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Dhaka Day by Day

Fancy for ’Dail’!

by Dipak Kumar Karmaker
Soclety can never be altogether free from drugs. People who are prone to drug, will man age one or the other by hook or by crook The only difference Is that sometimes this drug dominates while another some other time.
Even just the other day. herioin was the rage in our country One^stUI great >an>c it was for the guardians and what a great charm It had for the addicts Violent attempts were made to eradicate heroin from society and it gradually dissolved under the attempts. But what Is now dominating the domain of drug? It Is one with rather an Innocent and benevolent guise. It is Phcnsldyl.
Phenstdvi was orl-
ginally a syrup for cough and cold Hut thanks to its soporific quality, now people of almost all callings use It rampantly as an intoxicating drug. And as a drug. It has a few advantages over other drugs. Inasmuch as basically it is a medicine, one. while taking it. does not feel the guilt which normally accompanies drug-taking. Furthermore. It can give rise to nice feeling
But the greatest advantage is that II docs not give off smell for which the young people can easily throw dust in their guardians eyes. This drug, with its medicinal prestige, has been so popular that it is no more called by its original name, but by a pel-name — the Bengali dialect. Dall. As they say taking of Dall has to be followed by plenty of lea and cigarette, for otherwise It does not work. One bottle does for three or four neophytes while for those who are used to it. one requires one full bottle. One bottle of Dall may cost fifty to seventy Taka. It may be remembered that this item was banned long before. But that means nothing. One craves for a bottle of Dail and the seller supplies it. The former derives pleasure and the latter is benefltted: Is there anything wrong ? — all's right with the world. Il seems that normal medicines may sometimes run short, but Dail can never
There is no room for doubt about the effectiveness of the drug. This will be clear from the following instance. One of my friends, who is not an addict, recently took Dial at the Instance of his addict friends Consequently he felt very high, sang and felt like dancing. Bui the actual power of Dall he felt the very next day He, for the next three days, suffered from a tenacious
constipation. He drank milk and took other kinds of purgatives, but to no effect. Nothing could match the strength of Dail. And my friend cannot forget
| Dail, for . as is obvt ous, the latter Inci dent.
Those who want ’ to maintain that I’hensldyl is comparatively innocuous, unwillingly admit that It has a few dis advantages. It tells upon kidney making one to a great extent vulnerable to jaun dice As one takes It. one frequently feels
the discomfort of dry lips Above all II cats Into vitality leasing the victim all skin and bone. One who has once got addicted to it. meets with var lous complications, both psychic and somatic, as he gives it up. And this list could be quite size able.
It is often said that only the frustrated people lake recourse to drugs. Hut It is. as a matter of fact, the other way round. Those who arc really frustrated in life, try to compensate for the loss, while people who want to enjoy the life In toto but have not the necessary push, seize upon the cheaper ways of life. Interestingly enough, such frivolous people become very melancholic as they take drug. They seem to derive a masochistic pleasure In humbling themselves.
Lovers, whether of Dall or other drugs, usu ally defined themselves by arguing that many great men used to take drug or that many great things of the world were the direct result of the use of drug. The addicts usually refer to a few commonmen who were great but addict. It is a great pity that Shakespeare or Tagore did not lake drugs al least to supply the addicts with more points of reference at hand. However, It Is evident on the face of it that coleridge was not great by virtue of opium — genius is ten per cent inspiration and ninety per cent persplra lion". Drug can induce neither inspiration nor perspiration, but indolence only.