Drug addiction on the rise among students in Visakhapatnam
The Hindu
Parents, kin should look out for behavioural changes, say experts
The use of narcotics, injected drugs and ganja is on the rise in Visakhapatnam city. The unfortunate part is that young students are getting addicted, but it is being too late by the time, their parents come of know of it.
It’s for the parents and other family members to look out for behavioural changes in their children, particularly college-going students, who are vulnerable to such influences and try to assess their mental condition apart from seeking professional help at the earliest. Timely intervention can save lives.
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When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.