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Drug abuse is some form or other is a universal phenomenon. India is also not an exception. The traditional drugs of abuse in India have been herbal Cannabis and Opium which were available in restricted quantities from licensed shop till recently. As long as drug addiction was confined to certain types of individuals and the problem was managed by the informal mechanism of social control. But the situation has changed dramatically in last two decades because of the steady increase in the clandestine demands for hard drugs like Heroin and Concentrated Cannabis in the affluent Western Countries which have led to the development of illicit conversion of opium into Heroin in the clandestine laboratories in �Golden Triangle� and �Golden Crescent�. Various conventions were held being The Hague Convention Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, 1988 held only with the objectives to combat with the problem of drug abuse in the world and to suggest necessary measures and guidelines to control the same but still the results which were expected in international sphere have not come and drug trafficking problem is still going on which has caused great loss to the public particularly the youth.