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2 Jus Corpus L.J. 1 (2021-2022)

handle is hein.journals/juscrp2 and id is 1 raw text is: Jus Corpus Law Journal Open Access Law Journal - Copyright © 2021 - ISSN 2582-7820 Editor-in-Chief - Prof. (Dr.) Rhishikesh Dave; Publisher - Ayush Pandey This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- Non-Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Drug Abuse and the Failure of the NDPS Act to Curb the Issue: A Socio-Legal Analysis Namisha Choudharya aRajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala, India Received 31 July 2021; Accepted 20 August 2021; Published 01 September 2021 Drug Abuse has been a serious menace in our society. Many people have been under the influence of drug abuse and are addicted to this. Even though there are a few drugs that hep in medication and there are specified quantities to consume yet drugs are abused. Drug abuse is not only illegal but also leaves a harmful effect on the mind and body. Young people are easily influenced by this, thereby invting an unending addiction. The NDPS Act lays provisions to curb drug abuse but these laws and provisions lack something and have therefore failed to do so. The object and purpose of the research study undertaken are to do a socio-legal analysis of the failure of the NDPS Act to curb drug abuse. Through this research, the researcher has aimed to answer questions such as What are the reasons for drug and substance abused? How has NDPS Act failed to curb drug abuse? What are the social and legal impacts of drug abuse? What are the ways which would be helpful in curbing the issue of drug abuse? etc. The research methodology adopted is a combination of primay and secondary research. For the purpose of primay research, a questionnaire survey was conducted through google forms. A total of '200' people took participated in the survey. Secondary research was done by anaysing books, journals, articles, reports, etc. The major emphasis was laid upon finding out the roots of the problem and finding out the failure of laws. Both the primary and secondary sources were scrutinized and after a thorough analysis, they were integrated. The emphasis laid is slighty more on the use of qualitative data than quantitative data. Legal Databases have been used in the process of research. The main limitation of this study is no use of primag data such as sample 1

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