SHILLONG, June 26 -- Meghalaya Additional Chief Secretary, Social Welfare Department, H Marwein, has stressed that drug abuse or drug addiction is a psychiatric, social and psychological problem that not only affects the youth but the society as a whole.Drugs ruin the individuals and the society manifold- socially, physically, culturally, emotionally and economically, he said while speaking as the chief guest at a programme organized by the Meghalaya AIDS Control Society (MACS) in partnership with Voluntary Health Association of Meghalaya (VHAM), Manbha Foundation and other related stakeholders to observe the International Day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking on Wednesday at Don Bosco Youth Centre.

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