Punjab parents chain their son to stop him doing drugs
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Chandigarh: His parents know better than freeing him up.
Because, the young man will quickly find ways to do drugs again by stealing something from the house.
They have no choice but retrain him with a chain to a charpai—kind of a string cot.
The man who is getting de-addiction treatment, has been in chains for the past eight days.
The footage from Punjab's Moga district was viral showing the dazed drug addict in chains.
NDTV quoted his mother as saying the man needs drug shots worth ₹ 800 every day.
This has been happening for the past five-six years, she added.
His parents are labourers who eke out on odd jobs, while the 23-year-old spent all his money he earned as a wage labourer on drugs.
When he ran out money, he would steal items from the house and physically assault us if he didn't get money, according to the mother.
The family has no choice but keep everything out of reach for him, keeping them under lock and key.
The mother would sometimes unfasten the chain to get him fetch fodder for cattle.
As drugs are easy to find in the village, she appealed the government to stop the menace.
Punjab has long been struggling with drug problem often seizing stuff worth crores of rupees, according to the report.