against their wishes, upon substances that ruin their health and their relationships
Addiction neither cool, nor style statement, says PM Narendra Modi
On the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for realising the vision of a drugs-free India
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Treating pain without feeding addiction
Patients keep pleading for opioids like Vicodin and Percocet, the potent drugs that can help chronic pain, but in turn fuels an epidemic of addiction and deadly overdoses