Youth's Blog

 As so often happens, the word “racism” triggered angry responses. “How can you say ‘racism’ when we don’t even know what happened?” Let me try to explain. Racism is more than what is in the heart of an individual person at the moment of a particular act. Racism is the cumulative history of all those thoughts and acts. They add up to a pattern in which people of color are routinely and systematically treated differently than white people. Unfair racial stereotypes have taken root in the hearts of people. They cause us to react to people differently—in stores, on the streets, in encounters between police and citizens. They even affect the way we describe violence and destruction of property. Young white men smashing windows, overturning cars, and battling police after a big athletic event are “revelers,” “out of control fans.” But a group of mostly African American youth who do similar things out of sorrow and rage that a young black man has died in police custody are dangerous “thu...

  Can addiction be treated successfully? Yes,  addiction is a treatable disorder. Research on the science of addiction and the treatment of substance use disorders has led to the development of research-based methods that help people to stop using drugs and resume productive lives, also known as being in  recovery.  Can addiction be cured? Like other chronic diseases such as heart disease or asthma, treatment for drug addiction usually isn't a cure.  But addiction  can  be managed successfully .  Treatment enables people to counteract addiction's disruptive effects on their brain and behavior and regain control of their lives .   These images showing the density of dopamine transporters in the brain illustrate the brain's remarkable ability to recover, at least in part, after a long abstinence from drugs—in this case, methamphetamine.   Does relapse to drug use mean treatment   has failed? No.  The chronic nature of addict...

Hunger Crises Forces Even Middle-Class Indians To Line Up For Rations NAFISA lost her four-months-old baby to hunger.    Chanchal Devi’s three children haven’t tasted milk for almost a year Kesariya lost her son . Hunger and helplessness pushed the young man to take his own life . Her family was without food for weeks with no aid in sight . The hunger crisis is widespread and engulfing both India’s rural hinterland and urban areas alike. There are millions who cannot feed their families and the coronavirus has only exacerbated an already existing hunger problem in the country Family which are  two wage earners with some savings, living in rented accommodation — are among legions of Indians who saw their  economic toehold  ripped away in lockdowns over the last 12 months. More than 15  million  Indians lost their jobs in May alone at the height of a devastating wave that overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums, according to the Centre for Monit...