addiction

Being a member for over 4 years, I found the site[SPN] very interesting and educative both in terms of Gurbani and allied areas like sikhism. My main interest is in Gurbani and sikhism. Some of the doubts have been clarified and some do exist at present. I visit the site daily, may be, four...

Akal Takht jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh expressed concern over drug addiction among the Sikh youth and the use of unfair means during examinations in schools and colleges. "Drugs, liquor and copying have become the main hurdles in the progress of the Sikh community. We have always been a...

Punjab to fight drug addiction jointly with Art of Living Saturday, 20 October 2012 16:40 - Monika Malik - Chandigarh The Punjab Government will soon launch a joint venture with the Art of Living Foundation — a non-Government organisation — for helping the Punjabis to get rid of drug...

Sat Sri Akal, I belong to a very religious Sikh family, and I am a mother of an 18 year old son who has been abusing alcohol & drugs for the past 3 years. My husband and I have tried to help him but unfortunately we have had no success in our efforts to stop him from using drugs & alcohol...

To give a message to create awareness for Drug problem existing in every society first ever in the world " Drug Awareness Walk Across Canada" started on April 1st 2011 from St John NFLD to finish Mid- November in Victoria BC. Team leader and DAFC founder Balwinder Singh Kahlon is joined at...

The sample of home-made alcohol was warm and it burned with a blue flame when Jas Sandhu’s father used a lighter to test it for purity. Back in the Punjab region of India, where Sandhu’s father came from, the home-distilled booze called desi-sharab was also called daru, or medicine, by...

Youth drug addiction crisis ravages Punjab's heartlands By Rahul Bedi - 4:00 AM Thursday Jun 17, 2010 India's northern Punjab province is on the verge of a crisis as large numbers of its youth are hooked hopelessly on to drugs such as opium, heroin and a range of synthetic painkillers...

Drug addiction spreads by Gobind Thukral Three decades ago we visited the inner Malwa area of Punjab to find out the level of drug addiction. We heard shocking tales of how youth were getting hooked to opium, bhuki and narcotics. Worse, pharmaceutical combinations meant to treat diseases were...

Good day ‘citizens’ of SPN, There is something about a conversation that is much more harmonious than an Internet conversation. We hardly participate in descriptive writing when we are trying to write a post quickly. Body language, touch and tone/frequency of the message are all lost over an...