Police personnel in the district conducted awareness campaigns to students of government schools in the district on drug abuse on Tuesday.
Teams of police personnel visited government schools and explained to the students the hazards of using narcotic substances and drugs and their harmful effects. The initiative was carried out on the instruction of the Superintendent of Police, Perambalur.
A police press release said the law enforcers were conducting such awareness campaigns among people on the need to completely eliminate banned tobacco substances in the district.