Peer pressures, sibling bonding lead children to fall prey to drugs

(Please note this is information gathered when I was in Nepal a year ago)

A small group of youngsters gather in a small corner, away from the hustle and bustle of the crowd in Dillibazar. They pass a packet and a bottle among themselves. All of them pop in a small tablet and gulp it down with alcohol.

Suddenly the appearance of a boy hushes the group. The boy comes straight to his brother and asks him to come home. Instead, the elder one persuades his sibling to join the group and imitate the seniors.

"My brother told it was fun to have the tablet so I tried it out," said 13-year-old Sanjiv Ghimire, after taking a tablet. When he talked to me he was already under the influence of the drug, and was having a "kind of weird feeling"

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