Srinagar, Jan. 7 -- After terrorism, drugs are a major challenge to deal with in Jammu and Kashmir,deputy inspector general of police, north Kashmir, Maqsood-u-Zamansaid on Tuesday. Zaman said that drug trafficking and abuse is an emerging issue in J&K "After terrorism, drugs are our main challenge and J&K police is doing a commendable job to deal with that," he told reporters in north Kashmir. He said that decisive action has been taken in north Kashmir to control the menace. "We have recovered a considerable amount of substances and arrested and detained people under NDPS," he said. He said that the police need the support of people to control the phenomenon. "We can't achieve the desired goal till the common people provide us support," he said. "Police are arresting people, recovering substances and even attaching properties of drug peddlers but unless people support us, we can't achieve considerable success," he said. According to a pan Kashmir survey conducted in 2022-23 on the "Prevalence and pattern of substance use disorders in 10 districts of Kashmir", the valley has estimated 67,000 substance-dependent individuals with the majority of them addicted to heroin. htc...