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Drug abuse is an age old phenomenon traditionally viewed as a form of victimless crime as drug abusers often face stigmatization from the society and the legal structures which in turn impacts their welfare and health. In India, Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, (NDPS) 1985 criminalizes trafficking, storage and consumption of drugs making the drug abuser a victim to the drug and an offender against law. This paper plans to counter this by featuring the burdens of criminalization of medication abusers and weights on an elective remain of review them as survivors of medication misuse. It additionally plans to concentrate on restoration of the casualties of medication maltreatment as a path towards "request decrease" of medications with the assistance of the law authorization organization for example the police as likewise imagined by the NDPS demonstration. The paper crosses the criminological hypotheses from mental to discerning decision and supports the contention with a continuous intercession model of the law authorization organizations with network, casualties and guilty parties.